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Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
5.0

This book was so cute! And I cried soooooo many times D: I'm so glad I decided to continue this at home, because blubbering on the bus would not have been good! :D

The pacing of the friendship / relationship between our two main guys Tanner and Sebastian was perfect

Bisexual main character!

The LDS church aspect was done really well and really respectfully. There was a nice contrast between the two characters relationship with the church. Tanner had a lot of his negative expectations quashed, while Sebastian had to look inwardly and outward to see if maybe some of the beliefs he had been taught were wrong. Both came away with different opinions as the ones they started with, but not once did it feel like the book was portraying the religion and it's followers in a harsh way.

Tanners parents had a nice arc, they accepted his bisexuality from the get go, but had to learn to /really/ accepting him. If you liked the parent aspect of this book then I definitely recommend [b:Openly Straight|16100972|Openly Straight (Openly Straight, #1)|Bill Konigsberg|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1358050824s/16100972.jpg|21911266] which has a very similar parent / main character relationship