Nicole Yasha read and liked Nikki Boisture's review of Rainbow Boys:

"This book was kind of...meh. It's about gay kids in high school, and the book kind of reads like a public service announcement. Hey Kids...get your parents involved in PFLAG! Hey Kids....don't be a homophobe! Hey kids....the GSA (gay straight all...more This book was kind of...meh. It's about gay kids in high school, and the book kind of reads like a public service announcement. Hey Kids...get your parents involved in PFLAG! Hey Kids....don't be a homophobe! Hey kids....the GSA (gay straight alliance) has a right to meet thanks to the Federal Equal Access Act! Don't get me wrong, those are all important messages, but the book is none too subtle about getting that message across. (It even ends with several pages of information all types of gay related groups for teens.)

Other problems with this book? Each of the kids has daddy issues, which seems a little cliche. Does a gay boy really have to be all close with his mom, but have a tortured relationship with dad? The characters were not developed much beyond their sexuality. OK, so Jason is actually bisexual and a super basketball player. Kyle is a swimmer. Nelson is just gay. That's it, nothing else to him.

So. I'm being generous by giving the book three stars (I'd like to give it 2.5, but you know....Goodreads and all.) It wasn't really terrible. I liked the story line well enough and I'd be especially interested in reading more in depth about Jason.

One laugh out loud moment, when Kyle's dad finally comes around (and all it took was Kyle getting the shit kicked out of him at school) he decides to go to PFLAG with Kyle's mom. And he asks Kyle about it and, in all innocence, calls it PFAG. Poor stumbling Kyle's dad. (less) "

Nicole Yasha added a quote:
"I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off." — Chuck Palahniuk

Nicole Yasha added a quote:
"Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?" — Chuck Palahniuk