![]() none of the female characters had any personality now that I think about it, the male characters weren't much better either, tbh (J's parents and Chanelle got the closest, but Blue and Melissa were just boring props to J's story) the use of Spanish in the novel wasn't obnoxious (I hate it when authors or TV shows use a line in Spanish and then repeat the exact same line in English, instead of letting the context show its meaning here, the author did the latter) for YA lit, it's pretty up-to-date on trans* politics - which could be a good or bad thing, depending on how you feel about the asterisk ![]() the story got a little tiresome, especially with a lack of realistic and likeable characters the main character is a self-absorbed jerk with no capacity for self-reflection and unfortunately goes through absolutely no development in that respect ![]() ![]() the homophobia and misogyny was relentless and went more or less unaddressed ("omg, don't call me a lesbian, ANYTHING but a lesbian, gross" "a bunch of guys are sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl in the other room? I don't care about that stupid bitch" "how dare you compare it to rape when I start making out with my non-consenting best friend while she's sleeping" "I was only attracted to you because I must have known you were secretly a man inside" etc.) ![]()
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