What the publisher’s description doesn’t tell you is the full scope of issues the characters are dealing with. Usually I think comparisons to other books are generally inaccurate or forced, but the comparison here to The Perks of Being a Wallflower is dead on. Once I divested myself of those false ideas, I was able to enjoy this for the rather bleak book that it was. The ideas in my head/the chatter I’d heard ended up being almost entirely wrong. For some reason I had the ideas “fun” and “love story” in my brain. I heard some chatter about bisexual characters or a polyamorous relationship. I knew it had LGBTQIA+ characters, so it went on my list as something I hoped to get time to read. I’m not entirely sure what I had expected when I picked this book up. Even as life in his foster home starts to take its toll, Sebby and Mira together craft a world of magic rituals and impromptu road trips, designed to fix the broken parts of their lives.Īs Jeremy finds himself drawn into Sebby and Mira’s world, he begins to understand the secrets that they hide in order to protect themselves, to keep each other safe from those who don’t understand their quest to live for the impossible. Sebby, Mira’s gay best friend, is a boy who seems to carry sunlight around with him. When he sees Sebby for the first time across the school lawn, it’s as if he’s been expecting this blond, lanky boy with mischief glinting in his eye. Jeremy is the painfully shy art nerd at Saint Francis who’s been in self-imposed isolation after an incident that ruined his last year of school.
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