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Autoboyography
by Christina Lauren
Oh, my heart. I had so many feelings about this book, and these characters, and the struggles they faced while falling in love. I'm a sucker for books about writers--especially writers struggling with the writing process--and I loved how the source of Tanner's struggle wasn't in finishing a novel in a semester, but in knowing that he wouldn't be able to turn in his written account of his own love story without outing the boy he'd fallen for.
AUTOBOYOGRAPHY is set in Provo, Utah, a city heavily influenced by Mormon history and culture, and although it has plenty to say about the ways in which religion and queerness intersect, and about the LDS attitude toward LGBT teens, it never sets out to attack the church. If anything, the authors do a remarkably fair job of presenting the different sides of Mormonism and how belonging to the church has both positive and negative impacts on gay and straight characters alike.
I hoped for a happy ending the whole time I was reading, but I didn't expect to be so emotional about the resolution of Tanner and Sebastian's story, and I definitely didn't expect to devour the whole book in a weekend. Christina Lauren have really outdone themselves this time.
AUTOBOYOGRAPHY is set in Provo, Utah, a city heavily influenced by Mormon history and culture, and although it has plenty to say about the ways in which religion and queerness intersect, and about the LDS attitude toward LGBT teens, it never sets out to attack the church. If anything, the authors do a remarkably fair job of presenting the different sides of Mormonism and how belonging to the church has both positive and negative impacts on gay and straight characters alike.
I hoped for a happy ending the whole time I was reading, but I didn't expect to be so emotional about the resolution of Tanner and Sebastian's story, and I definitely didn't expect to devour the whole book in a weekend. Christina Lauren have really outdone themselves this time.