How to Fly by Alyson Greaves
dates read: 2025/01/19 - 01/23
Book 1 of When You Fell From Heaven. Alyson Greaves's (Sisters of Dorley author!!) cheerleader story. Basically it's What If Bring It On Had A Trans Girl.
Maxwell, a totally male gymnast, gets for very contrived reasons in a situation where he's gotta be in drag and quickly discovers it's not drag at all. Her neighbor, Taylor, helps her out while figuring her own sexuality out and of course recruiting Max for the cheerleading squad.
It's basically a cute romance set in early 2000s California, straight out of tv and movies of the era. There's lots of queer teens dealing with being closeted and boymoding. god, I kind of hate that it feels nostalgic lol.
I really really enjoyed this, life has been a lot lately and it's wonderful having this as a comforting distraction from everything. Fuck.