brokenrecord 's review for:

True Letters from a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan

4.0

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This was good! I didn’t get super invested in the romance, but it was pleasant, and I really liked James a lot as a character, and there some really nice moments. The scene where he tells Hawken about his crush on him at the beginning made me cringe but in a good way? And I loved how Hawken handled his confession. Their friendship was just really great. I also loved all of James’s letters.

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I wasn’t 100% sure it was Theresa, and while I did kind of suspect her, the book did a good job of not making it completely obvious it was her.

The family stuff also really worked for me.

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And I was so happy about how his dad and Luke reacted to him coming out, and that his mom came around at the end. And Luke shipping him and Hawken!!!

I really don’t have any complaints about this, and the only reason I’m not rating this higher is because while I really enjoyed almost everything, I didn’t get super sucked in or invested in the story, and I also kept mixing up the details between this and Draw the Line, which has some similarities story-wise and which I read right after this book, which means it didn’t stand out enough for me to remember it strongly. But it was still really lovely overall!