A review by alisonalisonalison
Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks by 'Nathan Burgoine

5.0

Oh, I loved this. It's so awesome! It's delightful and engaging and it's so thoroughly and happily and authentically queer. I loved how the kid's queerness was absolutely *not* the problem in this book, as it so often is in YA. The problem is that he suddenly starts teleporting uncontrollably. This is a cool story and it's fun and upbeat and real-world diverse and wonderfully nerdy. The writing is so snappy and confident. I loved the Canadian-ness of it all. Cole's dad is deaf and I loved their relationship and how deafness was portrayed. There's a lot of queer people in this book and I love how normal and not very important the queerness it is. It's just reality and no bad stuff happens to anyone and how awesome is that? I wish it wasn't so rare to read YA books where nothing bad happens to the queer kids. I treasure those books. Own voices queer books are so important. I loved this and I look forward to reading more by this author.