A review by owls_rainbow
In Bloom by Matthew Crow

3.0

I liked this book but there was too much regular home stuff and Francis laying in bed and not enough about the actual illness. We never got to get to know the other patients or the nurses and despite being told Chris is gay on the first page apart from a passing mention of pretty boys in record stores he seems to remain celibate for the whole book which I find rather unbelievable considering he's probably 30+ by the end. Also the parents relationships seemed rather rushed and we aren't given any closure regarding the boys' dad.