Out of the blue by Jason June- book tour

Hello and welcome to my stop for “Out of the blue” book tour! Thank you so much, Tbr and beyond tours, for having me!

**Genre:** Young Adult Fantasy
**Publishing date:** May 31st, 2022
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**Rep:** Gay, Queer, Nonbinary, Fat

Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must undergo. The rules are simple: Help a human within one moon cycle and return to Pacifica to become an Elder–or fail and remain stuck on land forever. Crest is eager to get their Journey over and done with: after all, humans are disgusting. They’ve pollluted the planet so much that there’s a floating island of trash that’s literally the size of a country.
In Los Angeles with a human body and a new name, Crest meets Sean, a human lifeguard whose boyfriend has recently dumped him. Crest agrees to help Sean make his ex jealous and win him back. But as the two spend more time together and Crest’s pespective on humans begins to change, they’ll soon be torn between two worlds. And fake dating just might lead to real feelings…
This sophomore novel from Jason June dives into the many definitions of the world *home* and shows how love can help us find the truest versions of ourselves.

Sean is a lifeguard, he loves rom-coms and directing, hoping he’s living his own, but everything falls apart when his boyfriend dumps him for another guy, Sean’s ex best friend. Crest is a mer and they don’t want to be on their traditional journey: a month on land where they have to help an human within one moon cycle and return to the sea or fail and remain in their human form. Now with a new name and a new body, Crest decides to help Sean getting his ex back and if that means fake dating, so that is. As they slowly get to know one other, discovering new worlds and different homes, Crest becomes more and more torn between their past and new lives, mostly when Sean and Crest fall in love.

I LOVED reading Out of the blue! Told by two different POVs, Sean’s and Crest, this book has a wonderful rep: nonbinary, queer, fat, gay, bisexual and it deals with depression, cheating, grief, loss, hope, belonging and love. Sean and Crest are amazing main characters, coming from different worlds and it was so funny and nice reading how they start to know, help, support and then love each other, getting past prejudices and misconceptions, discovering each other’s worlds. I was really fascinated by Crest’s world, their rules and traditions and I laughed so much at their presentation. It was brilliant and hilarious!

I loved the setting and the characterization, how every character, main or side one, is complex and well rounded. Sean is struggling with his grief, struggling to move on from his ex, seeing the world through cinematic eyes, almost as everything could be fixed with a good script, but he will soon learn things and people aren’t so simple. On the other hand, Crest grew up thinking humans were disgusting, exploiting and polluting the planet and they only want to get they Journey over with so they can back to their true home, missing it fiercely. Forced to live with humans, in an human body and deciding to help Sean, meeting his friend Kavya and discovering their world, slowly Crest, now named Ross, will start to see and understand things and people better. Their misunderstanding things, their ignorance of human things made me laugh so many times and I loved their interactions with Sean. They were absolutely amazing together and their bond is totally precious, how they learn a lot from one other, accepting, embracing and loving each other. How, through one other, they accept others’ realities and visions of the world.

I loved reading their journeys and their growth. While Crest starts to see human world better, getting rid of their misconceptions and false ideas, discovering things, embracing others, so Sean start a journey that began as a ploy to get his ex back with Ross’ help, but it will end with him accepting, embracing and loving himself first and not building his life around someone else.

Out of the blue is a story of self-love, queer love, all kind of love, the love you can find in the support of your family, in your friends, old and new, but mostly in oneself. It’s a love story told with sweetness and laughter, by amazing and complex characters, who went through rom-coms situations, misunderstandings, Love Declarations, magic and life. It’s filled with hilarious and sweet moments, steamy and rom-coms and I devoured this book in a day! Definitely recommended it!