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Much more interesting, and amazing, than I expected. Issue book packed full of issues but you actually care deeply about the characters and stuff actually fits together and it doesn't end up a pat, dry jumble like most YA issue-books. Just, really good. I regret not reading it until I was 24.
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Up until the last twenty pages, I really liked this book. I have NO idea why it was assigned for the queer scifi bookgroup, but I liked it. Which is good, because I've written a novel along similar-ish plot lines of highschool students trying to figure out life and friendship and sex.
And then the last twenty pages happened. And, well.
It's like the author looked at his book and thought, "How can I ruin this? Oh, I have an idea..." ...more
And then the last twenty pages happened. And, well.
It's like the author looked at his book and thought, "How can I ruin this? Oh, I have an idea..." ...more
This is a reasonably competent entry into a genre I have no interest in at all. If I'd read it when I was twelve, I would have thought it was the most amazing book ever. As it is . . . been there, done that. It's a constructed set of a high school, of a family, with none of the life and weird loose ends of the real thing. The voice and the subjects discussed lack verisimilitude for an actual 15-year-old.
It did prompt me to reread my diary from freshman year of high school, though. That was fun. ...more
It did prompt me to reread my diary from freshman year of high school, though. That was fun. ...more
