A review by emmalallenm
Crystal's House of Queers by Brooke Skipstone

2.0

I wanted to love this book so much- the chosen family, queer representation, and neurodivergence aspects are what originally drew me to this book. However, there were a lot of things that I didn't like about it that prompted me to give it two stars. I felt like the storyline of Crystal's mom seemed really unrealistic to me, as well as how easily they were able to get rid of a domestic abuser.

The characters did not seem to have much growth aside from Haley. I also felt like Payton in particular was not a realistic high school character- she seemed to have too much knowledge of a myriad of different topics to feel realistic to me.

I think if I had read it in high school I may have had a different opinion, but this felt like the first novel for an author, and I might read more of her work in the future, but I think it definitely has room to grow.

Thanks to Net Galley for providing an advance copy in exchange for my review.