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so females cant just be friends ????
So females and males can't be friends ???? Two can play that game friend. People just love crawling out of the woodwork to parrot that particular line whenever someone so much as implies that two same gender characters have chemistry. I find it difficult to read your reply as being in good faith, but I'll indulge you. As a "female" I can in fact confirm that yes, "females" can just be friends. Perhaps you can understand, if you put yourself in my shoes, why I might like to see people like myself in the literature I read? Why it comes as a disappointment when the lead is given a bland and nonsensical romantic entanglement with a dude, seemingly because that's what one does? If Amari had been a male character with little other change to the novel, I doubt anyone would be looking down their nose at me for interpreting her and Zélie's relationship as romantic. And I don't particularly appreciate being told off it. Especially when the bulk of my comment is a critique of the actual romantic relationship in the book.
Bland and nonsensical? Get off your high horse and let authors do what they want. You can write some yaoi or sth if you want to see it so badly. This book was beautiful and the fact that you think lgbt representation would have bettered it does not mean it is "lacking" in any way. Remember Tomi is African, from a country where Harry Potter isn't allowed on many shelves so baby steps.
Yeah, I hated the mash up of the two. Tzain sucks.
Seeing as how boy and girl do not live happily ever after, I'm not sure what your complaint is. Pretty sure he dies and she 's happily single at the end of the book.
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So females and males can't be friends ???? Two can play that game friend. People just love crawling out of the woodwork to parrot that particular line whenever someone so much as implies that two same gender characters have chemistry. I find it difficult to read your reply as being in good faith, but I'll indulge you. As a "female" I can in fact confirm that yes, "females" can just be friends. Perhaps you can understand, if you put yourself in my shoes, why I might like to see people like myself in the literature I read? Why it comes as a disappointment when the lead is given a bland and nonsensical romantic entanglement with a dude, seemingly because that's what one does? If Amari had been a male character with little other change to the novel, I doubt anyone would be looking down their nose at me for interpreting her and Zélie's relationship as romantic. And I don't particularly appreciate being told off it. Especially when the bulk of my comment is a critique of the actual romantic relationship in the book.
Bland and nonsensical? Get off your high horse and let authors do what they want. You can write some yaoi or sth if you want to see it so badly. This book was beautiful and the fact that you think lgbt representation would have bettered it does not mean it is "lacking" in any way. Remember Tomi is African, from a country where Harry Potter isn't allowed on many shelves so baby steps.
Yeah, I hated the mash up of the two. Tzain sucks.
Seeing as how boy and girl do not live happily ever after, I'm not sure what your complaint is. Pretty sure he dies and she 's happily single at the end of the book.
