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Categories:Gender, Book
Preston Norton
Description
Ezra Slevin has had a crush on Imogen since the fourth grade. Now a
high school junior, as he's trying to work up the courage to have a
conversation with his dream girl, let alone ask her to prom,
something strange happens. On the night of a solar eclipse, Ezra
swaps bodies with Imogen's BFF, Wynonna Jones, a blue-haired 80's
rocker girl and Ezra's mortal enemy. Ezra and Wynonna begin
randomly swapping back and forth, leading to all kinds of
complicated situations and sexual confusion. Can the two of them
work together to get each other their dream prom dates? And will
they even be in their own bodies on the night of prom?
This easy to read YA novel is an excellent take on a gender
swapping Freaky Friday, touching on serious issues such as gender
and sexual identity, self worth, and Johnny Depp movies, but also
with a huge helping of humor and pop culture references in Ezra's
narration. In much cross-gender body swap fiction, the gender
change is treated as an initial embarrassing complication and then
mostly forgotten, but not here. There is a lot to love here for TG
body swap fans, but it also happens to be a hugely entertaining
story with three dimensional sympathetic characters and a
satisfying, if somewhat ambiguous conclusion.
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originally posted by kreplach on 2019-08-08, no edits, entryid=9567
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