Gwen and Art Are Not in Love: ‘An outrageously entertaining take on the fake dating trope’

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this placed a heavy emphasis on accepting yourself, rather than focusing on everyone else's expectations and standards, and it makes me really, really happy to see themes like this in books for queer youth! only after a night of revealed secrets, the begrudged pair find they have more in common than they thought and decide to become allies instead. They didn't feel like the story was progressing at each meeting - it was more like reading a glimpse into a diary entry to one said part of their life and then we don't get any immediate follow-up to it, jumping right into the other character's situation. Perhaps it was intentional to be as ambiguous as possible about the world-building, but it just left room for me to contemplate that I might in fact be reading a story set in modern times, acting as if they were living in the past. following gwen who has to deal with how people see her and how she actually is, arthur who was loved carefree throughout his entire life and wants people to live like that too, gabe that it's the total opposite, not wanting any complications even if it means hiding a huge part of yourself and bridget, someone that has to carry the weight of everyone's judgements for wanting to be something else.

Download the book Gwen and Art Are Not in Love pdf written by Lex Croucher and published by Wednesday Books in November 28, 2023 in PDF format. If they recognize the line at all, the only emotion it's going to evoke is puzzlement at why this novel is quoting a CW soap. Gwen and Art Are Not in Love is non-binary author’s Lex Croucher (they/them) YA debut, having previously written adult romcoms. In recent years, Lex has become passionate about the power of YouTube and social media to publicise causes and achieve positive change in the world.After loving both Reputation and Infamous, Gwen and Art didn't disappoint and I will be eagerly awaiting Lex's next book. I flew through this book in a day, which is a commendable achievement considering how slowly I’ve been reading because of school. In fact, Gwen has eyes for a knight, Bridget that comes to participate in the tournament every year, and Arthur is starting to feel something he definitely isn't supposed to, towards the heir to the English throne, Gwen's brother, Gabriel.

I cheered Bridget on when she jumped into a fight to save someone, and I said aww, when Gabriel took care of a wounded baby crow. Gabriel was a tough nut to crack and since we didn’t have his POV, a lot of necessary inner monologue didn’t happen. One that carves out a little pocket of time and space and makes it so beautifully real, tangible, and fun.So it’s up to you – you can put them aside forever, if you can live with that, or you can put on your big-girl girdle and demand more for yourself. thank you to macmillan/wednesday books and edelweiss+ for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review. On my award-winning book blog, you can find a range of reviews of YA to Adult books and all the topics in-between. Gwen and Art are wonderful characters and I wish I could stay in their world, with their rag-tag assembly of found family (and swoon over Bridget) for longer… I loved it!

Tell him he doesn’t have to be a lost lamb, stealing kisses in secret and then agonising over them afterwards. of course, it makes sense later on, but the book wasn't engaged in the conflict enough for it to make sense until the climax. The only comfort is that she will also be able to indulge in watching the jousting tournaments, particularly those featuring the realm’s only Lady Knight, Lady Bridget Leclair, who has recently starred embarrassingly often in Gwen’s dreams.Despite being plot heavy, we still got a good balance of characters learning and messing up and learning again. I get that it's 'historical-ish' and I should just treat it as an Arthurian romcom set in a medieval-ish setting, but there's only so much I can take when 'shit' is part of their daily vocabulary or knowing what century the characters were living in! Even with rivals Gwen and Art throwing their shields down and actually growing on each other, it’s not enough to prepare for war—and just how much they’ve got that will be lost in the battle. it's a very slow paced book that if u take your time to enjoy and appreciate, you'll be given an incredible story that will forever be in your heart.

The internalised homophobia in this novel is high, and this is something that I don't think I expected quite to this degree.

Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history. This is such a fun romcom, full of genuinely funny moments and dialogues, with both an f/f and m/m romance that I guarantee you will love. For as long as the book was, the relationships really weren’t given enough space to develop, just with how the book was paced and plotted out. It just makes for inconsistency and abrupt cut-offs without really allowing the depth of the story to sink in. Told in dual POV alternating between Gwen, the stubborn and highly-strung princess of England and Art, the rougeish and thoughtless man she has been betrothed to her entire life, the book manages to explore themes of internalised homophobia and coming-of-age with ease.