#the last true poets of the sea

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[gayest-classiclit]

ROUND 1; classic literature adaptation bracket

THE LAST TRUE POETS OF THE SEA:

based on: twelfth night, william shakespeare medium: book propaganda: 'Modern day Twelfth Night done by a woman who clearly understood the assignment. Leans hard into the “Olivia and Viola are foils” and the “Olivia and Viola are in love” which honestly is almost enough for me to give it a 10/10 out of the get go. An honest portrayal of mental illness and how it can both fuck you up and make you an asshole, but also how you can move forward in an unflinching yet very sympathetic and loving way. Has a genuinely touching sibling relationship. Also a very vivid setting.'

GHOST QUARTET:

based on: notably edgar allan poe's fall of the house of usher, but perhaps 1001 nights also medium: musical propaganda: it's ghost quartet. there are many many influences. they sing about ghosts! there are four of them!

[thirteendaysintaunton]

my sadness feels like the ocean

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake || Lost on the Grand Banks (1885) by Winslow Homer || @matrose || Ship in a Storm (1887) by Ivan Aivazovsky || Malak El Halabi

[bookshelfmonkey]

queer books for pride month: day 5

The Last True Poets of the Sea- Julia Drake

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ rep.: sapphic MC & sapphic LI, wlw relationship CW: alcohol/marijuana use, anxiety attacks, bullying (discussed), death (discussed), depression, grief (discussed), hospitalisation, adult/minor relationships (mentioned), kiss between 12 and 16 yo, suicide attempt

Plot: After her brother, Sam, attempts suicide, Violet's parents realise that both their children are falling apart. Whilst her brother is in treatment, Violet is sent to her family home to stay with her uncle. There, she finds a new group of friends and becomes determined to find the shipwreak that landed her family in the seaside town of Lyric.

Why I'd recommend this book: I'm aging out of the YA target audience, and I've read so many YA contemporary novels that it's rare that one of them will catch my attention like this one did. It encapsulates everything that YA can do really well such as coming-of-age, family relationships, mental health. I also really like books that are set by the sea.

For those of you who haven't seen my older posts, I'm recommending one queer book/series for each day of pride month (although I'm behind already). If you have any requests for specific genres/representation/anything else that you'd like me to recommend, please lmk :)

[luxaofhesperides]

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake.

Survival was its own quest: we needed to choose to survive over and over again. We had to wash up on shore, and we had to choose to keep washing up every single day. We had to let the survival accrue, pebble after pebble, building a beach from a million tiny moments until suddenly we stopped, looked around, and thought, on a Saturday in Maine, I'm glad we're here.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

read this read this read this READ THIS

[getwreckedddd]

In the fog, she kissed me once, very quickly, and it felt like courage.

Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

[lexalovesbooks]

The last true poets of the sea has me mumbling “hey girl, nice forehead” to myself at least once a day still now three years after reading it

[titan-r]

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Quick Review: The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake Rating: 4/5

“Know it once and for all: wrecks, not discoveries, are in your blood.”

A beautiful, quiet story about an anxious girl trying to deal with almost losing her twin brother by hunting for a lost shipwreck. Violet was more chaotic and messy than a lot of YA heroines which I loved and it was exciting seeing her grow over the course of the novel. Her romance with Liv is lovely but the way she heals her relationship with her brother is the best part.

If you like seaside stories or Shakespeare retellings that don't hammer on about being Shakespeare retellings, definitely check this out.

Warnings: anxiety, panic attacks, mild sex scenes, references to drug use, a suicide attempt and an eating disorder.          

[paragon-of-anxiety]

thinking about how Violet saw Liv slap a mosquito on Orion's leg and realised she wanted that. someone to realise she was being bitten by a mosquito before she herself did.

[thelabryslibrary]

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake Podcast

Ahoy! Come aboard the Lyric for this sapphic retelling of 12th Night. We cover teen gay angst and teen gay love in this seaside epic. Warning there is discussion of depression and suicide, so fair warning if that's not your ish. 

[autistickhunsam]

— Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

[thirteendaysintaunton]

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

[vlsapphire]

'We’d be a love out of time and space, ethereal, destined, and her dreams would take shape around my song. I’d teach the hills to say her name, and the winds and the trees and water, too, so that that the elements would love her, so that everywhere she went, no matter where, she’d hear the world crying out for her, calling over and over: “Liv Stone, Liv Stone, Liv Stone!”'

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake

: oh my god. this book!!!!!! i'm crying, i just read one of the most beautiful book with a beautiful sapphic love story in my life. i ignored this book for a long time and it was CLEARLY a mistake.

ps: you will absolutely love the main character's humor too !!

[lewis-winters]

Just realised Arthur inherits his Need To Run from Sylvie as much as Thomas and now I just need to scream for thirty minutes - Nathan

now I'M running away. specifically from this realization. because it HURTS me.