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3.5 

Dear Wendy

By Ann Zhao
Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

Two aromantic and asexual college students explore friendship, relationships, and queer identities in this bestselling debut described as "The platonic love story of my dreams!" by Alice Oseman, New York Times-bestselling creator of Heartstopper!

Sophie Chi is in her first year of college and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she’ll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she’s behind the incredibly popular “Dear Wendy” account.

When Joanna “Jo” Ephron (also a first-year student and aroace) created their “Sincerely Wanda” account, it wasn’t at all meant to be taken seriously. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Wendy’s account? Oops. As if Jo’s not busy enough having existential crises over gender identity, whether she’ll ever truly be loved, and the possibility of her few friends finding The One then forgetting about her!

While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo grow closer in real life, especially once they realize their shared aroace identity. Will their friendship survive if they learn just who’s behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?

This book is a work of fiction, but it deals with real issues including depictions of aphobia (discrimination against asexual and aromantic individuals), anxiety/stress from negative social media attention, frank discussions of sex and sexuality, and various diaspora feelings.

318 Reviews

3.5
Slightly Smiling Face“Lived the AroAce representation and the conversation around it.”
Slightly Smiling Face“What I Liked: The characters are cool and likable and relatable. I absolutely loved the relationship between the two MCs (PLEASE PUT MORE QUEERPLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS IN FICTION). I liked the discussions we were having about identity and questioning and acceptance etc. What I Didn’t Like: This was going to be four stars instead of five because I felt like the writing was a little choppy at times, and there’s virtually no plot to speak of. The Instagram drama was something that I just didn’t care about at all. I ended up bumping off another 1/4 of a star because we kept name dropping Taylor Swift?? And every time I started to think “okay it’s been a bit since the last reference, maybe it’s not that bad” WE BROUGHT HER UP AGAIN. Personal pet peeve: I don’t want to hear about celebrities constantly. In general, but specially celebrities I really don’t like. It’s very annoying.”
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes“as an aroace gal, this book was very uplifting for me. i saw myself in both main characters, for very different reasons. the writing can be a little on the nose at times but i think that’s because i'm already a-spec so a lot of things were obvious to me already. but if you're not a-spec or don't understand it much, this book can explain it without getting too in the weeds. i almost wish it did go deeper at times but then it wouldn't be as light and fun so i understand the author's decision to keep it that way. overall, i'm happy a-spec people are getting fluffy stories like this”

About Ann Zhao

Ann Zhao is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she studied linguistics with a minor in women’s and gender studies. She enjoys cooking, baking, and knitting, and she does not enjoy cleaning up after herself when she’s done with these activities. Dear Wendy is her debut novel.

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