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jayqueuetee 's review for:
The Music of What Happens
by Bill Konigsberg
Holy hell did I love this book.
This is one of the most compulsively readable, heart-in-my-throat books I've come across in a long time. Bill Konigsburg has created in Jordan and Max two characters whose love story filled my heart with joy while it was simultaneously breaking at the terrible things happening to them apart from one another. The way the two come together is so believable - unsure and fumbling but once they fall for one another it's never a question that they are together. I love that the conflict is honest and not manufactured; I love that this book doesn't try to make it seem like a boyfriend will solve all of life's problems. The way that the idea of consent and male sexual assault is handled is so sensitive and careful. This was an absolute joy to read.
This is one of the most compulsively readable, heart-in-my-throat books I've come across in a long time. Bill Konigsburg has created in Jordan and Max two characters whose love story filled my heart with joy while it was simultaneously breaking at the terrible things happening to them apart from one another. The way the two come together is so believable - unsure and fumbling but once they fall for one another it's never a question that they are together. I love that the conflict is honest and not manufactured; I love that this book doesn't try to make it seem like a boyfriend will solve all of life's problems. The way that the idea of consent and male sexual assault is handled is so sensitive and careful. This was an absolute joy to read.