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Beast
by Brie Spangler
I honestly really liked this book! Gosh, the writing was great, but the one thing that soured the book for me was Dylan's mom. I HATE helicopter parents—not because I had one but because I've had plenty of friends that did and they were awful. I just don't understand why Dylan let his mom emotionally manipulate him with his dead dad. That was supremely horrible and I wish Dylan was harder on her. This relationship really should have been addressed, I mean Like I said, I hate helicopter parents and this is extremely not cool in my book.
That being said, Dylan did waffle around and was a little insufferable... But it's not horribly done. People have to understand that others deal with inexperienced things like Jamie's gender differently. Would I have treated her like Dylan did? No, but it's because I'm a different person that he is and he was was already very insecure in his life. I guess what I'm getting at is that Not everyone can be immediately accepting, in fact— I'm glad that this novel showed the kind of uglier side of dating a transgender person. I've read a couple novels where things were more smooth sailing and while they were nice, this novel also gave me a lot of interesting things to think about, as a gay person myself.
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blaming Dylan for making her leave a conference that was important for her career!? What the hell. The guy's a straight-A student and you treat him like he's gonna hop on drugs the minute you step away!?That being said, Dylan did waffle around and was a little insufferable... But it's not horribly done. People have to understand that others deal with inexperienced things like Jamie's gender differently. Would I have treated her like Dylan did? No, but it's because I'm a different person that he is and he was was already very insecure in his life. I guess what I'm getting at is that Not everyone can be immediately accepting, in fact— I'm glad that this novel showed the kind of uglier side of dating a transgender person. I've read a couple novels where things were more smooth sailing and while they were nice, this novel also gave me a lot of interesting things to think about, as a gay person myself.