A review by imscrem
Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith

1.0

I find this book failed to deliver in a few aspects, most notably the unapologetic ignorance of the love interest, the use of sexual assault as a climactic event, and the extremely pushy ideology entwined throughout the book that LGBT people must out themselves, regardless of their safety, in order to be themselves.

The one redeeming quality of this book in this respect is that the author himself is a trans man, but it reads as rather tone deaf towards other members of the LGBT community despite this.

The book was not helped by my tendency not to read high school romance, but that is no fault of the author.