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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94064.Rainbow_Boys?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Rainbow Boys" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171272806m/94064.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94064.Rainbow_Boys?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Rainbow Boys</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/53974.Alex_Sanchez">Alex Sanchez</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19916996?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 4 of 5 stars While in Lands Unknown, I visited Former Place of Employment for a book-fix, and bought a book called Rainbow Boys, about three boys in high school struggling with being gay. Jason, a basketball jock, has a girlfriend and once fooled around with another boy when he was ten, which apparently made him gay-curious, so he goes to a "Rainbow Youth Group" meeting to find out some more about his 'feelings.' To his horror, he sees two boys from his school there: Nelson (Nelly) The School flamer who's the most annoying fag in the history of literature, and Kyle, who, though incredibly boring and nerdy, is the least obnoxious character in the book.
 
 Nelly gets beat up and ostracized for being a huge blinking neon advertisement for The Church of Flaming Homosexuality ("Bless me Father, for I am FABULOUS!"), Kyle comes out to his boring parents, who have a boring reaction, Kyle has a crush on "I'm not sure if I'm gay or not even though I imagined Kyle's face while I was having sex with my girlfriend" Jason, Nelly has a crush on Kyle, Jason doesn't know what the hell's going on, and there's some kind of subplot about Jason's dad being an alcoholic and the boys trying to start a GSA club at their conservative high school. Everything turns out right in the end, except for Nelly, who was so desperate for sex that he hooked up with some dude online named Brick and may or may not have contracted HIV. (Continued in book two, I guess.)
 
 Yes, there is buttsex in the book (a lot more than I'd expected, for a book that's aimed at teenagers), but it's all kind of glossed over. They kiss, they take each other's shirts off, and just when it's starting to get good, the book announces, "then it was over." Ripoff!
 
 The book was actually not bad for the audience it was aimed at; it was kind of like a softcore after-school special. I'm sure adults will like it for it's message of "it's okay to be gay," but I dunno how actual gay kids would take it. It did seem believable, though, as high-school dramas go.
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Jaydee's review
rating:
bookshelves: books-for-kids---young-adults
recommended for: Young Adults Ages 13 - 18

** spoiler alert ** While in Lands Unknown, I visited Former Place of Employment for a book-fix, and bought a book called Rainbow Boys, about three boys in high school struggling with being gay. Jason, a basketball jock, has a girlfriend and once fooled around with another boy when he was ten, which apparently made him gay-curious, so he goes to a "Rainbow Youth Group" meeting to find out some more about his 'feelings.' To his horror, he sees two boys from his school there: Nelson (Nelly) The School flamer who's the most annoying fag in the history of literature, and Kyle, who, though incredibly boring and nerdy, is the least obnoxious character in the book.

Nelly gets beat up and ostracized for being a huge blinking neon advertisement for The Church of Flaming Homosexuality ("Bless me Father, for I am FABULOUS!"), Kyle comes out to his boring parents, who have a boring reaction, Kyle has a crush on "I'm not sure if I'm gay or not even though I imagined Kyle's face while I was ...more While in Lands Unknown, I visited Former Place of Employment for a book-fix, and bought a book called Rainbow Boys, about three boys in high school struggling with being gay. Jason, a basketball jock, has a girlfriend and once fooled around with another boy when he was ten, which apparently made him gay-curious, so he goes to a "Rainbow Youth Group" meeting to find out some more about his 'feelings.' To his horror, he sees two boys from his school there: Nelson (Nelly) The School flamer who's the most annoying fag in the history of literature, and Kyle, who, though incredibly boring and nerdy, is the least obnoxious character in the book.

Nelly gets beat up and ostracized for being a huge blinking neon advertisement for The Church of Flaming Homosexuality ("Bless me Father, for I am FABULOUS!"), Kyle comes out to his boring parents, who have a boring reaction, Kyle has a crush on "I'm not sure if I'm gay or not even though I imagined Kyle's face while I was having sex with my girlfriend" Jason, Nelly has a crush on Kyle, Jason doesn't know what the hell's going on, and there's some kind of subplot about Jason's dad being an alcoholic and the boys trying to start a GSA club at their conservative high school. Everything turns out right in the end, except for Nelly, who was so desperate for sex that he hooked up with some dude online named Brick and may or may not have contracted HIV. (Continued in book two, I guess.)

Yes, there is buttsex in the book (a lot more than I'd expected, for a book that's aimed at teenagers), but it's all kind of glossed over. They kiss, they take each other's shirts off, and just when it's starting to get good, the book announces, "then it was over." Ripoff!

The book was actually not bad for the audience it was aimed at; it was kind of like a softcore after-school special. I'm sure adults will like it for it's message of "it's okay to be gay," but I dunno how actual gay kids would take it. It did seem believable, though, as high-school dramas go....less

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