Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out: The uplifting, feel-good read of 2023

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His habit of putting himself down and avoiding taking risks is one so many readers will recognise and it’s his development over the course of the story that is so engaging. I liked Teddy's eventual romance plot, but again, I felt like the payoff was rushed and didn't quite give enough space to a narrative that is familiar to a lot of queer people. It tells the story of a grandfather and grandson both grappling with the coming out process and the prejudices that still exist in our society. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.

I can't think of any other story I've read with a coming out story for a character of his age, but it's one that needed to be told. Teddy's other best friend Lexi is a quirky straight girl without a personality beyond going out for drinks with her two ✨gay best friends✨ and complaining about being single. Having grandfather and grandson sharing the spotlight instead, this book has torn up the rulebook completely. Everything is right there on the page, no subtlety behind anything, and when characters talk it often feels like the author is standing just above them maneuvering their strings. Ben, for obvious reasons, is less than impressed by this, since he’s had to work hard and pull himself up by the bootstraps to get here (he later reveals he was disowned by his parents for being gay.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He has been living closeted for his whole life, and he is now 79, and he and the love of his life were forcibly separated amidst a violent homophobic incident fifty years before. The one thing Ben says about it is only in the sense that Teddy must have known earlier than this how he felt about Ben, but he kept stringing him along (fair!

They’re twofold really, the first relating to Teddy and his treatment of Ben (apparently his boyfriend but you wouldn’t know it) and the second to the story’s narrative and its easy forgiveness of Elizabeth’s homophobia (YMMV on this one). Während Arthur sich also dazu entschließt, endlich er selbst zu sein, fällt seinem Enkel Teddy das gar nicht so leicht. Still, I enjoyed the various twists and turns each character faced, and there was a satisfying ending.Ryan Love exemplifies how bravery and contentment are possible for everyone, but that we might just need to make the effort to find happiness for ourselves. Consoling himself after work at the pub with his best friends, Shakeel is sympathetic, but Lexie tells him not to be so sensitive. Which, anyone who's ever had to keep a household running knows that that's a full-time job even with the kids long out of the house, so when does this almost 80-year-old woman sleep? Natürlich gibt auch hier und da großes Drama und den ein oder anderen Plottwist, aber am Ende steht Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out für ganz viele Emotion, für Verständnis für einander und für den festen Glauben an die Liebe, mag sie auch platonisch sein. I am very much the latter type, so for me it was a bit too relentlessly upbeat and the writing and characterisation weren't strong enough to pull off the implausible aspects.

Arthur and Teddy are Grandad and Grandson and they are going through the exact same thing but Arthur tells his family he’s Gay first leaving Teddy shocked at the news but even more wary of telling his family his own news because of the reaction his Grandad Arthur got. It's a story of fractured relationships, new blossoming romances, change, finding oneself, and proving you're never too old to grab life by the horns. Thus, they break up because Ben has broken Teddy’s trust (fair enough), but there’s hardly mention of how badly Teddy had been treating Ben up to this point. Don’t miss brilliant fiction every week in the pages of My Weekly, plus reviews of the best new fiction book releases. She accuses him of making it up, of coming out to spite her personally, of attempting to take the spotlight away from his uncle’s engagement, anything but recognise that he’s being vulnerable to her and hoping, despite knowing how she reacted to her father’s coming out, that she might be kind to him.I did notice that at times the story went really fast, and certain things are skipped, which I thought could have been a bit better.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. They do not take it well (another point of contention I had, but I’ll come back to that a lot later). Both times someone comes out to her, she manages to make it so totally about herself it’s almost impressive.However that being said, it was a Heart-warming story about a grandfather and his grandson both coming to terms with revealing to the family, that they are gay. When he isn’t writing, Ryan can be found tweeting, watching – and playing – Countdown or enjoying cuddles with his two golden retrievers. In conclusion, by writing this review I have talked myself down from giving this book 2 stars, and now I’m rating it just the one. Both Arthur and Teddy are engaging main characters, and there is a good balance so you’re never itching to get back to the other narrator. I found the exploration of his past and the all too familiar story of an older generation having to live their life closeted sensitively and well-written.