Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Meet Cute Diary

Emery Lee

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 4, 2021

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Who it’s for
A trans teen’s first love tests the distance between romance imagined and romance lived.
Themes
Transgender identity, First love, Authenticity in relationships
Genres
YA Transgender, YA Romance - LGBTQ+, Romantic Comedy for Teens

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About this book

Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships. * A 2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist Selection * A Junior Library Guild Selection * Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem—all the stories are fake.

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What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans readers across the globe. When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah’s world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn’t have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah’s life, and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. But when Noah’s feelings grow beyond their staged romance, he realizes that dating in real life isn’t quite the same as finding love on the page. In this charming novel by Emery Lee, Noah will have to choose between following his own rules for love or discovering that the most romantic endings are the ones that go off script.

Love Off Script

A trans teen’s first love tests the distance between romance imagined and romance lived.

Come here for

  • A warm YA rom-com with a trans teen at its heart
  • The spark between staged romance and real feelings

Expect

  • Heartfelt questions about perfect relationships
  • A love story that doesn’t follow its own rules

Where it sits

YA Transgender65%
YA Romance - LGBTQ+62%
Romantic Comedy for Teens51%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Stories About Boys & Men
  • Coming of Age
  • Diverse YA Fiction
  • YA Stories About Girls & Women
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  • YA LGBTQ+
  • Contemporary YA Romance
  • YA Romance - LGBTQ+
  • Romantic Comedy for Teens
Authors
Emery Lee
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
May 4, 2021
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Transgender identity · First love · Authenticity in relationships
Reading lane
YA Stories About Boys & Men