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A review by mirandax
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
2.0
This book is about Tanner, who's taking a seminar at school and is going to write a book in a few months, as he falls for Sebastian who took the seminar last year and is getting the book he wrote published.
Here's the good and the bad
Good:
- Cute relationship
- Tanner has a good relationship with his parents
- We see how much Sebastian benefits from his relationship with God and I loved that
- Both bi and gay characters
What I didn't like:
- Religion was at times demonised
- It felt like Tanner was making decisions for everyone in his life, and at times just expected everyone to live by his rules
- I didn't like the writing
- I hated Tanner's voice
- Tanner was at times rude and disrespectful to everyone with different opinions
- It at times portrays a message that in order to be gay and happy, you can't have a close relationship to the church
- It was unrealistic. Writing a book in a few months and getting it published when you're 19 isn't really something that happens a lot
- The characters didn't really grow all that much
- A LOT of generalisation, for about every group of people
- This book felt like it was saying "LOOK HOW DIVERSE I AM!! BI PROTAGONIST!! PARENTS IN ALL THE RAINBOW CLOTHING!! LOOK HOW COOL!!" But other than the two main characters, and two other queer couples quickly mentioned, this book was very white and very straight
I wanted to love this book, I really did. I'm always up for a queer story, and this sounded so cute, and the cover was stunning, but unfortunately it fell flat for me
I get why other people might love it, I just didn't
Here's the good and the bad
Good:
- Cute relationship
- Tanner has a good relationship with his parents
- We see how much Sebastian benefits from his relationship with God and I loved that
- Both bi and gay characters
What I didn't like:
- Religion was at times demonised
- It felt like Tanner was making decisions for everyone in his life, and at times just expected everyone to live by his rules
- I didn't like the writing
- I hated Tanner's voice
- Tanner was at times rude and disrespectful to everyone with different opinions
- It at times portrays a message that in order to be gay and happy, you can't have a close relationship to the church
- It was unrealistic. Writing a book in a few months and getting it published when you're 19 isn't really something that happens a lot
- The characters didn't really grow all that much
- A LOT of generalisation, for about every group of people
- This book felt like it was saying "LOOK HOW DIVERSE I AM!! BI PROTAGONIST!! PARENTS IN ALL THE RAINBOW CLOTHING!! LOOK HOW COOL!!" But other than the two main characters, and two other queer couples quickly mentioned, this book was very white and very straight
I wanted to love this book, I really did. I'm always up for a queer story, and this sounded so cute, and the cover was stunning, but unfortunately it fell flat for me
I get why other people might love it, I just didn't