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Start giftingThe No-Girlfriend Rule
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Natalie Naudus
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Length
9 hours 50 minutes
Language
English
Bookseller recommendation
“For fans of Felix Ever After and Gwen and Art Are Not in Love. This coming-of-age YA romance is all about being true to yourself and enjoying what you love. Hollis is a fat, broke girl who struggles with anxiety and just wants to find community. Through playing S&S (a Dungeons and Dragons type role playing game), she gains the confidence to make new friends and accept herself. Funny, queer, and adorable, this read was everything I wanted it to be! ”
— Julie • All Good Books
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“Absolutely adorable and a soothing balm for anxious hearts. Classic bits of sapphic culture had me screaming at my phone (playlists? bangs??) and I could not wait for Hollis to leave her toxic boy group behind and flourish among her new girlfriends. Randall does a great job at showing how toxic male gaming culture extends to TTRPGs, and how queer and femme spaces within gaming culture can become such safe spaces, even if you don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Great romance, great meta fantasy, great queer, anxiety, and fat rep. Definitely a great pick for a cozy read. ”
— Lauren • Chapterhouse Books
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“This is not just a love story; it’s also a self-love story. This book is beautiful and is such a (gentle) emotional adventure, navigating new friendships, changing through life, and coming out of one’s shell. As someone who struggles with anxiety and found a safe space within TTRPGs, I found myself connecting with the protagonist more than I expected! I recommend this for any lover of TTRPGs and a good sapphic romance! ”
— Ling-Tam • Katy Budget Books
An instant USA TODAY bestseller
Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and a shot at real, swoon-worthy love.
Hollis Beckwith isn’t trying to get a girl—she’s just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings enough to worry about. And besides, she already has a boyfriend: Chris. Their relationship isn’t particularly exciting, but it’s comfortable and familiar, and Hollis wants it to survive beyond senior year. To prove she’s a girlfriend worth keeping, Hollis decides to learn Chris’s favorite tabletop roleplaying game, Secrets & Sorcery—but his unfortunate “No Girlfriends at the Table” rule means she’ll need to find her own group if she wants in.
Enter: Gloria Castañeda and her all-girls game of S&S! Crowded at the table in Gloria’s cozy Ohio apartment, the six girls battle twisted magic in-game and become fast friends outside it. With her character as armor, Hollis starts to believe that maybe she can be more than just fat, anxious, and a little lost.
But then an in-game crush develops between Hollis’s character and the bard played by charismatic Aini Amin-Shaw, whose wide, cocky grin makes Hollis’s stomach flutter. As their gentle flirting sparks into something deeper, Hollis is no longer sure what she wants…or if she’s content to just play pretend.
Christen Randall (she/they) is a queer, fat, neurodivergent author of queer, fat, neurodiverse books. When they’re not writing joyful stories for the next generation of geeky gay kids, you can find them working at their local library branch or at home planning all the D&D campaigns they’ll run one day, they swear. Christen lives in Covington, Kentucky. The No-Girlfriend Rule is her debut novel. Visit Christen online at ByChristenRandall.com and on social media @ByCRandall.