Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Aug 17, 2014 Jen • Just One More Page rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, favorites, owned, romance, contemporary, lgbtqia, cultural, family, realistic-fiction, stunning-covers

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Feb 25, 2019 Anita Reads rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2019, contemporary, young-adult, standalone

This book is told from Aristotle’s perspective and tells the story from when he met Dante and how they became friends almost instantly, and how their friendship/relationship grew stronger over the years, and what they would each do for each other in different situations.

This book is incredibly popular in the YA community, and I can sort of see why. It is a well told story and it has a lot of great messages and themes, and the parent figures in this one is great. It has solid friendships.

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Dec 21, 2021 Mary Bronson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, young-adult, romance, favorites, realistic-fiction, contemporary, audio-book, own-voices

I thought this was such an AMAZING book. Once I got started it was hard to put down. I loved Ari and Dante as main characters. I think their friendship was so pure and true in the beginning. Granted they were two opposite kind of people. Ari is quite, keeps to himself, and has a little bit anger inside him. Where Dante is so open and carefree. As the story continues they start to find themselves and try to figure out going from boyhood to manhood. I think I made the right decision to listen to t ...more

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Aug 01, 2016 Veronika rated it liked it

Shelves: male-author, contemporary, queer, m-m

Beautifully written and simply gorgeous characterization. 10/10 would read again.

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Feb 10, 2016 Jessica Ann rated it it was amazing

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Nov 17, 2014 Anne rated it liked it

Shelves: book-club, read-in-2015

I loved most of this book, except the ending. It was just too out of character for my taste (and my book clubs taste as well). It would have been better with a slightly different route to the same conclusion, IMHO.

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