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Sugar rush
278 pages
A dizzying plunge into the intoxicating, all-consuming rush of a first queer crush.
What it feels like
This briskly paced coming-of-age story captures the breathless, dizzying atmosphere of adolescent infatuation. The mood is steeped in yearning and the heightened emotional reality of high school, where a new environment suddenly transforms into the backdrop for an all-consuming queer awakening. The prose is accessible and immediate, perfectly mirroring the intense, earnest tone of a teenager captivated by someone undeniably glamorous. It explores the intoxicating pull of first love and the messy, beautiful process of discovering one's identity. Readers who devour emotionally resonant LGBTQ+ young adult fiction will find themselves swept up in this tender, character-driven exploration of the sheer rush that comes with falling hard for the first time.
- Mood
- yearning
- dizzying
- emotionally charged
- tender
- Tone
- earnest
- youthful
- observant
- intense
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- queer awakening · first love · adolescent identity · the pull of glamour · navigating new environments
- The writing
- Accessible and emotionally immediate, the writing mirrors the heightened, breathless reality of teenage feelings.
- The arc
- The narrative arcs from the isolating uncertainty of a new environment to the all-consuming, intoxicating heights of a first queer infatuation.
- Who it's for
- Readers looking for a classic, emotionally resonant YA coming-of-age story centered on the dizzying impact of a first lesbian crush.
Content notes
- teenage angst
About the book
After fifteen-year-old Kim transfers to a new school, she finds herself falling in love with the glamorous Maria "Sugar" Sweet.
Description from Open Library.
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