Week 40 Review: Autoboyagraphy

From Goodreads:
Fangirl meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this funny and poignant coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class—one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community.

Three years ago, Tanner Scott's family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.

But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High's prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can't resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.

It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.

My Review:
Wow, this book was so fantastic! It took me longer to read than I expected from a Christina Lauren book, but it dealt with a relationship between a Mormon boy, and a non-religious bisexual boy. Kinda a meaty topic there!

It's kinda funny, that this book has Tanner writing the story of their relationship. This book. So it's kinda meta in a way, which I enjoyed. And that book is kinda a big deal to the both of them, when at first Tanner's writing it, and Sebastian is helping. And then later when it's the story of the two of them.

This book dealt with the clear as mud standards of the Mormon church regarding same sex relationships. I think what it worked out to was that they're grudgingly accepting of the feelings, but they won't allow acting on said feelings.

Tanner was in an interesting place. His father is basically a non-practicing Jew, and his mom was Mormon-until they kicked her sister out. So he has that in his life, someone who had a negative experience with the church while he's having a relationship with a boy from within. So those were some interesting dynamics!

I really enjoyed how this book was told. Mostly the book was told from Tanner's perspective in first. But near the end, we started to switch between Tanner and Sebastian in third, before the epilogue going back to Tanner in first. That was so fantastic!

This book was really fantastic and I enjoyed reading it so much!

Author: Christina Lauren
Read: September 28th, 2019
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love her books, and it's a SAC 2019 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young
Published: September 12th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars