How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis

Fast forward three years and these two are at complete odds, a rift running through their relationship that is too wide to come back from. Jude is the wild one, the one unafraid to speak up - for both of them. Noah loses himself in his art, creating breathtaking paintings while also slowly coming to terms with the attraction he feels for another boy. Buy it here.Īt age thirteen, twins Jude and Noah are as close as two siblings can be. The prose is terse and spare, told wholly through Ari’s perspective and it is through this lens that we are able to watch him grow and mature, coming of age in a way that is nothing short of beautiful.

Their friendship endures a move as well as unexpected sexual self-discovery until an inexorable conclusion that will have readers speed reading through the final few pages. By all outward appearances, these two should never become friends but Saenz’s gift is in allowing the boys to discover one another through small exchanges, little intimacies that interweave their lives together after a chance encounter at the swimming pool.

In contrast, Dante is warm and loving with an open and easy relationship with his parents and a unique view on how the world works. Aristotle is going nowhere fast: he uses his fists with barely any provocation and his list of friends sits at an abysmal zero. Buy it here.īenjamin Alire Saenz dazzles with this deceptively simple story of a chance encounter which quickly blossoms into very real friendship. Quick moving and engrossing, this is a heady read that will take you through all sorts of emotions. Britta Lundin writes fandom and geek culture with a deft hand, drawing in readers who may not have any previous fandom experience themselves and investing them in the outcomes right off the bat. Now she is mixing with convention goers and show stars alike, learning that different lenses can be applied to different scenarios and hoping against hope to finally prove that her take on the romance storyline is the right one. A video of the moment goes viral and when the show has an imminent PR disaster on its hands, Claire is offered a spot on the Demon Heart convention tour as a means of boosting the show’s image with the LGBTQ+ community after the incident. After shipping their relationship and writing fanfic based on this assumption for years, she is gutted to have one of the actors refute her ideas in a very public setting. In Britta Lundin’s new novel Ship It, teenager Claire had always assumed that two of the main characters on her favorite television show, Demon Heart, were gay.

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis