Literally everything about Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl feels natural and I'm so happy about it. Similarly to Monique, I've had a really unhealthy relationship with sex for most of my life and this book made me feel so safe and seen. And most importantly, it was this idea of how much fear can try to dictate our life and how it can stop us from achieving everything that is out there waiting for us. Many relationships deteriorate because a lack of humility or willingness to see yourself on a level with your kids. I found it way easy to get tangled re relationships, religion was a key element of the process with me.

After surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. This is also the first time I’ve ever seen vaginismus recognised and discussed at length healthily in teen fiction - which is so incredible! The second novel about a preacher's daughter in small-town Texas and her journey toward loving herself and her body. A compassionate novel that encourages teens to prioritize the control, safety, and comfort of their own bodies.

C. Rosen, in which a young gay teen plays Dear Abby anonymously to the anxious and curious teens in his school who have sex questions. The story of Monique coming into herself, and realizing some situation that she was in was a little more toxic than she had initially noticed it was something that was very enjoyable for me to read. I deeply related to Monique's feelings about her body seeming broken, and her intense discomfort with anything explicitly sexual. Overall, this is a heartfelt, inspiring and thoroughly insatiable story of self love, body positivity and reclaiming your sexual identity that YA romance lovers simply must read!

And acknowledged that you can be wrong regardless of how old you are and it’s never too late to make amends. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. I didn't think it would be possible for me to like this one as much as Joya Goffney's debut (which I LOVED) but I think I actually have a new favourite. A triumph in not just dynamite contemporary fiction but also in critiquing purity culture and the harm it can do. This is a beautifully crafted and compelling story that I know will be invaluable to many readers who might—like Monique—might not have access to sexual health services or information.

But, with her parents thoughts on sex before marriage ever present and her boyfriends pressure to get intimate, Monique is torn. She's torn between her parents who want the pure virginal daughter, and her boyfriend, Dom, who wants to explore the more intimate. It was refreshing watching Monique slowly discover what she wants, and breaking away from that alleged good girl image. But I’m doing so, she must face some home truths: maybe she shouldn’t be fixing her body to please a boy, maybe Sasha was the friend she’s need all along and maybe Reggie isn’t so bad after all. Aleman’s narrative joins the ranks of heart-wrenching stories of migrant families who have been separated.

And the relationship between Monique and her parents is one that’s pretty similar to mine so I related to her in that sense. That sounds excellent and important, and I’m also pleased that the religious aspect is handled respectfully and carefully – I found this to be true with Yinka, Where is your Huzband, recently, and it’s refreshing to not have the religious folk be one-sided bad guys. Tired of waiting, her boyfriend breaks up with her, spurring Monique to discover she has a medical condition that makes her far from perfect and she concocts a plan to fix her body and win him back. There’s a villain 180 that will give you whiplash, but other than that, the natural ending is quite clear (for anyone who’s ever seen or read a teen love triangle romance, anyway) and it rolls up right on time. ta powieść daje możliwość, aby poczuć się w pełni zrozumianym i nie czuć się źle, że czegoś nie zrobiłeś/nie jesteś na to gotowy, tak jak twoi rówieśnicy.I grew up hearing that I must do something "because [I] said so" or "I know better because im the mother", etc, and this book explores what can happen when youth are raised with these antiquated and rigid rules.