A review by mhall
Absolute Brightness by Celeste Lecesne

3.0

The cover of this is so unsuitable, and doesn't at all match the book inside. It's about a flamboyant gay teenager named Leonard who comes to live with his cousins in a small town. He's the type of boy who makes his own platform sneakers by gluing together the soles of a dozen pairs of flip-flops and who is thrilled with his new dingy basement 'room' made up of stacks of old boxes forming haphazard walls. In other words, he is determined to be who he is, and determined to be happy. Unlike [b:Boy Meets Boy|93723|Boy Meets Girl (Boy, #2)|Meg Cabot|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21WJSRCGN7L._SL75_.jpg|2425604], though, Leonard lives in the real world, and things take a tragic turn when he disappears.