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3.5
ESTE LIBRO SERÍA UNA OBRA MAESTRA SI NO FUERA TAN INCONSISTENTE
Es que...hear me out....meten cosas a la historia y las hacen un dramón....y luego ya no aparecen? Que el baile, que las chicas que escuchan a Sebastian y Tanner en uno de sus paseos, que la familia, que esto, que el novio de Autumn....
Y digo, en general está bastante bien, aunque es un poco insta love y cuando ya se besan yo estaba así ¿? porque sentía que todavía no estabamos en ese punto pero como sea
En general me gustó, creo que la forma en la que trata la religión, ser LGBT+ y las relaciones con tu familia es bastante buena pero le falta
ESTE LIBRO SERÍA UNA OBRA MAESTRA SI NO FUERA TAN INCONSISTENTE
Es que...hear me out....meten cosas a la historia y las hacen un dramón....y luego ya no aparecen? Que el baile, que las chicas que escuchan a Sebastian y Tanner en uno de sus paseos, que la familia, que esto, que el novio de Autumn....
Y digo, en general está bastante bien, aunque es un poco insta love y cuando ya se besan yo estaba así ¿? porque sentía que todavía no estabamos en ese punto pero como sea
En general me gustó, creo que la forma en la que trata la religión, ser LGBT+ y las relaciones con tu familia es bastante buena pero le falta
«Tienes tanto espacio en tu corazón para tu iglesia, pero ¿hay espacio para ti?»
This book was so good! I went in thinking it was just going to be a light contemporary, but it actually commented on many things that I thought were interesting. This definitely gave a whole new perspective on religion for me!
Tanner moved to Provo, Utah a few years ago, and promptly put himself back in the closet at his ex-LDS church mother's urging. His best friend, Autumn, doesn't even know he identifies bisexual despite knowing most other things about him. Definitely no one else at his high school, chock full of well-groomed, polite LDS teenagers knows, as the Mormon church has a complicated relationship with homosexuality, mainly condemning it.
But Autumn talks Tanner into a senior year write-a-book-in-a-semester class, and a freshmen at Brigham Young University returns to his alma mater as a teaching assistant. This teaching assistant, Sebastien, "ruins" Tanner with his smile, is gorgeous, popular, funny, smart...and the son of the local LDS Bishop.
No way is he returning Tanner's smiles, or flirtatiously asking Tanner if he wants help with his novel, or brushing up against him....or is he?
Tanner's voice is fresh, vulnerable, and compulsively readable. This is an emotionally frought teenage relationship and he delivers the introspective angst in spades. Tanner's banter with Autumn is great, the meaningful inclusion of both sets of families an uncommon pleasure, and Tanner's non-LDS self in an LDS town quite eye-opening for folks, such as me, who only encounter small enclaves of Mormons out in the non-Utah world.
This view of Mormonism is not perfectly balanced, Tanner is an outsider, and while he appreciates the politeness, he does think the modesty a bit much, and of course, the whole having to hide himself away from the whole town thing does influence how he sees the Mormon's rejection of homosexuality. This, of course, provides the main tension of the book: loving who you love vs disappointing your parents. The value of living a spiritual life vs the value of living a life true to yourself.
This is a YA contemporary romance book, so of course, there is some happiness here, despite the difficulties Sebastien and Tanner face. And Tanner is not 100 percent blameless in his actions here, which I both was disappointed in and understood. I wished he had faced more fall out for trying to hide himself as well as his grief-induced actions.
But in the end, this was just so...lovely and interesting and full of juicy angsty relationships. Great contemporary that rang teen-true to an old fogey like me.
But Autumn talks Tanner into a senior year write-a-book-in-a-semester class, and a freshmen at Brigham Young University returns to his alma mater as a teaching assistant. This teaching assistant, Sebastien, "ruins" Tanner with his smile, is gorgeous, popular, funny, smart...and the son of the local LDS Bishop.
No way is he returning Tanner's smiles, or flirtatiously asking Tanner if he wants help with his novel, or brushing up against him....or is he?
Tanner's voice is fresh, vulnerable, and compulsively readable. This is an emotionally frought teenage relationship and he delivers the introspective angst in spades. Tanner's banter with Autumn is great, the meaningful inclusion of both sets of families an uncommon pleasure, and Tanner's non-LDS self in an LDS town quite eye-opening for folks, such as me, who only encounter small enclaves of Mormons out in the non-Utah world.
This view of Mormonism is not perfectly balanced, Tanner is an outsider, and while he appreciates the politeness, he does think the modesty a bit much, and of course, the whole having to hide himself away from the whole town thing does influence how he sees the Mormon's rejection of homosexuality. This, of course, provides the main tension of the book: loving who you love vs disappointing your parents. The value of living a spiritual life vs the value of living a life true to yourself.
This is a YA contemporary romance book, so of course, there is some happiness here, despite the difficulties Sebastien and Tanner face. And Tanner is not 100 percent blameless in his actions here, which I both was disappointed in and understood. I wished he had faced more fall out for trying to hide himself as well as his grief-induced actions.
But in the end, this was just so...lovely and interesting and full of juicy angsty relationships. Great contemporary that rang teen-true to an old fogey like me.
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
ATTENTION AU COUP DE COEUR !
C'est un roman très coloré qui nous fait vibrer. J'ai tellement relu cette romance tant je l'aime d'amour !
On s'attache si facilement au petit couple notamment par le fait que leur histoire nous prend de court. C'est rempli de passion, de répulsion ; ce roman est aussi fascinant que déchirant. J'ai pleuré à multiples reprises, même durant mes relectures !
Les personnages semblent complexe, nous laissant tout de même de quoi pouvoir les comprendre ; des petites citations, des pensées, etc.
L'auteure à totalement respecté la religion. Il y a beaucoup de théologie sur le mormonisme. Le fait que Sebastian soit mormon à donné un aspect compliqué à la relation qu'il entretient avec Tanner. Elle baigne autant dans la religion que dans "le pêché" ( puisque dans la religion, l'homosexualité est un pêché).
C'est un roman très coloré qui nous fait vibrer. J'ai tellement relu cette romance tant je l'aime d'amour !
On s'attache si facilement au petit couple notamment par le fait que leur histoire nous prend de court. C'est rempli de passion, de répulsion ; ce roman est aussi fascinant que déchirant. J'ai pleuré à multiples reprises, même durant mes relectures !
Les personnages semblent complexe, nous laissant tout de même de quoi pouvoir les comprendre ; des petites citations, des pensées, etc.
L'auteure à totalement respecté la religion. Il y a beaucoup de théologie sur le mormonisme. Le fait que Sebastian soit mormon à donné un aspect compliqué à la relation qu'il entretient avec Tanner. Elle baigne autant dans la religion que dans "le pêché" ( puisque dans la religion, l'homosexualité est un pêché).