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A review by anniekslibrary
All Of My Friends Are Rich by Michael Sarais
3.0
This book is very much out of my comfort zone, but I did think it was a good read. It reminds me a little of Boyfriend Material, the currently popular m/m romance, but messier and more focused on sex instead of romance.
This could have been a very heavy read with the existing themes, and while it did have some emotional punches, it was also a pretty funny read at times, and it ended up being more of a feelgood read than I was expecting.
What I appreciated most about it is how this book was not toned down to be palatable for a broader audience. The gay rep is not made palatable for a cishet audience. The mental illness rep is not made palatable for a neurotypical audience. That's something we don't see quite often enough and I loved that this book was clearly not written for those audiences.
While I did appreciate the book overall, I sometimes found the wording of things to be problematic, and that took me out of the story a little.
CWs: mental illness, (unprotected) sex/sex work, possibility of HIV, past death of parents, alcohol, drugs
This could have been a very heavy read with the existing themes, and while it did have some emotional punches, it was also a pretty funny read at times, and it ended up being more of a feelgood read than I was expecting.
What I appreciated most about it is how this book was not toned down to be palatable for a broader audience. The gay rep is not made palatable for a cishet audience. The mental illness rep is not made palatable for a neurotypical audience. That's something we don't see quite often enough and I loved that this book was clearly not written for those audiences.
While I did appreciate the book overall, I sometimes found the wording of things to be problematic, and that took me out of the story a little.
CWs: mental illness, (unprotected) sex/sex work, possibility of HIV, past death of parents, alcohol, drugs