Gemini Bites by Patrick Ryan
Out: March 1, 2011
Summary:
One of the strangest (and funniest) love triangles ever to hit YA fiction, when a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) both fall for the boy who moves in with them…who may or may not be a vampire.
Judy and Kyle Renneker are sixteen-year-old fraternal twins in a rambling family of nine. They have a prickly history with each other and are, at least from Judy's perspective, constantly in fierce competition. Kyle has recently come out of the closet to his family and feels he might never know what it's like to date a guy. Judy, who has a history of pretending to be something she isn't in order to get what she wants, is pretending to be born-again in order to land a boyfriend who heads his own bible study.
When their parents announce that the family is going to be taking in a fellow student for a month so that he can finish the school year before moving away, both Kyle and Judy can't help but sit up and take notice. Garret Johnson, who is taking temporary residence in the newly finished attic, is a young man who moved into town less than a year ago and who is a mysterious, goth loner . . . and claims to be a vampire. He's not an easy person to get to know by any means, but the twins find him (to varying degrees) both strange and alluring.
GEMINI BITES explores what it means to pretend to be something you aren't, what happens when that backfires, and how in-your-face honesty is almost always the best course of action.
Why I Want It: Personally, I still like vampire novels...though if this is truly a vampire novel or just a guy claiming to be one, I'm not sure. Either way, it sounds interesting. And I love that there is a YA vampire novel coming out where one of the main characters are gay. It's different and very exciting, especially in regards to this sites' whole message: Let's Get Beyond Tolerance. Maybe a book like this will help with that.
I'm also a freelance publicist and this book is something that I would love to help promote. So hey, if the author reads this and you're interested...get in touch. Here's my site.
What are your thoughts? PLUS, what other 2011 books feature LGBT characters? I can't really find any beyond Gemini Bites!
-Lauren
4 comments:
I have an ARC of this one and am looking forward to reading it! There's an upcoming novel by the author of The Geography Club that involves astral projection, I believe, as well as a new one by Alex Sanchez. Those are the only two I know of. :-)
I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for sharing some other books. I sure hope we learn of more as the year goes on. :)
-Lauren
I got an ARC of this and it is fan-frickin'-tastic. Great gay characters, romance, absurd high school social drama, tons of humor. It is great!
I have a friend I'm sending it to next but if you'd like to be second on that ARC tour, send me your mailing address to songtoisis@gmail.com and I'll have him send it on to you when he's done with it. :)
You may have heard of this book by now - I am J.
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