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A review by punkcalf
Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas
5.0
To summarise this book in one word; Important
This the type of gentle novels we need growing up. This is exactly the realistic stories we yearn for. This is what anxiety feels like growing up and how it feels to love your parents but knowing they're messing up or doing wrong by you. This is what it feels to come out and getting mixed reactions and even those who aren't malicious can hurt us.
I love the realism of being a parent too soon and how everything just fell into place. The theme that you don't need to forgive people if they hurt you and that being the bigger person doesn't always work.
This is such an important novel and I cannot recommend it enough and my one true wish is that it gets translated in many languages so it can earn a spot in middle grades across the world.
AMAZING
This the type of gentle novels we need growing up. This is exactly the realistic stories we yearn for. This is what anxiety feels like growing up and how it feels to love your parents but knowing they're messing up or doing wrong by you. This is what it feels to come out and getting mixed reactions and even those who aren't malicious can hurt us.
Spoiler
Colby lifting up his sheets to hide his bare chest when Ezra came out; I felt that so hard I cried. It's this kind of homophobia that is still present today and I love how Ezra acknowledges it. It could be worse; it also could be a lot betterI love the realism of being a parent too soon and how everything just fell into place. The theme that you don't need to forgive people if they hurt you and that being the bigger person doesn't always work.
This is such an important novel and I cannot recommend it enough and my one true wish is that it gets translated in many languages so it can earn a spot in middle grades across the world.
AMAZING