I’m not Mormon, and despite having a few friends that are, I really don’t know much about the religion. What’s interesting is that I didn’t always like the choices that they made, or their mistakes, but I FELT their emotions and just so much. I connected to the characters so thoroughly, and empathized with their struggles. I even found myself occasionally convinced that this was really written by Tanner, and…I don’t know, I had no other explanation for the author name. There was something at once fascinating and heartbreaking about this story. It’s been a long time since a book has just burrowed under my skin and stayed in my heart. But I did dock it an extra half star because I couldn’t help but agree with those points. That’s a personal reader thing, you know? So I’m not saying this book is perfect by any means, but for *me* the good outweighed the bad. And while I hate when people have to be mean in their reviews, if I ignored the extremely negative way it was written, the reviewer actually made a lot of good points that had me nodding and saying “yeah, ok, yeah.” But you know what? Even with all those shortcomings, the main takeaway for me was that I was invested in this book, the things that *got to me* really impacted me and made me think, and so I kind of glossed over the things that bugged me. My Review:Ĥ stars - So after writing this review (below), I totes went and read through some other reviews, and even a 1 star one because I was curious. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him. 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.

It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. 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.īut 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. Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Genres: Young Adult, LGBT, Contemporary, Romanceįind it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon ✩ B&N ✩ Google ✩ Kobo ✩ iBooks ✩ IndieBound Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book.

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