Love Letters for Joy
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Clean & Wholesome
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Melissa See
A new LGBTQIA+ romance story by the author of You, Me, and Our Heartstrings. Less than a year away from graduation, seventeen-year-old Joy is too busy overachieving to be worried about relationships. She's determined to be Caldwell Prep's first disabled valedictorian. And she only has one person to beat, her academic rival Nathaniel. But it's senior year and everyone seems to be obsessed with pairing up. One of her best friends may be developing feelings for her and the other uses Caldwell's anonymous love-letter writer to snag the girl of her dreams. Joy starts to wonder if she has missed out on a quintessential high school experience. She is asexual, but that's no reason she can't experience first love, right? She writes to Caldwell Cupid to help her sort out these new feelings and, over time, finds herself falling for the mysterious voice behind the letters. But falling in love might mean risking what she wants most, especially when the letter-writer turns out to be the last person she would ever expect.
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Author
Melissa See
Pages
304
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Published Date
2023
ISBN
1338875388 9781338875386
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"Yeah short book with lots of LGBTQ+ and disability rep but honestly one of the more underwhelming academic rivals to lovers dynamics I've read and part of it might just be a function of how short it is but I felt there was so many more scenes we could've explored.<br/><br/>Also for what is basically light romcom-y type vibes this book seems to be giving, the antagonist and Nathaniel's parents caught me off guard with how aggressively villainy they act. Idk it's also possible this judgement is influenced by how stressed/sensitive I've been these last couple days.<br/><br/>Nitpick paragraph: As a generally good student in high school who had a few final marks of 98s and 99s and had proximity to the really high achievers of the school, ok man there is no possible way 99% was the lowest mark either of them ever got on an assessment like what plane do these people operate on? Also probably just salty that I chose to live at home to go to university and also that I succumbed to the allure of high rankings but idk going to the highest ranked most prestigious school that accepts you is not the no-brainer choice this book represents it as even if it's right for some people. I think that's all my nitpicks lol bad mood.<br/><br/>This book did spark a bit of reflection that led to accepting the conclusion that I'm most likely on the asexual spectrum or should at least operate as such rather than perpetually acting shifty when anyone talks about sex or relationships and ghosting people who I tried to go on dates with cuz I don't want to kiss them. Lol. Not something this book did except for existing as ace rep so that is nice and not nothing<br/><br/>Idk I will edit this"
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Emily
"Absolutely amazing, read it twice in two days, such a good rivals to lovers arc"
helen appelbaum
