Symptoms of Being Human

Boy or Girl? YES.

Lena Bachl am 01.04.2017
Bewertungsnummer: 345343
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

Symptoms of Being Human shows how people might have problems and struggle when figuring themselves, their sexuality and/or their gender out. This book gives great insight into what it can mean to be gender fluid. The reader receives a lot of informations about how the main character feels about gender fluidity and also mentions other aspects of the lgbt+ community. In this story we follow Riley who sometimes is a girl and other times a boy. It's not easy to come out though, whether to friends or family, because Riley's father is a congressman running for reelection, is constantly on the media and has to attend many events. To help Riley with anxiety and depression a therapist advices to start a blog. But Riley's anonymous blog soon goes viral and Riley has to decide if everything is too much and if the account shoud be deleted or not. We read about the protagonist's struggles within the new school, how Riley handles the bullies and how friends come along the way. This is a beautiful book with great writing. We definitely need more stories with characters like Riley.

Heartwarming and Cute and Cruel and Sad and Wonderful!

Bewertung aus Mainz am 15.01.2021
Bewertungsnummer: 1427139
Bewertet: eBook (ePUB 3)

This book feels like a good high school movie. We got bullies, love, puberty, LGBT and punk rock. :) This hidden gem certainly is an insider tip, especially if you're from LGBT community. However, also non-LGBT reader may enjoy this! This novel is made up, but the author did some great research. So, it's all about the story and feelings and being human - it's a novel after all. For those who are related to LGBT may be reminded of how puberty felt and those who are not related to LGBT will simply feel with our protagonist. Either way, you better have some tissues at the ready. :)