I am a gay wizard

He's a Latinx nonbinary guy who spends way too much time daydreaming, scouring YouTube for retro-anime movies, and sobbing to sad, old punk songs with his best friend, a Chihuahua named Darla. Review Posted Online: Feb. More by Daniel Aleman. Page Count: Publisher: Little, Brown.

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Trouble signing in? Log in. Juan “Johnny” Diaz and his best friend, a transgender girl named Alison, think they’re just playing around when they cast a magic spell, but they are abducted to a secretive institute for teens exhibiting magical potential.

What do you hope to bring to the world of young adult fiction? The entertaining title is the best part of this disaster.

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A (presumably Latinx) gay teen is forcibly taken to a school for teen wizards. Sign Up. A presumably Latinx gay teen is forcibly taken to a school for teen wizards. Pub Date: Nov. Review Posted Online: Sept. The Garcias live in fear until the day both parents are picked up; his Pa is taken to jail and his Ma to a detention center.

The adults around Mateo offer support to him and his 7-year-old sister, Sophie, however, he knows he is now responsible for caring for her and the bodega as well as trying to survive junior year—that is, if he wants to fulfill his dream to enter the drama program at the Tisch School of the Arts and become an actor.

An ode to the children of migrants who have been taken away. Illogical leaps and inconsistent characterizations abound, with lighthearted romantic interludes juxtaposed against genocide, child abuse, and sadism. Main characters are cued white; the supporting cast has some brown-skinned characters.

V.S. Santoni is the author of I’m A Gay Wizard. What sets your book, I’m A Gay Wizard, apart from this genre? Pub Date: Oct. Page Count: Publisher: Wattpad Books. It eschews cynicism for optimism, casts aside decorum for honesty, and revels in being bright, colorful, and romantic.

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Johnny and friends venture into the Everywhen, a place all humans enter when they sleep, and encounter monsters. I’m a Gay Wizard has a distinctly hopeful tone. A lackluster and sometimes disturbing mishmash of overused tropes.