Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

And then, like reaching the top of a rollercoaster, the book suddenly drops readers into war? People are dying left and right, major characters are getting irrevocably injured, and I felt like I had whiplash.įor a book to be so happy-go-lucky and then suddenly dropkick readers into war and death? This was one of my most anticipated books of the year, but I came out of it really disappointed in the reading experience. After spending 70% of this book with this slow and boring description of these characters’ day-to-day lives, we finally get a little plot. Speaking of killing: the ending of this book. An assassin comes to kill one of the characters and I’m still not sure who he was trying to kill. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love Lex Croucher (Author) FORMAT Hardcover 20.00 18.60 Pre-Order Ships Pre-Order add to wishlist Description Heartstopper meets A Knight's Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history. I don’t like guessing what is happening, even if I’m pretty sure I’m correct, but this book never seemed to state anything that was happening as 100% fact. There was a lot of inferring between the lines throughout this book, which is another thing I don’t enjoy.

I don’t know about y’all, but the tone was off for me. After such an opening, the book then intends for readers to go crazy over such small things as an elbow touch. I absolutely needed to know more about this book, but I was surprised to find that the rest of the book was kind of boring and slow. ALICE OSEMAN, bestselling author of HEARTSTOPPERFun and genuinely funny, with lovely friendships and first-rate dialogue. Soon after, Gwen plays chess with her brother, who quotes a meme at her. Our female main character, Gwen, wakes up from what I can only assume was a wet dream (the book doesn’t 100% confirm) starring her crush, the female knight Bridget Leclair. Nothing in this book was what I expected it to be.

It’s been a few days since I finished this book, and I’m still flabbergasted.

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher