When you are 17, it's tough to figure out who you are and for Felix Love, this has been made even harder being transgender and black.

All Felix wants to do is fall in love, be loved in return and get a scholarship into Browns University...is everything he wants actually that far out of reach?

An emotional and entertaining young adult drama set in New York art college, dealing with important issues of identity, self love, social media, bullying, jealousy and judgement.

Felix is a great character, showing us how to learn from our mistakes and grow instead of letting bad, negative experiences control our lives.

Mrs C Elliott

I felt slightly guilty reading this book!

I normally read books that have just been released or that are new to the library and although this has indeed just come out, it is the last part of a trilogy so it isn’t anything that new to bring to you, I’m sorry.

However, in my defence ( I’m talking directly to Miss Hogben now) the very fact that I had to read this book on it’s publication day shows just how much I enjoyed the previous books and how I couldn’t wait to see how the story ended.

I loved this series (based on a retelling of Beauty and the Beast) and the last instalment didn’t disappoint me. It’s fairly typical, traditional, romantic fantasy and so easy to read that you just seem to open the pages and story is right there in your head.

An easy to follow but yet interesting plot and impossibly perfect leading men that you can’t help falling in love with yourself.

Miss Hogben has previously written about the benefits of reading for pleasure and this couldn’t fit the bill better for me if it tried, reading for pleasure 2.0!!

Mrs Elliott

This author writes many young adult novels and although this one is actually a senior fiction book (so for students in Year 11 and above) it would be suitable for enthusiastic Year 9 + readers, with permission from home.

I loved this story, it's very immersive and although a slow burner has a real mesmerising quality. Even when I wasn't reading it, I felt that half of myself was within it's pages and couldn't wait to get back into it!

Addie is unsatisfied with her small life as a village maid in France during the 1700's. She wants to escape the boredom of marriage, motherhood and chores and longs to experience all that life has to offer. She makes a deal with an 'old god' (the devil?) to be free but finds that she has been tricked and cursed to an eternal life, where she is forgotten by everyone she meets. Until, after 300 years, she hears the words 'I remember you...'

Although historical events are touched upon, this book is more a character study and makes us think about how important it is to have a purpose in life and how we crave to be needed and loved by others.

As I said, it can be slow at times but I assume that style was intentional, used to illustrate Addie's long, lonely life and I thought it suited the story well.

I loved the beautiful writing, the characters, the romance and especially the ending!

Mrs C Elliott