By: Jeffrey Dale Lofton
“If you let fear make your decisions, you’ll never be what you are meant to be.”
This is a very popular book. It follows Philbet, a gay, physically deformed boy, who grows up in the south with a very conservative family. He gets bullied a lot and tries to figure out his way. He falls for a boy, Knox, who doesn’t seem to feel the same. His granddaddy is his favorite person in the world. This is a story based on true events, about Philbet navigating this life.
Soooooo, I hated the first half of the book. I don’t DNF books, and I’m glad I didn’t because I did enjoy the second half of the book.
The first half read like a memoir, and I feel like it could have been summed up in just a few chapters. I’ll be honest, I skimmed a lot of the first half of this book. The first chapter was great, and then it went back in time and it lost me.
But I’m someone that likes action, and I felt like there was no action in the beginning. I felt like there was no point to any of the first half other than to give me some background info, and background info shouldn’t take 50% of the book.
The second half was far better. It was interesting and engaging. There was more dialogue, which I love. I enjoy stories that are driven by dialogue. Just a personal preference.
All in all, it was a decent book. But I cannot give it more than 3 stars.
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