Ha ha, hilarious, Tilly, I’m finally a joke even to you,” he said, and led me into their narrow front room. “I thought you’d be really pleased at me making a conscious effort to move on from Grace.” I am 30+ years old but I enjoy teen novels as a form of nostalgia. I was not a drama school kid when i was a teenager, but I had a lot of friends who were. It felt like I was in high school again! The essence of awkwardness and discomfort that comes with discovering and knowing who you are, but not knowing how to use that when it comes to not just your love life, but also your personal life, is wonderful and makes the story seem so much more real and raw. It makes the characters feel more like people you know, as opposed to just fictional characters in a book.

The relationships, be them romantic, familial or platonic, were the real highlight of Cupid's Revenge, and it showed so much throughout the story just how important these connections are, especially during the hardest moments. Material from Cupid's Revenge, IV, iii was separately performed as a " droll" during the Interregnum when the theatres were forbidden to stage full-length plays. The droll, The Loyal Citizens, was printed in 1662 and 1672. The play was revived in an adaptation during the Restoration era, as many other Fletcherian works were; Samuel Pepys saw it in a version called Love Despised on 17 August 1668. I realize this is a mixed bag - some will enjoy, some will dislike her and thus have less of a good time with the book. I think it's worth the risk to try it out, also because the book does my favourite thing and provides a marvellous larger cast of individually great characters. The author so pins down their personalities and offers wonderful interactions and situation comedy. Also nice to see that a book actually covers the corona pandemic. For fans of Casey McQuiston and Alice Oseman, a girl falls for her best friend’s crush in Cupid’s Revenge, a queer young adult rom-com from Wibke Brueggemann that’s equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy.

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But Katherine is off-limits. The only thing more important than Tilly’s feelings for someone she just met is not hurting Teddy, whose heart has been broken in the past.

Everything used to be on paper before the internet. Bills, bank statements—you wouldn’t remember,” Dad said, and started ripping up A4 sheets and putting them in the recycling bag. I want to thank the publisher Macmillian Children's Publishing Group for giving me a copy of their new book, Cupid's Revenge. I absolutely adore the humor and the overall writing style of this book. The pace was great, the plot was entertaining, the characters had good personalities, and the setting was portrayed quite nicely.Both of us were born into musical families, but neither of us had inherited the musician gene, which was the cause of unspeakable embarrassment for our parents. Mum and Dad gave up on my musical education pretty early, but only because my older sister, Emilin, was already a genius on the piano. But because Teddy’s an only child, his parents literally didn’t want to believe how utterly useless he was and made him take Grade 2 violin exams when he was twelve and all the other kids were, like, six. When he couldn’t get through the theme tune of The Flintstones, they took him home and never spoke of it again. This cute YA book is about a theatre group who are doing a variety play to raise money for acting. The main character, Tilly (Matilda) joins up with her BFF, Teddy (Theodore) who is only joining up because he knows the girl, Katherine Cooper-Bunting is auditioning and begs Tilly to come along and help him get the girl.

Right, go and sit in the chair. I’m getting Rachmaninoff. You’ll be holding him. I’ll also grab a hoodie or something.”At times, however, the story did feel a bit repetitive to me. I think that’s due in part to the miscommunication trope, which isn’t my favorite in rom-coms. Just talk to each other already! Especially when it came to Teddy and Tilly. I know grief partly factored into it, I just wish they had been able to work things out sooner. Then she opened the front door, and the next fifteen seconds played out as predicted, all “hello, hello,” as did the closing of the door, Katherine Cooper-Bunting’s sudden presence in the hallway, and us appearing in her direct line of vision. But in saying that, this book is definitely cute. It's #sexpositive. It has queer characters, including lesbians, gays and non-binary characters. The theatre world was cute. He cradled his violin like a doll and slowly slid down the doorframe until he was sitting on the floor. The play depends upon the Arcadia of Sir Philip Sidney for the source of its plot; the Duke in Cupid's Revenge is a blend of Sidney's King of Lycia and King of Iberia. In turn, Cupid's Revenge served as a source for other dramatists. There is a significant relationship between this play and The Birth of Merlin, one of the plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha. Plot elements shared by both works – the missing prince, and the ruler and his heir who fall in love with the same woman—could be due to derivation from common sources; but the plays also feature specific shared lines and passages. Critics also cite detectable influences from Cupid's Revenge on the anonymous tragedy Andromana (printed 1660). [4] After 1642 edit