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Another month has passed. Another wrap up is about to be served to you! I'm still a bit in a slump but I'm also busy so I don't have a lot of time to read anyway. In August I finished three books, all of which I borrowed from the library as I finally got a library card. It's really freeing to have one again, to be honest. It has been a few years and I realized I missed that. "Renegades" by Marissa Meyer Pages: 576 Genre: Science-Fantasy Age Range: Young Adult Year of Release: 2017 Read in: English Original language: English This is a cute story about a world of superheroes and supervillains. In parts it is a bit cheesy but that's typical for the genre. In Renegades the group of that name defeated the big supervillain group "Anarchists" some years back, and the Anarchists don't like how things have turned out since then. Our main character Nova is one of them and ends up infiltrating the Renegades. Overall, it has the typical ...

A/N: Please check what I wrote in the disclaimer at the bottom before proceeding. It's concerning the ratings used and the usage of the word "queer". Even today in our so supposedly open-minded society we still struggle with representation of various kinds in media. Often it doesn't exist, sometimes it exists in horrible ways, and sometimes it's actually good. No matter where in the LGBTQIA+ community one fits, one has seen at least one of the various queer representations on TV and in movies. Still there are people out there who think it's getting too much or that we shouldn't be seen, especially in works made for children and teens. But those are the most important works. If you ever struggled with your sexuality as a teen it would have been so good to actually see yourself on screen like straight kids did all the time and still mostly do. With this series of posts I want to talk not only about works like that but about all versions of queer repr...