Felix Ever After

De: Kacen Callender

Narrado por: Logan Rozos

A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.

Felix Love has never been in love — and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many — Black, queer, and transgender — to ever get his own happily-ever-after.

When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages — after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned — Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi-love triangle....

But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.

Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve.

"Felix is attending an ultracompetitive arts summer program to have a better shot at a full scholarship to Brown when someone posts Felix’s dead name beside photos of him, pre-transition, in the school’s lobby. Felix’s plot to get revenge throws him onto the path of love and self-discovery." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")

©2020 Kacen Callender (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

Cliche Ever After (But Still Worth a Listen!)

Small spoilers!

This really is a great coming of age type story.

Transgender Felix deals with his own personal identify crisis, while being outed with his birth identity to his whole school, all while desperately wanting to fall in love... never realizing his best friend is secretly pining for him.

The two friends do weird things. Like snuggle up in bed together. And I'm not talking about sharing a bed with your bestie. This is full on tangle of limbs, we can't even tell who the big spoon or the little spoon is anymore type of snuggling. This is when they are just "friends".

I don't know. The idea of that friendship turning in to something more is what bothered me most about the book. Too cliche for a story that really had a promising plot.

Definitely worth a listen, extremely well narrated by Logan Rozos, and well written as well. The audio production had a few errors that I noticed of lines being repeated. Now the author wrote many lines in the book to be repeated, but the production had them repeated in a way that was clearly not the intent. That took me out of the story at those moments because I had to rewind to see if I had just stopped paying attention or there really were errors!

Listen now!

I loved this book! It's a great coming of age, love, and finding one's self journey. I love reading stories that I can relate to in a less abstract way. Its not a fantasy but a story of how life is and being a teenager is hard. Add on everything Felix is dealing with and wow! Everyone should read this story rather they are in the LGBTQI+ community or not.

Powerful LGBT Story

I loved this book! The narrator was fantastic. It is such an important story. Love.

Love it

I loved listening to this book about Felix figuring out who he is & how to discover what love feels like.

Perfectly imperfect: lucky & Happy

I suggested this book for book club for Pride month. I’m so glad we chose it. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and it was a great learning experience for me. No greater way to say love is love.
Wonderfully narrated as well.

The beginning of the book I was like I’m not sure I’d like it

The beginning of the book I was not sure I would like it by the middle of the book it started to get juicy and overall I thought it was great I kinda had a Felix experience as a high school trans person and my story was kinda like his

Amazing, empowering story!

I absolutely loved the story. The narrator was amazing, the way they managed to bring forward all the emotions that Felix was experiencing, the different tones and voices they did for all the characters. This is exactly was an audiobook is supposed to be like. I'm really glad it was read by them. ❤

Absolutely amazing LOVE!

Felix Ever After has been an inspiring story for all the trans and non-binary youth out there. Especially for the Black trans youth to see themselves in this inspiring book about discovering truths about yourself and realizing that you deserve love. Absolutely loved every minute.

Sincere, beautiful, and full of love!

The further in the book I got, I slower I wanted to listen, so it won't end. The narration is perfect as well!
I loved the depth in which the story is told. I felt I was in his head. Going through this piece of his life with him ❤️

Romantic in a High School Way

When I read the brief blurb about this book, I thought it would be about Felix with one other person that he'd fall in love with, but it's actually more about a love triangle. I was actually rooting for the one he didn't end up with, but all of the characters had great character development. You get a sense that the main characters deserve a happy ending.