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Autoboyography
by Christina Lauren
⭐ 2.5 (maybe?)
🎧 audio
It's now quite obvious that this book isn't meant for me but I'm still disappointed that I didn't enjoy it. Reading it felt like a chore and I only finished it because I was listening to the audio while I drove to work and cleaned the house. But I honestly wish I DNF'ed this book.
The rest of this review will definitely contain spoilers:
I disliked this story and the characters in it so much that I hesitate to recommend it to anyone. Maybe someone with a relationship to the Mormon faith would enjoy parts of it. Maybe a queer person, a Jewish person, or even someone closer in age to these characters would like this book. I am none of these things, but not having commonalities with characters doesn't usually detract from my reading experience. For instance, I loooove Blood Like Magic by Liselle Samsbury and I'm not a young Black girl living in Canada with magical powers.
The relationship between Tanner and Sebastian is your typical teenage insta-love and it is so suffocating. Other than his bff Autumn, Tanner supposedly has friends at school but we almost never hear from them or about them. Everything is about Sebastian, even Autumn is thrown to the wayside.
I was thinking that maybe I'm just too old now to appreciate a teen love story, but I'm not. There are other YA romance books that I've still enjoyed in my 30s.
There's a scene where Tanner and Autumn are at a store and some girls from school overhear them talking about Tanner's queerness. He is so stressed out about this but literally nothing ever comes from it. What was the point?
And when are we going to stop giving JKR/HP a platform?! Who thought it was a good idea to have HP references in a story about queer love. It's actually stupid. I know this was written almost 10 years ago, and maybe JKR wasn't as publicly vile back then. But am I to believe there have been no new editions since then that could have taken at these pointless HP mentions?
🎧 audio
It's now quite obvious that this book isn't meant for me but I'm still disappointed that I didn't enjoy it. Reading it felt like a chore and I only finished it because I was listening to the audio while I drove to work and cleaned the house. But I honestly wish I DNF'ed this book.
The rest of this review will definitely contain spoilers:
I disliked this story and the characters in it so much that I hesitate to recommend it to anyone. Maybe someone with a relationship to the Mormon faith would enjoy parts of it. Maybe a queer person, a Jewish person, or even someone closer in age to these characters would like this book. I am none of these things, but not having commonalities with characters doesn't usually detract from my reading experience. For instance, I loooove Blood Like Magic by Liselle Samsbury and I'm not a young Black girl living in Canada with magical powers.
The relationship between Tanner and Sebastian is your typical teenage insta-love and it is so suffocating. Other than his bff Autumn, Tanner supposedly has friends at school but we almost never hear from them or about them. Everything is about Sebastian, even Autumn is thrown to the wayside.
I was thinking that maybe I'm just too old now to appreciate a teen love story, but I'm not. There are other YA romance books that I've still enjoyed in my 30s.
There's a scene where Tanner and Autumn are at a store and some girls from school overhear them talking about Tanner's queerness. He is so stressed out about this but literally nothing ever comes from it. What was the point?
And when are we going to stop giving JKR/HP a platform?! Who thought it was a good idea to have HP references in a story about queer love. It's actually stupid. I know this was written almost 10 years ago, and maybe JKR wasn't as publicly vile back then. But am I to believe there have been no new editions since then that could have taken at these pointless HP mentions?