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I got an ARC of this book.

I got this because I was super excited by genderqueer rep in YA books. The title and the description are pretty misleading. Just assume everything I type is going to be a spoiler after this line. Ok, so Jamie is genderqueer, that is established super early on in the book with very little fanfare. There is a lot of angst about coming out, but the identity itself was super easy. They started using they pronouns pretty early in the book, so I wouldn't feel comfortable using she like the description does. This is why I hate the title. Jamie doesn't identify as a girl, so why is the title about being a girl? There are so many lines where Jamie expresses how they are neither girl or boy, so why did this title stick? It is so untrue to the character and to the idea behind the story. It invalidates the feelings that Jamie expresses over and over again in this book.

The reason why I can still rate this book as high as I do is there is the background characters. There are gay people coming out to differing degrees of acceptance, there is the older brother who is a total sweetheart (made me tear up at one point), and then there are the straight and cis characters who have actually things going on in their lives that is unrelated to sexuality which gives the book depth. The book otherwise had no depth. It was just angsty poetry about being afraid to come out. It read much below the age of the characters in the book too. If this was aimed at or about ten year olds, then this would have made perfect sense. Instead I am left feeling like I was being talked down to instead.

The ARC file I received was also very much inaccessible at times with formatting and repeating of whole sections of the book. I am hoping this is cleared up with the final ebook that is for sale, but it makes me wary of recommending buying the ebook instead of the hard copy. The hard copy version would be better because it would give a more tangible weight to my favorite part of the book. The one line that made this book make a huge impression on me.

There is a line that stood out as so wonderful and so necessary that it made me tear up. The older brother tells Jaime that they are perfect and they are enough. If someone had said that to me when I was coming to terms with my gender, maybe I wouldn't still be ashamed and hate what I am. Maybe I wouldn't still struggle with my body and my mind on a daily basis. Seeing a character get that level of support and hearing the exact words that I would have needed touched me so deeply. I just can't get over it. That line alone would have made this book worth reading. I can ignore all of my bad feelings and recommend this book based on that one line.


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Some Girls Bind Ya Verse Rory James Books Reviews

A novel in verse about coming out, the challenges of a world that enforces the gender binary, the fears of acceptance, Some Girls Bind tells the story of Jamie, who realizes they are genderqueer. Jamie is AFAB, so a large part of the story is them trying to shed the feminine label, and initially just being seen as a person who prefers boyish clothes. They slowly grow to trust their friend, who is gay, to confide in, to find other people like them (a genderqueer poet) to look up to, and building up the courage to come out to their other friends and to family. They talk about a world that is unnecessarily gendered; the bathroom thing is obvious, but there are also clothes, and language. They find surprising support in their older brother, who discovers their binder, and helps out by reassuring them and getting a proper binder, as well as facilitating a conversation with their parents (the language of that conversation could have been better, but keep in mind this is to inform 20th century cis-people that gender is not a binary, but a spectrum). The verse is in a modern poetry style, and there are a couple of really good metaphors and lines thrown in (I particularly liked the one about 'courage' being necessary to come out). Overall, though, it is just what the synopsis says - it is about a genderqueer person coming out, and finding their place in a gendered society.
This isn't a heavy read, but a short insight into the life of Jamie, who *feels* she's genderqueer. It shows us her family dynamics, her LGBT friends and their potential issues, her het friends their actual/potential issues and her fears about coming out.

I liked the support she had from her brother and that she had a community of friends who helped and supported her, and that her parents were decent guys. I think that in some ways, she was privileged as her parents were well off, educated and she wasn't the first child in the family, so didn't have all the attention on her. And, I don't think that this was reflective of a lot of 2018 USA. Unfortunately.

It did feel the slightest that the author used the hi-lo verse to add drama where there really wasn't much drama. If the author was trying to highlight gender issues, and in particular genderqueerness, it didn't work for me, as the tale came across as Jamie being indecisive and unconvincing, as well as unconvinced. Right now, with gender issues getting so much negative press, i.e. that people are 'choosing' to be of a gender other than the one assigned at birth, I don't think this book helps the cause. I am an LGBT ally, but it feels as if this book was a little about Jamie indulging herself in a 'I'm entitled to' way, that so many people use as their MO for life. And with this, I kind of feel that those haters might just have some ammo to back up their thoughts/beliefs, wrong as those may be.

ARC courtesy of the author and West44 books for my reading pleasure.
I got an ARC of this book.

I got this because I was super excited by genderqueer rep in YA books. The title and the description are pretty misleading. Just assume everything I type is going to be a spoiler after this line. Ok, so Jamie is genderqueer, that is established super early on in the book with very little fanfare. There is a lot of angst about coming out, but the identity itself was super easy. They started using they pronouns pretty early in the book, so I wouldn't feel comfortable using she like the description does. This is why I hate the title. Jamie doesn't identify as a girl, so why is the title about being a girl? There are so many lines where Jamie expresses how they are neither girl or boy, so why did this title stick? It is so untrue to the character and to the idea behind the story. It invalidates the feelings that Jamie expresses over and over again in this book.

The reason why I can still rate this book as high as I do is there is the background characters. There are gay people coming out to differing degrees of acceptance, there is the older brother who is a total sweetheart (made me tear up at one point), and then there are the straight and cis characters who have actually things going on in their lives that is unrelated to sexuality which gives the book depth. The book otherwise had no depth. It was just angsty poetry about being afraid to come out. It read much below the age of the characters in the book too. If this was aimed at or about ten year olds, then this would have made perfect sense. Instead I am left feeling like I was being talked down to instead.

The ARC file I received was also very much inaccessible at times with formatting and repeating of whole sections of the book. I am hoping this is cleared up with the final ebook that is for sale, but it makes me wary of recommending buying the ebook instead of the hard copy. The hard copy version would be better because it would give a more tangible weight to my favorite part of the book. The one line that made this book make a huge impression on me.

There is a line that stood out as so wonderful and so necessary that it made me tear up. The older brother tells Jaime that they are perfect and they are enough. If someone had said that to me when I was coming to terms with my gender, maybe I wouldn't still be ashamed and hate what I am. Maybe I wouldn't still struggle with my body and my mind on a daily basis. Seeing a character get that level of support and hearing the exact words that I would have needed touched me so deeply. I just can't get over it. That line alone would have made this book worth reading. I can ignore all of my bad feelings and recommend this book based on that one line.