I Wish You All the Best

„wish you all the best, Benjamin De Backer.” They aren’t the same words, but I know exactly what he means. “I love you too.“

I wish I had read this book much sooner. The industry is really lacking in queer representation, especially trans stories. The way it's written is stunning and I can see myself in Ben's situations again and again. It felt pretty real reading it. Read their thoughts and their actions. How they want to fit in... Ben slowly found themselves and opened up to others, and Nathan was heartbreaking. (NATHAN IS SUCH A SUNSHINE, AHH) “I Wish You All the Best” is a sweet and soft story about a non-binary teenager finding their voice. This book is important to so many people, including me. It's definitely one of my favorite reads and won't be the last time I read it. The book is really comforting in its own way.

Einfach eines der besten (queeren) Bücher, die es gibt. ❤️

Eigentlich ist es ein Re-Read, denn die deutsche Übersetzung habe ich letztes Jahr gelesen und war sofort eines meiner all-time favorites. Das Original steht der Übersetzung natürlich in nichts nach. Mason Deaver schafft es einfach herausragend, die Lebensrealität einer nichtbinären Person empathisch und echt rüberzubringen. Ein Buch, das - zumindest mir - aus dem Herzen spricht. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Absolutely loved this book! It discussed so many serious and important topics that are often overlooked and remain unseen in our society. Even though it took me quite some time to get through this book, I still loved this book with my entire heart and I felt like a tiny peace of my heart breaking when I read that last line. The author, Mason Deaver has a very simple writing style and they're choice of words a very easy to understand. 5/5 stars. ~"I wish you all the best, Benjamin De Backer.", they aren't the same words but I know exactly what he means. "I love you too. ~

Story of a nonbinary teen trying to find their place

This has been on my tbr for a while now, and I am glad I finally read it. A book with great representation, many relateable topics (since I am nonbinary as well, though more on the trans-masc side), and a cute lovestory 💞 It starts really sad, with Ben getting kicked out by their parents after coming out to them. They ask their sister for help and stay with her afterward. The story is about Ben working out their new life, at a new school, meeting new people, and so on. One of them is Nathan, who they fall in love with. Their interactions are super cute, with many funny conversations. There isn't really much I would critique about the story itself. Maybe the beginning was a bit fast, but I get that the story was supposed to be about what happened after they got kicked out, so everything about that was handled rather quickly (also not that I wanted it to be longer there). The end could have been a bit longer, cause I always like seeing more of a relationship, but the focus was more on other stuff, so that was also fine. It could have been longer in general though, with more time to develop the side characters. I was still struggling with how to rate this. It feels wrong giving less than 4☆, but I just didn't LOVE it. As I said, I liked it, and there is technically nothing to complain about, but I also wasn't overly excited while reading. Maybe that's because I am more of an escapist reader, and when stuff gets a bit too real, especially with things that remind me of my own problems (mostly the mental health stuff), I don't enjoy reading it as much as things that have nothing to do with me. Not the books fault, though, and, as the afterword said, many people need a book like this, and it just speaks for how well done it was. But also, the story wasn't super eventful besides personal relationships. Maybe that's also a reason why I didn't like it more, but I still liked it well enough 😌 So, yeah, a nice quick read about a nonbinary main character, finding friends, and family.

ABSOLUTE RECOMMENDATION

Definetely one of my favorites. I loved the characters and the friendships so much in this book.

Looooooved this book so much!

<3

Als große Schwester hat es mich nochmal extra mitgenommen

(1.5 stars) I haven't finished the book yet and so far I'm enjoying it but... Saying to someone "I am not binary" is not something that has any meaning to me because I don't think of myself as "binary." It's not much different from saying, "I am not a toaster oven." I don't think someone is going to say that to parents who don't watch MTV or keep up to date with Instagram and immediately get kicked out of the house. They would have to explain what they meant first, then they would get kicked out. Everybody knows what saying "I am gay means." I am reading this book because I want to learn what it means when people say they are not binary, and see what life is like for them. So I am looking forward to seeing where this book goes... Well... after reading more... The first chapter of this book was good, but the rest of it is just like any other book about boring people doing boring things. Basically, this is just the typical YA romance book with the non-straight type people doing the falling in love, that I didn't read to the end because I lost interest. I'm a bad person. Goodbye.