Arden Grey, Ray Stoeve
Arden Grey, Ray Stoeve
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Arden Grey

Author: Ray Stoeve

Narrator: Sophie Amoss

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

Sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I imagine that day is the day I start over. I’m going to walk into school and be someone else, someone loud and funny, with a posse of friends …

Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey is struggling. Her mom has left their family, her father and younger brother won’t talk about it, and a classmate, Tanner, keeps harassing her about her sexuality—which isn’t even public. (She knows she likes
girls romantically, but she thinks she might be asexual.) At least she’s got her love of film photography and her best and only friend Jamie to help her cope.

But when Jamie starts dating his first girlfriend, suddenly he isn’t so reliable.

Arden starts feeling insecure about their friendship. She starts to wonder if she’s jealous or if Jamie’s relationship with Caroline is somehow unhealthy—and it makes her reconsider how much of her relationship with her absent mom wasn’t okay, too.

Filled with big emotions, first loves, and characters navigating toxic relationships, Ray Stoeve’s honest and nuanced novel is about finding your place in the world and seeking out the love and community that you deserve.

About Ray Stoeve

Ray Stoeve is the author of the young adult novel Between Perfect and Real, which was a 2021 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. They also contributed to the young adult anthology Take The Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance. They received a 2016-2017 Made at Hugo House Fellowship and created the YA/MG Trans and Nonbinary Voices Masterlist, a database that tracks all books in those age categories written by trans authors about trans characters. When they're not writing, they can be found gardening, making art in other mediums, or hiking their beloved Pacific Northwest.


Reviews

Goodreads review by AboutEstelle on May 30, 2022

Il manquait pas grand chose, Maïa bis 🤍......more

Goodreads review by Denise on June 20, 2023

This book pleasantly surprised me. I went into this quite critically, since I had a lot of criticism about between perfect and real. Add to that the sad themes, which I don’t really enjoy. But the prospect of an ace mc got me here and I’m glad I read this! The book beautifully illustrates what abusi......more

Goodreads review by Kayla on February 17, 2022

Thanks for Netgalley for providing an ARC of this book. Arden Grey was a bit of a difficult book for me. I enjoyed some of the elements of the story; I loved that Arden was a photographer and her journey with overcoming her nervousness of sharing her photos with others. I also liked the scenes of her......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on May 05, 2022

This book was a bit more difficult to rate than normal. I really liked all the LGBTQIA representation with them main character, her best friend, new friends and others in her life all being some variation of queer. But the book took me about half way to get really interested in in the story. The fir......more

Goodreads review by Alex on September 01, 2021

Thanks to the publisher for providing an eARC of Arden Grey in exchange for an honest review. I'm a massive Between Perfect & Real fan so maybe it was just my expectations being too high but while I enjoyed Arden Grey, it felt kinda meh, especially knowing Ray Stoeve is capable of excellence. I like......more