October 2023 BotM - If You Still Recognize Me

[Kaje]

We only had one nominated book this month, so we'll be reading If You Still Recognize Me by Cynthia So

Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, they've never met in real life and Ada lives an ocean away. But Elsie has decided it's now or never to tell Ada how she feels. That is, until her long-lost best friend Joan walks back into her life.

In a summer of repairing broken connections and building surprising new ones, Elsie realises that she isn't nearly as alone as she thought. But now she has a choice to make...

Content warnings: (view spoiler)[ homophobia, mentions of grief, mentions of death (grandfathers), brief mentions of racism, brief mentions of anxiety, mentions of divorce (hide spoiler)]

I look forward to seeing what our members think of this one. If you want to comment on something that may be a story spoiler, you can hide it by putting <*spoiler> (without the *) ahead of it, and <*/spoiler> (without the *) after it - eg. (view spoiler)[hide the info. (hide spoiler)]

[Axel]

I absolutely adored this book. I loved the romance and the differnt stories that were told trough the perspective of Elsie.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kaje]

Axel wrote: "I absolutely adored this book. I loved the romance and the differnt stories that were told trough the perspective of Elsie.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"

Yay - I'll have to move it up. I am so behind on the group books. (Bad moderator ;)