SuitabookFelix Ever After
Kacen Callender
- Reading
- Before reading, agree that the reader can pause after the outing or harassment scenes. Afterwards, discuss consent, respectful language and whether the characters’ choices change how they understand trust and responsibility.
- Themes
- Privacy, outing and transphobia: Felix is publicly humiliated when pre-transition photographs and his deadname are displayed, followed by harassment and bullying. The treatment presents the outing and transphobic abuse as harmful, while affirming discussion of trans and nonbinary identity.
- Love, friendship and responsibility: Felix navigates developing feelings for competing romantic interests while relying on friendship and confronting questions of loyalty and forgiveness. The book appears to treat these relationships as emotionally significant, but the extracts do not establish which choices are endorsed or how conflicts resolve.
- Teenage substance use and social life: Teenagers drink alcohol and use cannabis and cigarettes in social settings, alongside the summer arts programme. Substance use is clearly present, but the extracts conflict about whether it is portrayed as normalised or not glamorised; no stronger judgement is warranted.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the reader would welcome a book containing transphobic harassment, deadnaming, strong profanity, kissing and implied sexual intimacy, and scenes of teenage drinking, cannabis use and smoking.