I don’t want this too be too late so just gonna throw this up rn and edit it later with my notes later so look forward to learning about capacitors :)
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I’ve read all the Dorley Hall that is out so far. So I have started on When You Fell From Heaven. The cheerleader book. I had been surprised when others on BlueSky and here said it was possibly better than Dorley Hall. But I definitely see that.
Vague Spoilers as I'm halfway through the first book
It’s such a good pastiche of early 2000s teenage film. It feels like it belongs with Bring It On (which canonically did happen in their universe) and other films like that. It’s also a really good period piece, capturing how homophobic things were.
Also that there is enough pop cultural awareness of crossdressing and drag culture, but not of trans people, that supporting characters knowing about tucking or fake breasts but not of the concept of HRT or gender dysphoria etc. They even reference To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar which is film about Drag and gender but that is itself kind of confused between what is a trans woman and a drag queen.
All of the decisions that lead to Max being feminized make sense in the moment, yet gain momentum and keep domino-ing so the charade has to continue. The fact that Max goes along with things that another “male” character would outright refuse, is blindly obvious to us now, because she is simply a trans girl and these are giving her euphoria.
i caught up last week to the current chapter and the second book really takes off from where the first sets up. i really love it. max is such a sweet character.
I’m glad someone else is enjoying When You Fell From Heaven; it scratches several itches for me. I don’t want to spoil anything but if you enjoy the whole first book, the second builds on it nicely, and in my opinion it might even be better than the first.