In Julia Watt's Finding H.F., I found the titular character, a lesbian teenager H.F. (short for Heavenly Faith) the most likeable.
The traits that drew me to the character was her disarming laid-back attitude. As a reader, I can immediately connect to her feelings regarding her first big crush (Wendy) and how she processes any little action toward her from the object of her affection. Wendy describes H.F. as a storyteller and any reader can agree with the description. It makes H.F. the perfect person to tell this story -- while it may have been interesting from Bo's perspective, I cannot say I'd be interested to hear it from Wendy's. H.F.'s voice is what kept me reading as well as her frank emotions.
The pleasure I take from the book and the character can be attributed greatly to Watt's writing -- from H.F.'s perspective, we truly see the world as she sees it. Her voice is very strong and vivid and at once, charming.
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I have to agree. When I was reading Finding H.F., I found the story of H.F. to be familiar to me. I was also intrigued by the way her story was written. I think it is interesting that you bring up H.F.'s voice in the story, because I had not considered hearing the story from any other perspective. Even now that I have considered it, I still cannot imagine any voice working as well as H.F.'s.
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