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Riverdale meets Love, Simon in this modern, fresh YA debut about an unapologetically queer teen working to uncover a blackmailer threatening him back into the closet.
Jack has a lot of sex - and he's not ashamed of it. While he's sometimes ostracized and gossip constantly rages about his sex life, Jack always believes that "it could be worse".
But then, the worse unexpectedly strikes: When Jack starts writing a teen sex-advice column for an online site, he begins to receive creepy and threatening love letters that attempt to force Jack to curb his sexuality and personality. Now, it's up to Jack and his best friends to uncover the stalker - before their love becomes dangerous.
Ground-breaking and pause-resisting, Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) celebrates the freedom to be oneself, especially in the face of adversity.
Critic reviews
"The dearth of sex-positive YA literature - particularly sex-positive queer literature - makes this book an essential addition to library collections that serve teens." (School Library Journal, starred review)
"A sex-positive and thoughtful romp with humor and heart." (Kirkus Reviews)
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Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other Schools. At Hamilton High, it’s a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight or haze a freshman. And on three separate occasions Randy’s car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend’s attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: She and the other players’ girlfriends go on a hookup strike.
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A great read
- By Valerie StuckInBooks on 01-29-12
By: Kody Keplinger
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Blurred Lines
- By: Lauren Layne
- Narrated by: Mason Lloyd, Allison Pike
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the connection is immediate - and platonic. Six years later, they're still best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland's trendy Northwest District as they happily settle into adult life. But when Parker's boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, she starts to wonder about Ben's no-strings-attached approach to dating. The trouble is, even with Ben as her wingman, Parker can't seem to get the hang of casual sex - until she tries it with him.
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Meh...
- By Britney S on 06-12-16
By: Lauren Layne
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Mr. Popular
- By: Nicole London
- Narrated by: Tyler Ryan, Laurie Winkel
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Liam "Mr. Popular" Carter will always be the closest thing to the "walking plague" in my eyes. His cockiness seeps through his every move, and no matter how many state championships he wins with the basketball team, he will forever be a "loss" to me. Because he's my older brother's best friend, I'm forced to tolerate him, and he's forced to tolerate me. In fact, unless my brother is around, we happily ignore each other every chance we get. It wasn't always this way, though....
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high school
- By Smiller4208 on 11-16-18
By: Nicole London
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Cracked Up to Be
- By: Courtney Summers
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Perfect Parker Fadley isn't so perfect anymore. She's quit the cheerleading squad, she's dumped her perfect boyfriend, and she's failing school. Her parents are on a constant suicide watch and her counselors think she's playing games, but they don't know that the real reason for this whole mess isn't something she can say out loud. It isn't even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened and it just might be her fault.
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The best book I've ever read
- By Sam on 11-11-15
By: Courtney Summers
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- By: John Green, David Levithan
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Nick Podehl
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with...Will Grayson. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, and culminating in epic turns-of-heart and the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high school stage.
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Brilliant.
- By Klasandria on 01-24-24
By: John Green, and others
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F*ck Love
- By: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Helena Conway has fallen in love. Unwillingly. Unwittingly. But not unprovoked. Kit Isley is everything she's not - unstructured, untethered, and not even a little bit careful. It could all be so beautiful...if he wasn't dating her best friend. Helena must defy her heart, do the right thing, and think of others. Until she doesn't.
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Left me feeling confused?
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 09-15-16
By: Tarryn Fisher
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The Fame Game
- By: Lauren Conrad
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In Hollywood, fame can be found on every corner and behind any door. You just have to know where to look for it. Nineteen-year-old Madison Parker made a name for herself as best frenemy of nice-girl-next-door Jane Roberts on the hot reality show L.A. Candy. Now Madison's ready for her turn in the spotlight and she'll stop at nothing to get it. Sure, she's the star of a new show, but with backstabbing friends and suspicious family members trying to bring her down, Madison has her work cut out for her.
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One of the best narrators I've ever heard!
- By Kindle Customer on 05-09-17
By: Lauren Conrad
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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
- By: Jaye Robin Brown
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of her new friend at school. But Jo couldn't possibly think of breaking her promise to her dad.
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Straitest lesbian romance I’ve ever read
- By Anonymous User on 05-13-22
By: Jaye Robin Brown
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Ophelia After All
- By: Racquel Marie
- Narrated by: Maria Liatis
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys - way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless stream of crushes, but Ophelia is a romantic at heart. She couldn’t change, even if she wanted to.
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YA Gem 💎
- By Anonymous User on 02-18-22
By: Racquel Marie
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The Best Laid Plans
- By: Cameron Lund
- Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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When the only other virgin in her group of friends loses it at Keely's own 18th birthday party, she's inspired to take things into her own hands. She wants to have that experience too (well, not exactly like that - but with someone she trusts and actually likes), so she's going to need to find the guy, and fast. Problem is, she's known all the boys in her small high school forever, and it's kinda hard to be into a guy when you watched him eat crayons in kindergarten.
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Good
- By Steff on 08-06-20
By: Cameron Lund
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
- By: Ned Vizzini
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.
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Really bad story
- By Nora on 08-20-18
By: Ned Vizzini
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Awkward
- By: Marni Bates
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 8 hrs
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I'm Mackenzie Wellesley, and I've spent my life avoiding the spotlight. But that was four million hits ago... Blame it on that grade school ballet recital, when I tripped and pulled the curtain down, only to reveal my father kissing my dance instructor. At Smith High, I'm doing a pretty good job of being the awkward freshman people only notice when they need help with homework. Until I send a burly football player flying with my massive backpack, and make a disastrous - not to mention unwelcome - attempt at CPR.
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Loved it
- By Mrs. Kiczula on 03-05-21
By: Marni Bates
What listeners say about Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts)
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- Quinten
- 07-13-19
Amazing reader! He does amazing voices good story
Really good reader that can make the characters come to life with subtile voice changes. Good story aswell but he could have just looked at the camera of his building to be honest to solve it a bit sooner you really feel Jack's despair tho. I really liked the characters and I think the sneaky advise the writer put in could really help a bunch of people.
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- Dustin Street
- 03-08-20
An Evolution in Reading
This book was a roller coaster for me. I have been curious about it since it came out a couple years ago. I think the subject matter here is very important. Sex positivity carries a certain stigma, and it fails to adequately address the very real fact that teenagers ARE HAVING SEX. There’s nothing we can do to stop that.
But what we can do is equip them with the proper tools to engage safely and with as little risk as possible. It’s sad, though, that they’d have to turn to a book like this in order to get key educational points about it, rather than that information being readily available to them elsewhere.
It’s especially concerning that LGBT+ teens have even less access to important information. This book definitely addresses that, as well as other problematic issues, including the weird trend of straight girls fetishizing gay boys and men and their behaviors, relationships, etc. This book shone a light on that issue in a very nuanced way that I definitely appreciated.
My big problem with this book was Jack himself. I found it really difficult to relate to him as a character, in spite of all the good he was doing in the story in writing his sex column for Jenna’s website. I found him to be obnoxiously privileged, and seemingly proud of that fact (constantly referring to himself as rich). I also found some of his personal decisions difficult. Like...why would he really not go to the police over the stalking? It just seemed contrary to his character.
Jack admits several times to being a stereotype of what people think gay guys are by default. And I guess that bothered me a little bit, because my experiences with the LGBT+ community have been different. Where there was nuance in other issues, the portrayal of a gay male in this story seemed to lack any nuance whatsoever. Jack was just straight up unlikable for me throughout most of the book.
But by the end I realized something important, and it’s what drove me to give the book 4 stars.
Maybe it was the author’s intention to present Jack this way in order to make a very important point: it doesn’t matter what someone looks like, acts like, dresses like, etc. No one deserves to be bullied or stalked or made to feel uncomfortable in their own skin. Not even someone with whom it’s hard to identify or with whose actions we don’t always agree. Even if Jack is rich, privileged, bitchy, rebellious, shallow, a self-proclaimed slut...none of that matters. He didn’t deserve what he was put through.
The other big message of this book is that there’s no right or wrong way to be gay or different. Everyone has their own experience. Everyone has to blaze their own trail and figure things out in their own time. And that’s not just true of gay people...and in that way, anyone could learn something from this story.
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- Keith G
- 02-18-20
Where's Shaggy?
It's a good story and although it doesn't break any original ground. It is told in an entertaining way. I'm not sure if there's a connection, but it does seem like the basic narrative was inspired by the Netflix series Sex Education. I'll get back to that and just a bit.
A really cool thing about this book is that although it’s aimed at the late teen (and then some) market, it doesn't shy away from sex nor does it moralize the value of finding one true love whom one will be faithful to forever. The author is letting the teenagers be teenagers.
In my reviews, I don't put a lot of time into outlining a plot. You can get that from somebody else. I spend my time talking about how the story works. And sometimes, how it doesn't.
The author toiled overtime creating three distinct narratives that are woven into one storyline. Any one of these narratives could have been fully fluffed out to form its own book.
The first storyline covers Jack has a student, friend, and a sexual being experimenting with the frontiers of his sexuality. Another narrative concerns a contrivance as Jack becomes a sex advice columnist. It’s more entertaining and well done than it might initially sound.
The last narrative was created to be the engine of the entire story and is used for dramatic tension and page-turning stimulus. It is the least well-done of the narratives and at times I felt distracted from my enjoyment of the first two. It is a mystery / Thriller narrative that our group of friends chooses to pursue as they become a group of young detectives and I couldn't help thinking that I had experienced this type of story somewhere before. Oh, yes, Scooby-Doo.
Once I thought about that, the similarities never left me, and I was a bit distracted from an otherwise well-written story. I felt it got a little hammy, unnecessary, and had the kids acting in ways that challenged my suspension of disbelief. Ruh-Roh!
Created and written by a gay male, Jack is an interesting and fun person to get to know. So many female writers of gay male fiction are very clumsy as they try to create a workable psyche for their gay male antagonists. Every moment spent with Jack was enjoyable. Author Lev Rosen did a splendid job creating his leading guy.
I hope he feels an inclination to create more stories involving adventurous, sex-positive males leads who not yet ready to settle down. In my mind, there's a lot of interesting real estates that can be covered in stories about the trade-offs involving the many choices facing young gay males that don't automatically involve a Relentless path to a HEA.
Aside from the mystery, another weaker part of the story was the lack of effort in fleshing out the group of friends. They were interesting folk and I would like to know more about them, but it was quite obvious that they were simply a means to an end and not a lot was going to be said about their deeper lives.
I also get a bit put off when adults in authority are either so compliant or negligent to the needs of high school kids in these types of stories. I won't go through the checklist of where the story went wrong in this regard, but it was more than once and it was frustrating because with just a little more writing Rosen could have created situations with these adults that actually reflected the way the world usually works.
One additional thing that rather irked me: As a writer who provided sexual advice to those in need, Jack wrote in very explicit terms. However, when the Lev Rosen turned his attention to creating scenes involving Jack romancing other males, it became the very opposite of explicit.
What gives? It seemed as if it was more permissible to write explicitly about a theoretical sexual performance then to write explicitly about the main character exploring his sexuality with a person of his choice.
I will give a tip of the hat to the author for the way he included a user's guide to the politics and responsibilities of consensual sex as Jack was writing his columns. It was a very entertaining part of the story with many important topics opened for discussion. Only occasionally did the process seemed a bit didactic. Based on other works of fiction that have tried this, it's a very difficult line to walk and Rosen did a very good job doing it.
The narrator was perfect, and I certainly will look up his other projects.
I don't know how many stars to give this. Five stars imply perfection, of which this story falls just a bit short, but I don't like sticking it with four stars. So, five it is with the reservations I've noted and with the hope that Lev Rosen understands the weaknesses in the story and finds ways to correct them in what I think will be a very bright future writing wonderful stories.
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- Mason
- 09-27-19
Great Book!
I really enjoyed this audiobook. The preformance was really good and I loved the queer/sex positive take on highschool as a queer person who didn't have this sort of story when they were in highschool. The story was good but it got a little frustrating towards the end, tho.
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