Review: Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher

"Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history.

It’s been hundreds of years since King Arthur’s reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other.

They’re forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy and Arthur has gone digging for Gwen's childhood diary and found confessions about her crush on the kingdom's only lady knight, Bridget Leclair.

Realizing they might make better allies than enemies, they make a reluctant pact to cover for each other, and as things heat up at the annual royal tournament, Gwen is swept off her feet by her knight and Arthur takes an interest in Gwen's royal brother. Lex Croucher's Gwen and Art Are Not in Love is chock full of sword-fighting, found family, and romantic shenanigans destined to make readers fall in love."

Pages: 432

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Happy Thursday! ✨

And a very happy Book Birthday to the amazing Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher! I received a beautiful ARC of Gwen & Art for free in exchange for an honest review! Thank you so much to the lovely Nina & Bloomsbury Kids for my copy!

I have been so excited to read this book! It was one of my most anticipated reads for the year and this is one of the coolest proofs I have ever received, the scratch off reveal was so fun!

Everything about this book was so FUN! The humour throughout had me in stitches! I haven’t read a book that has made me fully laugh out loud in so long. The references and jokes had me dyinggg! I knew from the first few pages that I was going to LOVE this and it has become one of my favourite reads of the year so far! I’ve ordered Reputation and Infamous by Lex Croucher as well so I can devour them too!

I fell in love with the characters and loved all of the hijinks they got into! I don’t think I’ve ever related to a character more than when Gwen saw the dreamy female knight Bridget and said “I hope she stabs me”😂

Gwen & Art Are Not In Love is a hilarious and heartwarming story that I couldn’t put down!