📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Ophelia After All
AUTHOR: Racquel Marie @blonde_with_a_book
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: February 8, 2022
The Review 📚 Ophelia After All
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- The beautiful flowers really attracted me to this cover and I heard so many cute things about it. Thanks to @netgalley and Feiwel and Friends for allowing me to read this book ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- This book was a cute and touching look at the journey of self exploration. Ophelia likes boys, but also finds herself liking a girl. This brings about a lot of questions about who she is and if her family and friends can accept her new identity. But her journey includes her friend group and their identities as well. The way these friends come together is amazing.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- This was a snapshot in an important time in Ophelia’s life and I would have liked to see more of the community together. But this is not a typical or formulaic romance and I loved that!
🚦 My face at the end: 🥰
💬 The Narrator:
- Maria Liastis narrated the audio book and she was very clear and pleasant to listen to.
💭 4 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Hamlet
- 2. Roses
- 3. Latin Culture
- 4. Sexual identity
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Ophelia is about to graduate, but she starts to wonder if she even knows herself.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 Ophelia After All
A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All, a hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by author Racquel Marie.
Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys – way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless stream of crushes, but Ophelia is a romantic at heart. She couldn’t change, even if she wanted to.
So when she finds herself thinking more about cute, quiet Talia Sanchez than the loss of a perfect prom with her ex-boyfriend, seeds of doubt take root in Ophelia’s firm image of herself. Add to that the impending end of high school and the fracturing of her once-solid friend group, and things are spiraling a little out of control. But the course of love–and sexuality–never did run smooth. As her secrets begin to unravel, Ophelia must make a choice between clinging to the fantasy version of herself she’s always imagined or upending everyone’s expectations to rediscover who she really is, after all.