![]() ![]() His best friend is Charlie who has a difficult home life and is boiling under the surface with a lot of rage and unresolved internalised homophobia…and then Ant’s old friend Jack is seated next to them in class again. “Certain words are necessary because this is real life, but you can’t actually show ’em because we’re too young to read about the stuff we actually do, yeah?”Īnt is fifteen and life is complicated. It was a very good way of pointing at a problem in censoring literature. ![]() There are also lots of blacked-out words when talking about swearing and sex - because, as the narrator points out, he’s too young to read it but he is old enough to live it. The style felt perfect: scratchy and wild at times, and just really seemed to capture the narrator’s tumultuous perspective. ![]() (A Monster Calls did this with blistering poignancy.) I always like how Ness books take on quite big topics and then show them through the factual and raw view-point of a teen. It contrasts physical and emotional intimacy in a thoughtful yet sometimes sad way. This one is a novella that packs an emotional punch about a 15-year-old queer boy struggling with internalised homophobia and what it means to be intimate. ![]() When a new Patrick Ness book comes out, I always want to read it. ![]()
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