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This was good! A fast-paced coming-of-age story with three unique and compelling perspectives.
I learned a lot about the modern diagnosis and treatment process of HIV/AIDS as well as the Brazilian cultural significance of queerness and HIV/AIDS.
This was an audiobook read for me and I enjoyed all the narrators and it helped me differentiate the different povs which can otherwise be a challenge in audio form.
I recommend this to fans of queer YA coming-of-age novels like Ziggy Stardust and Me and This is Kind of an Awkward Love Story.

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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innastholiel's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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anniereads221's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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ramreadsagain's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I picked this up on impulse and wish I had read more about it first, I didn’t realise it was a young adult book. I’ve definitely outgrown the genre and it’s just not for me.

Outside of that though this is a good book. It covers an important topic that I wish I had known more about when I was younger, and it even taught me a couple of things today. It’s also a really nice story, covering three different perspectives.

I wish there was more development of their friendship. A lot of the narration was devoted to irrelevant descriptions and the pacing was a bit off at times. Furthermore the Henrique/Victor romance felt “rushed” just because most of it happened before the book started so we don’t really see them interact much which lead me to not be invested in the romance. It has a bit of a “tell not show” issue as well and I felt that the moral of the story was a bit heavyhanded but I understand that these are often standard characteristics of young adult books.

I’d recommend it for fans of YA.

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

This was a pretty fast and somewhat mindless read for me. What was interesting was that this book put the conversation of HIV at the front and center, bringing to attention the stigma against it, the struggles that HIV positive people face, and the impact it has on day-to-day life. Another interesting thing that I liked about this book was it focused on modern-day Brazil. Following three young gay men (I believe the youngest was eighteen while the oldest was twenty-one), you learn a lot about HIV... maybe to the point that the book ends up reading more like an information booklet than an actual book.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually learned a lot more about HIV, but I also picked this book up with expectations that I’ll get a story of some kind. Yes, there was a story, but this definitely wasn’t a plot-driven book and focused more on delivering information about HIV to me. There was some interesting character development, though, to show how HIV personally impacted the protagonists, but it wasn’t anything revolutionary.

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