2.5 starsIf this weren't a middle grade book, I'd suggest doing a drinking game with all the LGBTQIA characters the authors managed to squeeze in...

This book fuses otherness together in such a way that sparks every empathetic nerve in my body. I want to be Felix' s friend. This is such a weird, wonderful and wildly unique story.

This book was good for many reasons. As weird as the concept is, a boy fused with an alien from a 4th dimension, the book also conveys a message of acceptance in a very human way. I love the inclusion of characters who don’t fit neatly into societal norms, like Grandy, who is sometimes Vera and sometimes Verne, and yet, even though there is ample exploration of the issues of gender and sexual preference, that is not the focus of this novel. Written in diary format, Felix’s story and struggle, as...

Pop quiz! You like cute books. You also like diverse books. And you enjoy YA and kids books. Question: will you like Felix Yz?(tick tock tick tock…)Answer: Yes! Most definitely YES!! This is a very long review. I suggest you read it on my blog, cause Goodreads does not have such formatting capabilities. Reasons to like Felix Yz? This is, like, the most diverse book ever. If you thought you read diverse? This is probably more diverse. How? For starters, Felix is… pretty much disabled

Here's yet another review of a science fiction book that I really liked in which I start with the explanation that I don't usually read science fiction, but this book is an exception. I think I need to give up the idea that I don't read science fiction. I do. But just as I don't read mysteries for the murders, I don't read science fiction for the science. I read for characters and connections. And Felix Yz is all about connections and disconnections. The central connection and disconnection is b...

This book was soooooo out there - but I really loved it. The sci-fi element (that Felix is fused with an alien/fourth-dimensional being) was kind of hard to wrap my brain around at first - but once I did (and once I suspended my need to have answers for every question) I enjoyed the story SO much. It was based on such a unique, fascinating concept. I loved how so many important issues were touched on (identity, bullying, gender fluidity, LGBTQ+ acceptance, grief/loss, depression, etc.) in such a...

So, yeah, this book was bananas. And I was warned about that. But I think I could have gotten on board if I could have figured out where it was going with everything. I guess I never connected with Felix in a way that made me care about his story, possibly because there was a LOT going on that was distracting to the central story. I appreciate the efforts of the author to include a diverse cast of characters, but it all felt like too much going on and I was never able to latch onto a thread that...

I listen to the audiobook of this title as it was on my public library’s 2018 Mock Newbery list. On one hand, I loved Felix’s voice & the countdown to “zero day” really added to the tension and complexity of the story. I also loved the banter between Felix & his fused alien. I can see the concept pulling in many readers.However, on the other hand, I felt like there was too much going on. Gender-fluid grandparent, bisexual Mom, dead dad, prodigy sister, a hidden family secret & first crush on a b...

Alien infested gay teen, dead scientist dad, bisexual mom, obnoxious mom's boyfriend, genderfluid grandparent, piano prodigy sister, and biracial love interest. ALL of these people are great and I'm glad I met them, but it's an overwhelming experience to go through considering the whole book is a countdown to the day of The Procedure which may separate Felix and his tender and poetic inner alien OR may kill him.

The writing style is hard to get into at first, but it makes more sense as the story progresses, and I'm sure kids would love the silliness of it. It's essentially the stream of consciousness of a 13-year-old and the alien fused inside him that occasionally takes over his body. It includes LGBT themes as Felix grapples with his attraction to his friend Hector, and understanding Grandy (Felix's gender fluid grandparent) who dresses like a woman three days a week, like a man three days a week, and...

Twenty-nine days until ZeroDay. I'm counting down. Twenty-nine days to go. Thirteen year old Felix Yz has a somewhat...unusual life. ...when I was little there was an accident with a secret machine my dad was working on, and I got fused at the atomic level with a hyperintelligent being from the fourth dimension. Zyx, the hyperintelligent being, has been Felix's companion for as long as he can remember. But the older he gets, the more problems that arise. ...if we stay fused together for t

Felix has spent most of his life fused to another entity. Getting unstuck means undergoing a risky surgery, so Felix begins a journal (with the help of Zyx) to document the final days leading up to the Procedure. Lab accidents and loss. The Pose and planes of existence. School bullies and first loves. Comics and fandoms. Harmony Street and pronouns that start with "v." A little erratic, since Felix's journal entries tend to jump around, but whenever we were given a scene, I was pulled right in.

ARC provided by publisherFelix has some challenges in his life. When he was a toddler, his father was babysitting him in his lab when an experiment went terribly wrong. His father was killed, and Felix ended up fused with a fourth dimensional being named Zyx. Felix can hear Zyx in his brain, and Zyx can also type in order to communicate. Having Zyx inhabiting his body causes Felix to have verbal processing problems, as well as some mobility issues. These cause people at school to make fun of him...

Enjoyed this (with some qualms); will want to review hopefully soon. One of the very, very few children's books that imo *gets* queer families, both biological and found families. There should be a LOT more discussion about this book. Trans woman author!!! Major press!!! Actually gender diverse middle grade!!!! Science fiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I got a bit carried away. What I'm trying to say here is, this book fills so many gaps, and yet it did not seem to get much push from the kidlit blogo...

This book has one of the coolest plots. Felix Yz is a thirteen-year-old boy. A decade ago, during an experiment his father was conducting, Felix was at the wrong place at the wrong time when it went kaboom. The explosion, though not huge, killed his father and left Felix merged with a fourth dimensional being. Felix and his family call the fourth dimensional being Zyx. And as nice as Zyx is, vo and Felix need to be separated or they'll both die. Though the separating procedure could kill them to...

For a large part of this book, I struggled with analyzing it instead of relaxing and just enjoying it. And of course, once you're in analyze mode you just keep noticing things. Some of that was the language: anytime a book uses language in a different way than I'm used to, it takes me longer to get into. First, there's the way the writing switches between Felix and Zyx. Despite Zyx's being hyperintelligent and having been merged with Felix since Felix was 3, Zyx does not communicate effectively

I liked it, but I didn't love it.

3.5/5 starsThis was an enjoyable book and a quick read -- I was able to finish the audiobook within one work day. While the main premise of the book -- a 13 year old boy who's body is fused with an alien being's conscious - is science-fiction, the overall story is much more contemporary.13 year-old Felix has been connected to alien being Zyx, since he was 3 years old - the result of a science experiment gone wrong, that also killed Felix's father. Ten years later, it has been determined that if

I'm kind of torn on this one. On the one hand it was delightfully silly and weird (alien fused with a kid, invisible to everyone else) but also heartwarming and heartfelt (beautiful family love and musings on nature of existence). I also loved how many queer and trans characters it included (gay boy, bi mom, gender fluid grandparent)! On the other hand I'm unsure about the messages the end of the book gives: 1) Felix is 'cured' of the alien occupation that also serves as a representation of disa...

This book didn't do the best job of holding my attention, but there were several moments of audible reaction from me throughout (always a sign of good writing). What this book did very well was casual diversity. How refreshing to be in a world where most people are queer, being queer isn't anyone's defining trait, and the fact of their queerness just comes up naturally in the course of narration or conversation. That makes this a book I've been waiting for for a very long time.