If You Still Recognise Me

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One thing that I really loved was that coming out to her family is Elsie's end goal, but she hasn't done so by the end of the book, and that doesn't take away from her identity in any way. Reading his experience with discovering his identity in this book truly means a lot to me as someone who’s ace and needed this kind of rep when I was a teen. Elsie has just finished her A-Level exams, and the long summer ahead of her promises to be one filled with excitement. There’s this wonderful blend of coming of age and figuring yourself out, mixed with navigating changing friendships, mixed with tentative romance, mixed with identity and queerness. I truly think that this is going to be my absolute favorite read of 2022 + my favorite sapphic read this year.

Every single page in this book felt important to me and I seriously would not mind reading everything all over again (which is super rare for me as I’ve never re-read any book so far). I loved that we got to visit different cities around England through Elsie’s eyes during her adventures. Although issues of sexuality and gender are prominent, this novel also has much to say about cultural inheritance, found and biological family, assimilation, racism, and acceptance, but all of these topics are wonderfully woven within the narrative and organic. It follows Elsie who has a crush on her internet best friend and is planning on making a big gesture to show her friend that she likes her.

It handles all of these brilliantly, and despite the difficult topics it is still a really heartwarming read. If You Still Recognise Me is a poignant, perfectly formed debut about queer love, fandom and family.

With a mystery to solve, a trail to follow, comics to read, family secrets to uncover, holidays by the sea and a heartwarming sapphic romance, this book is a celebration of friendship, fandom and identity. The writing was so thoughtful and so beautiful, and there's so much quiet depth in this book that makes it stand out in the YA contemporary genre.If You Still Recognise Me is a poignant, perfectly formed debut about queer love, fandom and family. Somehow I was actually surprised by a key plot point, when looking back I have no idea how I expected anything else. One thing I particularly loved is that this book doesn't end with the main character neatly coming out to her parents and grandmother, like you might expect. I can tell that this book will help anyone struggling with their identity and let them know that they’re not alone.

And this book is as much about identity as it is about loss - the loss of contact, loss of time, and sometimes feeling the loss of a person less so than the loss of what they could have been to you. The main storyline revolves around queer young women, but there is significant representation of middle-age and mature queer people/love, too, something often missing from YA novels. ta książka zasługuje na specjalne miejsce w moim sercu, mimo wszystkich uszczerbków emocjonalnych, jakie ze sobą przyniosła. There are family secrets and I just loved seeing every single interaction with Elsie and every member of her family. The novel is truly a complex love letter to those who have grown up with fandoms as a central comfort and is a refreshing display of what representation should be.

We’re Marie (she/her) and Nyx (she/her), two sisters screaming about books at each other and now with you, too. Elsie is also dealing with the repercussions of a past toxic relationship and I thought that was discussed very gently and carefully. This is a wonderful summer YA book with tons of amazing queer representation, a main character who's really into comics and lots of focus on family and friends. If you enjoy Alice Oseman’s friendships, mental health focus and British setting or if you enjoy Ciara Smyth’s useless lesbians not admitting their Very Obvious feelings for each other and teen hijinks or if you just want to feel warm and loved for a few hours, then this is the book for you. I also however really loved the friendships and the romance - which is estranged childhood friends to lovers!

An accomplished debut with shades of Nina LaCour, If You Still Recognise Me is the perfect summer-time read.However, this is just a personal thing though and I bet lots of other readers will find and see themselves in the characters' love for reading fanfics and creating fan art and edits! I did find the book to be quite predictable - I wasn't particularly shocked or surprised by any of the plot points, it went very much the way I expected it to.