Always the Almost

By Edward Underhill,

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Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year's resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and star of the football team) Shane McIntyre, and 2) finally beat his arch-nemesis at the Midwest's biggest classical piano competition. But that's not going to be so easy. For one thing, Shane broke up…

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1 author picked Always the Almost as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

When I first read the blurb for this book and saw that there was a piano competition involved with queer characters, I was so ready to read it.

Being a pianist myself, I have a love of classical music and this book hit all the boxes! I also enjoyed there was a variety of queer representation as well. Not going to lie, I really cried at the ending of this book, everything wrapped up really well and I enjoyed reading Miles’ story. This book was everything I was hoping for and more. I can’t wait for the author’s next book!

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