A review by allysonclark
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey

2.0

So I understand why some people liked this book, but it wasn't for me. I struggled to connect with many of the narrators, not only because their perspective seemed overly stereotypical, but because there is so little time spent on individual POVs. And I know that the whole point of the book was to confront small-town homophobia/transphobia, but reading it was too difficult for me to enjoy, especially because the overall book felt more unrealistic fairytale-y (for lack of better description) than I hoped for. I did find that switching from audiobook to ebook made the book considerably more readable for me, because hearing detailed acts of homophobia was... rougher than just reading them. Overall, not my cup of tea, which I frankly did guess early on from the definition of "heteroshaming" on the second page.