Up at the Interroblog: Review of Matt Blackstone's A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie

At the outset, I was quite excited to read Matt Blackstone's upcoming debut A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie. The opening reminded me of a male version of Kirsten Hubbard's Like Mandarin. In early chapters, fourteen-year-old Rene meets Gio, a tall, slang-inventing, facial-hair sporting classmate and is instantly entranced by him. He assures us that he's not gay, but that he merely wants to be Gio—but of course, this isn't an easy prospect for Rene, an awkward kid who wears a superhero cape to...