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anna_l's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Sexual content and Suicide
booksbri's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Drug use and Suicide
casey_esq's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Moderate: Suicide and Abandonment
01hannah11's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Suicide
rwinchesterm's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Suicide
autisticbucky's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Suicide
Moderate: Death and Death of parent
itac2i's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
In this book, you read of Phillipe’s intense yearning for another boy by the name of Thomas. In spite of believing his desire is one sided, Thomas and him end up having an affair, that seemed only sexual in nature.. until it was just more, for the both of them.
Phillipe goes on to recall this entire encounter and this boy into his adult life, never forgetting this relationship that changed him even as an adult. He never forgets of this boy named Thomas.
This book captures a real and uniquely raw queer experience, and all of the emotions that come with it back in a time when being queer wasn’t something that was possible for just anyone. How someone can suppress such feelings and queerness, and the shame that it causes them to carry. Even without these things being bluntly described it is understood in the context of the words written in this book.
Reading this as queer person myself, this book was very easy to relate to and feel in my very core. Not only the queer aspects, but also the fervent amount of passion and infatuation one feels in their youth. It really hit me a little too hard in the heart. What an emotionally powerful story encapsulating a real, and harder side of the queer experience.
4.5 ⭐️.
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Suicide
em_h_ma's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Homophobia and Sexual content
Minor: Suicide
lonelylooper's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Homophobia, Suicide, and Grief
Moderate: Death and Death of parent
Minor: Ableism and Miscarriage
lauren_shilling's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Suicide