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A review by drakoulis
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa
5.0
What an amazing, sweet, heartwarming and captivating book !
It's a contemporary romance, realistic and with many references to the current era without missing the dream-y feelgood spirit of the genre !
I LOVED everything about Mat, his supportiveness, his cheekiness, his flirting, his joking, the fact he always being there for Julian !
I also loved how the author did not try to give a redemption arc to the dad. The dad was a piece of shit, and everyone openly admitted it, Julian knew it from the start and wrote it in the end. "It's your choice to be an intolerable asshole."
The book is the right combination of sweet romcom and dealing with heavier issues like abuse (verbal and physical) and harassing. It doesn't shy away from anything !
My only small issue: when Julian firstly came out, his friends and Mat's replies were a bit textbook, as if it's a therapist/councilor speaking. I get the author wanted to portray supportive friends, but it felt a bit too mature/adult/encyclopedic.
This is the author's debut book, so I can have hopes he will write a sequel rom-com about Julian and Mat in LA ! Right??
It's a contemporary romance, realistic and with many references to the current era without missing the dream-y feelgood spirit of the genre !
I LOVED everything about Mat, his supportiveness, his cheekiness, his flirting, his joking, the fact he always being there for Julian !
I also loved how the author did not try to give a redemption arc to the dad. The dad was a piece of shit, and everyone openly admitted it, Julian knew it from the start and wrote it in the end. "It's your choice to be an intolerable asshole."
The book is the right combination of sweet romcom and dealing with heavier issues like abuse (verbal and physical) and harassing. It doesn't shy away from anything !
My only small issue: when Julian firstly came out, his friends and Mat's replies were a bit textbook, as if it's a therapist/councilor speaking. I get the author wanted to portray supportive friends, but it felt a bit too mature/adult/encyclopedic.
This is the author's debut book, so I can have hopes he will write a sequel rom-com about Julian and Mat in LA ! Right??