A review by jmpres
The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson

1.0

I picked this up because I loved RWRB…which was my first mistake. Literally the first chapter has the two boys stuck in a closet together while something unspecified happens outside that could be really bad and thus they end up bonding (ummm sound familiar much??). And that was just the first chapter. Also, the overarching message seemed to be “politics don’t matter if you’re in love” which seems like a pretty unrealistic view for a gay POC (although to be fair there’s hardly any exploration of the fact that Dre is POC beyond stating that his dad would be the first Mexican American president so perhaps realism wasn’t the authors goal). DNF.