While reading, it is hard to not picture Felix with this beauty, although throughout the book Felix may not feel this way.įelix Ever After is the book all teenagers need in their life because it is an age when we are all questioning our identity. The cover features the main character, Felix, in a beautiful artistic representation where he has a colorful flower crown, tattoos on his arms, and he is proudly showing his top surgery scars under his loose tank top. That being said, what spoke to me most about this book before I picked it up was the beautiful cover. Likewise, Kacen Callender, the Black nonbinary author writes from their perspective of questioning identity. After this sudden revelation for many, Felix Ever After became huge in the book community because of its representation of a Black queer trans character as the protagonist. When I am writing this review it is early June and we just entered a time when white people (including myself) are realizing the internal bias we have in our reading habits and how few Black authors we have read. “But above all else, I hope Felix can do for even just one reader what Adam did for me: that a reader picks up Felix Ever After and learns more about themselves and their identity, and that becoming who they truly are is a possibility” -Kacen Callender
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