What Janine is Reading: a YA Novel and a Political Thriller

If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich

After enjoying Sophie Gonzales’s 2021 YA novel, Perfect on Paper, I decided to try this one, also YA, since it had been recommended by Dear Author commenter Susan S.

Like Perfect on Paper, If This Gets Out has queer characters, in this case two eighteen-year-old boys in a boy band called Saturday. Zach and Ruben are friends who support each other through the turbulent life of being teen celebrities. Ruben has also been in love with Zach for...