A review by shane_the_reading_rat
Messy Perfect by Tanya Boteju

4.75

im a little biased towards this book, because 1: i hardcore relate to being queer and growing up religious, and 2: Cassie is incredibly relatable to me (i am also a perfectionist who has major self esteem issues lmao). i loved the conclusion/ending

,the fact that Ben isn’t queer honestly adds so much

. my only issues are that i didn’t like Halle much (though she improves) and i dont like how some of the lets-gay-up-st-lukes missions affected innocent, uninvolved people (

examples, kids being made to clean up the mary statue and mr reyes getting in trouble for rainbow stickers on books

). i’d consider those fairly minor issues though, overall adored it :)