A review by justinevandale
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

slow-paced

3.0

I recently have been trying to join more book clubs to become more countable for my reading and to read books outside what I normally would grab. This year I have been trying to read more diversely as well. Rainbow Milk is the September book for one of the book clubs I’m in Queereads YYC. Now normally I wouldn’t have grabbed this book and I hadn’t actually heard about it until it was chosen for bookclub. I didn’t mind this red but it didn’t blow my mind. It read like a non- fiction (which I do enjoy) but for me it was too all over the place. I actually wanted to DNF it after the first parts, I was really having a hard time reading the characters accent, it may be a better listen. But once we start following Jesse I was more invested. Again, this story read more memoir ish and was actually quite blunt and what was happening with our main character and how he jumped into sex work. I did just find his character not very exciting of a voice, I can’t quite put my finger on it. He did wild things, sex, drugs, etc but the voice was almost monotone as a read it. I also felt like the ending left me wanting more because it felt unfinished to me. 
What I did like was that we got to see everyday struggles of someone of colour and who left their religious background. We followed Jesse as he was growing up and finding himself and finding love. 

I may recommend this book but it would be to a certain group of readers vs. Everyone.