bequibuho 's review for:

Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy

3.0

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Darren is not having the greatest morning. He just found out that the reason why his parents are getting a divorce was because his father is gay. He can’t deal with a long car trip with his dad, so he ask the pretty goth girl for a ride to the bus station.

This was a beast of a book, it is over 600 pages. That being said I breezed through this book. The story is mainly told through Darren’s list, so some pages have a few words while other lists can take multiple pages.

Sadly the list story telling format was the most interesting part of the book. We basically spent a year with Darren throughout this book but I didn’t feel like anything happened to him. I found the supporting characters to be much more intriguing.

I wanted to learn more about his father who recently came out of the closet. Darren’s love interest was shipped to away to a different school. When we first met her, she was already mysterious and moody. I found them to be much more compelling. I wish we could have learned more about them.

I give this book a C.

I just didn’t feel that Darren grow enough over the 600 pages.