Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Which sounds a little weird maybe, seeing as the book deals with the MC's upcoming open heart surgery, but the book doesn't feel heavy at all. It was so clever and so effective, especially knowing that it was directly from the author's own emotional experience.

Everything you could want from a YA book, great characters, zingy one-liners, and a swoony as heck romance. Together with his childhood friends and new love interests he will try to juggle directing a movie, trying to find a boyfriend, the idea of heart surgery and the simple stress of being a teenager.

I love how nowadays a cover with two cute gay boys on it is seen as a major selling point rather than an obstacle. My one gripe is that there is some miscommunication which went on for too long and I found a bit annoying, but it didn't take too much away from my enjoyment. Before filming even begins Jesse has heart complications after witnessing his best friend Cas kissing someone that isn’t his girlfriend, being caught and then threatened by the girlfriends brother.

Jesse Spark has a broken heart and in a few short weeks he’ll require major surgery to repair it – which means he only has a month to accomplish two almost-impossible tasks. Fall in love before this surgery lands him with a huge scar - because how will anyone ever fancy him after that? I was so intrigued by the whole situation with his friends, I really wanted to understand it all and could barely stop reading so I found out. I don’t care if some situations/scenes are a little over the top because everything is so matching and cute.

Ich weiß nicht, was ich noch sagen soll, außer, dass meine Erwartungen bei weitem übertroffen wurden. In both books the main characters feel like they are missing a huge part of the story and are they desperate to find out what's happening. I think Jesse is quite a relateable teenage character, and his passion and talent for movie making was inspiring and believable and not overdone. The motivations of some characters were intriguing, but the resolution tied everything up beautifully.

Broken Hearts and Zombie Parts is a very personal story, and if you follow William on social media, you probably know why. Sex Education meets Love, Simon - with fake zombies - in this savagely funny gay YA romance about body image, self-acceptance and falling in love, all while shooting a low-budget zombie flick!Some of the plot "twists" were quite evident from context, but that didn't completely remove their impact. Brilliant representation of up to the minute issues faced by both young and older people around body issues. This was just so much fun, I was expecting this and it didn’t disappoint at all, it delivered everything I wanted and more.