Felix Ever After

By: Kacen Callender

Narrated by: Logan Rozos

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.

Felix Love has never been in love — and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many — Black, queer, and transgender — to ever get his own happily-ever-after.

When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages — after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned — Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi-love triangle....

But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.

Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve.

"Felix is attending an ultracompetitive arts summer program to have a better shot at a full scholarship to Brown when someone posts Felix’s dead name beside photos of him, pre-transition, in the school’s lobby. Felix’s plot to get revenge throws him onto the path of love and self-discovery." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")

©2020 Kacen Callender (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

Cliche Ever After (But Still Worth a Listen!)

Small spoilers!

This really is a great coming of age type story.

Transgender Felix deals with his own personal identify crisis, while being outed with his birth identity to his whole school, all while desperately wanting to fall in love... never realizing his best friend is secretly pining for him.

The two friends do weird things. Like snuggle up in bed together. And I'm not talking about sharing a bed with your bestie. This is full on tangle of limbs, we can't even tell who the big spoon or the little spoon is anymore type of snuggling. This is when they are just "friends".

I don't know. The idea of that friendship turning in to something more is what bothered me most about the book. Too cliche for a story that really had a promising plot.

Definitely worth a listen, extremely well narrated by Logan Rozos, and well written as well. The audio production had a few errors that I noticed of lines being repeated. Now the author wrote many lines in the book to be repeated, but the production had them repeated in a way that was clearly not the intent. That took me out of the story at those moments because I had to rewind to see if I had just stopped paying attention or there really were errors!

Listen now!

I loved this book! It's a great coming of age, love, and finding one's self journey. I love reading stories that I can relate to in a less abstract way. Its not a fantasy but a story of how life is and being a teenager is hard. Add on everything Felix is dealing with and wow! Everyone should read this story rather they are in the LGBTQI+ community or not.

Powerful LGBT Story

I loved this book! The narrator was fantastic. It is such an important story. Love.

Love it

I loved listening to this book about Felix figuring out who he is & how to discover what love feels like.

What a beautifully written story

Felix is a great character, he's cute and sweet and even though he knows he's transgender and has been living that way for a few years, something still isn't right. While he's questioning his identity, someone at school posts pictures of him before transition and dead names him. Then they start sending Felix horrible messages that tear him down. I cried for Felix when he read those messages and started to believe that maybe he wasn't worthy of love and affection. No one should feel like that ever.

The sort of love triangle was so well done and I honestly wasn't sure who Felix would end up with. In the end, he made the best choice for him and I loved watching him sort out his feelings while doing some soul searching and realizing he matters and loves himself.

This is so well written and I was fully invested in the story from the beginning. I think many readers will identify with Felix's struggle to realize exactly who his is and surround himself with people who will accept him.

The time and reason was right

I have been told that people will come into your life for a time or season when you need them. The same is true for book. I have been questioning who I am and my identity for some time now and only grab the book because it was on sale and an LGBT book. I didn't know it was going to hit home with the trans part so much for me. I grown up in the 80's and 90's with the struggle to discover how I was in a racist town and never he and of trans until much later in life so I just thought I was a very feminine gay male. Had I had a book like this then....

Even if you are a straight man or female I want you to read this. Please understand the struggle we fight with both internally and extremely.

To the author...thank you.

Love it

Adorable story, great performance. I am going to be in “book hang over” for a whole after this...

Enjoyable and binge-worthy!

I couldn't stop listening! It's such a great story, with lots of twists and turns. Logan Rozos does a great job reading it. This would be a good book for adults and teens.

W book

Great book I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for sharing it with us it was really good.

LOVE this Book!!!

This NEEDS to be required reading in high school ASAP!!! I am not part of the LGBTQ+ community but I have always been an ally all the way back since I was a teenager back in the 1990s in an all-girls Catholic School where more education & representation was needed everywhere. I have Nieces and preteen/teen cousins who I just gifted this book to (and a couple other books) I know we are still not where we need to be in way to many areas but compared to 20 years ago we are so much better it makes my heart happy!