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    Bear, Otter, and the Kid

    By TJ Klune

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    Three years ago, Bear McKenna’s mother took off for parts unknown with her new boyfriend, leaving Bear to raise his six-year-old brother Tyson, aka the Kid. Somehow they’ve muddled through, but since he’s totally devoted to the Kid, Bear isn’t actually doing much living—with a few exceptions, he’s retreated from the world, and he’s mostly okay with that. Until Otter comes home.

    Otter is Bear’s best friend’s older brother, and as they’ve done for their whole lives, Bear and Otter crash and collide in ways neither expect. This time, though, there’s nowhere to run from the depth of emotion between them. Bear still believes his place is as the Kid’s guardian, but he can’t help thinking there could be something more for him in the world... something or someone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateAug 12, 2011
    ISBN9781613720882
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    Bear, Otter, and the Kid
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    TJ Klune

    TJ Klune is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green Creek series for adults, the Extraordinaries series for teens and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important – now more than ever – to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

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    Reviews for Bear, Otter, and the Kid

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    • 5/5
      This book deserves a 5-star!!!!Of course, who wouldn't lovePapa Bear and Otter and the nine-year-old vegetarian ecoterrorist-in-traning, Ty ?Plus , The awoseme Anna andCreed and add it more with theelderly next door neighbor Mrs.Paquinn ?And who woudn't forget the overlyattached Otter's ex-boyfriend whogot a bleeding nose from PapaBear's punch? And also thegoddamned antagonist mother whoabandoned her children with anenvelope containing $135.50? Andout of nowhere, coming back afterthree years and tried to ruin ourPapa Bear-Otter thing? Oh c'mon.But overall, I liked everything aboutthe book. I cried a bucket of tears.I laughed like there was notomorrow. And I shuddered indelight with Papa Bear and Otterlove team.
    • 5/5
      This book is not just a love story between two men; this is a love story between two brothers and their friends. The story starts when Bear’s mother decides to leave her two son’s for a man, leaving a note and just over 100 dollars telling him to take care of Tyson his 6 year old brother and make sure to pay the rent each month.

      The story is written in present tense and there is a lot of dialogue inside bear’s head, also some flashbacks to the past and present time. Even though the story was difficult to read it was written beautifully I was tempted a few times to skim some of the dialogue in Bears head as it felt like there was just too much. But I kept reading not allowing myself to put the book down. I will say it was worth the read, and I gave the book a 5 star rating.

      The friendship between Creed, Otter and Bear is strong until Bear kissed Otter, Otter takes this change in Bears behaviour as something he may have pushed or somehow coerced Bear into feeling. Otter flees for 3 year, to cover this up. Bear has never been the same since the day Otter left, knowing deep down he feels like a part of him is missing.

      The coming together, the struggles Bear faces when he realizes he is in love with a man, who happens to be his best friend’s older brother, and the daily struggles he has taking care of his brother and facing his mother years later. This is a story that I would recommend and is a must read.
    • 5/5
      I'm not a big fan of first person point of view stories, but this one as told by Bear pulled me right in. It was funny, sweet and full of raw emotion. I enjoyed it a lot. Definitely adding it to my favorites list.
    • 4/5
      4 stars. Really, really good book! Very angsty, but you just can't help but love the characters. (and The Kid just rocks!) Recommended!
    • 5/5
      What a fantastic story! I loved the dynamic between the three main characters. 4.75 Stars Highly recommend. Coming of Age/Gay for you story. Really lovely. Will look for more from this storyteller.
    • 5/5
      4.5 stars

      Minus half star 'cause I find it repetitive a couple of times.

      Oh, and a little too melodramatic for my taste. But, hey, it made me cry on several parts, so it kinda worked for me. LOL.

      It's strong. Ü
    • 5/5
      A wonderful book.
      The story was heart-breaking at times, hilarious at others, very dramatic and romantic and simply great. This one becomes a favourite because the dramatic events made me agitaged enough, that I wanted to shake the protagonist - and every book, that can make me forget that the characters in there are no real people, is brilliant imo.
    • 2/5
      Read for m/m team bingo challenge.
      The idea of the story was great, but it just didn't work for me. The beginning was strong, where Bear and Ty's mom abandon them with nothing but a crappy letter AND taking pretty much all of Bear's money. Way to kick them while they were down... Bear had to give up his scholarship and postpone attending college. All these things made it easy to start to care for Bear, Kid and their friends who formed up their new family.

      But the story kinda dragged a lot towards the middle. I rather struggled to get through because the story just didn't seem to move forward at quite a few spots. It back stepped frequently though. With generous number (it felt like to me, but I didn't count) of flashbacks. None of which I particularly enjoy in a book. And being told about the same event from three different points of view.

      One thing I was curious about: Bear and Ty's mother returned out of nowhere and make threats that results in Bear trying to break up with Otter. They later wonder how she knew so much and why she came back at exactly that point in time. I don't remember reading if this mystery got solved and I was very curious about this.
    • 4/5
      This book took a bit longer for me to read because there are so many layers and so many strong emotions. Bear has had adulthood thrust upon him and has to much of himself on hold. He has conflicted feeling but the need for friends to help him survive the new realities of his life has made it even harder to sort out what he is feeling. Otter has been battling his own feelings and trying to figure out the right thing to do. No matter what happened people would get hurt but with the help of the wisdom of a very bright nine year old and a loving old lady the damage is manageable. And the return of a common enemy doesn't hurt in bring friends back together. I love that the ending while not completely settled leaves you with a good feeling of hope for the future of all the characters in the story.
    • 5/5
      This is such a cleverly written book. I normally hate first person POV with a passion but it just adds to the heartbreak and humour of this tale. I had to put the Kindle down several times because I was either laughing or crying to hard to continue. The MCs are just fantastic but the Kid steals the show. I want to adopt him!
    • 2/5
      I have to admit that I'm torn about this book. I did something with it that I normally don't ever do. Usually, as soon as a derogatory term against the disabled community I stop reading it, mark where I am, what the term was, and write up a quick note on Goodreads, Amazon, and my blog about it. The worse offenders are YA novels, which is really disturbing. The term in this case was "retarded," one that seems to be on the upswing these days, sadly, as it had been slowing down for a while. The fact that it's appearing in so many YA novels is really disturbing, I think, because it's showing a whole new generation it's ok to say those things. It's being incorporated into their culture.

      It's something I think editors need to be aware of, possibly more important than a misplaced comma or a maligned semicolon.

      It shocked me to see it in a m/m romance book, though. I hadn't seen anything of that nature, that I remember, out of everything I've read so far. I contacted Mr. Klune, but haven't heard back from him. What I think is truly ironic, however, it that it's someone from one marginalized group demeaning another group that's marginalized.

      Just to take a quick side-step here, and forgive me, because my memory's not always that great and it's been awhile since I've taken these classes. Brown vs Board of Education was a groundbreaking case for more than just, at least in the eyes of the law, that separate educational facilities were NOT equal, starting the beginning of desegregation. This is important because it had a ripple effect, it was the beginning of civil rights movements for many groups, including gay rights and rights for people with disabilities, among many others. Both groups had to fight, and both groups still face countless challenges. Politicians and religious groups turn sexual orientation into something they have no business in, people with autism are refused heart transplants because the doctors don't know how they will react in a hospital. Illegal restraints are used on children with disabilities who are nonverbal, and they can't tell anyone because they don't have a communication system and people who know are either too afraid to speak up or punished if they do. Gay men are attacked simply because they're gay. WTF? I meant to keep this more positive, but I feel this deeply, because I've advocated for people with disabilities who can't speak, who people don't listen to if they can speak, and who people treat as "retarded" just because they're nonverbal. Just because they're nonverbal doesn't mean they don't understand exactly what you're saying. Just because a man is gay doesn't mean he can't love just as deeply or truly as any other human being. Feel passion any less.

      So what do I do? I finished the book--I liked it, other than the fact that "retarded" was used three more times. So now I feel conflicted and upset, the more I think about it.

      I advocate for the right to love and marry whoever you want to, to have or adopt children if you want to, and I advocate for people with disabilities to have their rights respected. What do you do when two things you feel so passionately about conflict?

      To everyone else this may seem like no big deal. It's just a word. There are no things as "just words." Words influence, they hurt, and they bully, because there are people behind those words who are capable of inflicting pain, whether it's physical or mental, or both.

      This isn't intended as an attack on Mr. Klune, and I'm sorry if it's taken or seen that way. It's more built up frustration. For anyone who writes and uses terms that are derogatory. The fact that I feel like people snicker at me--"oh, it's that crazy lady who gets all worked up about people with disabilities." I have a lot of reasons to get worked up, I won't go into them here.

      I just wish I could have read the book and enjoyed it without knowing those words were there, because they really ticked me off. And I really would have liked it so much more if they hadn't been.
    • 5/5
      So, just finished the re-read.

      I was kind of pissed off (triggered!) because the words "vegan" and "vegetarian" were used interchangeably.

      Other than that, I loved it :)
    • 4/5
      This book made me cry. So yeah, read it. lol
    • 5/5
      Absolutely delightful book! Lots of depth and emotion. Laugh out loud funny but I have to admit there were a few teary-eyed moments. Highly recommend!
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. I don't remember when was the last time that I cried and laughed so much. My emotions were all over the place. I didn't just have a couple of stray tears, I cried in HD. And my laughing, I'm sure I resembled a looney bin escapee.

      The dynamics of this group of friends is just amazing. Life-long best friends, family, a neighbor, they form the most rag-tag and lovable gang from ages 8-80.

      The best friendsI tell Creed the only reason I'm his friend is because he is a big, tan rich kid. He says the only reason he's my friend is because I'm little, white and I live in the ghetto with my baby teeth. We get along great.

      The brothers"I thought the whole point of having a gay brother was that they were supposed to be all cool and shit. I've got a defective gay."

      You want to know what is feels like to be castrated? Try having you nine-year-old brother protect you from your ex-girfriend after you've told her you're in love with a man.
      This book is just packed full of quote-worthy lines. I could go on and on. The story is really, really great, and I highly recommend it. I can't wait to start book 2.