Nothing Burns As Bright As You
HarperCollins · Paperback · April 5, 2022
Five starred reviews!
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- Who it’s for
- A YA lesbian romance with a close, readable emotional focus.
- Genres
- YA Lesbian, Novels in Verse for Teens, YA Romance - LGBTQ+
- Published
- HarperCollins, April 5, 2022
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Five starred reviews! From New York Times bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned stand-alone tale of queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friendship. Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous.
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Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren’t so easily tamed. It starts with a fire. How will it end?
What It Feels Like
A YA lesbian romance with a close, readable emotional focus.
Come here for
- LGBTQ+ YA romance framing
- friendship threaded through the love story
Expect
- category-first browsing
- light on premise, heavier on feeling
Where it sits
| YA Lesbian | 65% |
|---|---|
| Novels in Verse for Teens | 61% |
| YA Romance - LGBTQ+ | 56% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Coming of Age
- Diverse YA Fiction
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- US Historical YA
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- YA LGBTQ+
- Novels in Verse for Teens
- Indigenous Voices for Teens
- African American YA
- Authors
- Ashley Woodfolk
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 5, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Coming of Age