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Last of the borrows I got for their HIV/AIDs portrayals. All well worth reading.

I started this book Wednesday and I just couldn‘t get into it. I put it down after two days and have no desire to pick it up. A lot of people have posted about how amazing it is but I just can‘t get into it.

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Wow. I‘ve read a third of this and find it intense and filled with real emotion. As a child of the 80s I connect to the time period very well. “Drunk Trivial Pursuit” and a reference for Prince blasting on the stereo so far.

This was a tough look back at the early 1980s and AIDS and how scary it was to love. I almost didn‘t read this because the cover just didn‘t do it for me, but I am glad I did.

This book is a must read. It‘s a coming of age tale set in the beginning of the AIDS crisis. It will squeeze and break your heart. It‘s a really beautiful book. It got four stars instead of five because there are no quotation marks. Please for the love of god authors please stop doing that. It‘s pretentious and annoying.

I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Scored this off #netgalley! I‘m psyched to read this, and to compare it with Like a Love Story, even though it‘s set a couple of years before LaLS. I‘m happy to see YA writers taking on the early days of AIDS, but I‘m also sad that they have to.