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Reader reviewed by Khy

[from the back of the book]

Love is never easy. Especially if you're Paul. He's a sophomore at a school like no other- and these are his friends:

Infinite Darlene, the homecoming queen and star quarterback.

Joni, Paul's best friend who may not be his best friend anymore.

Tony, his other best friend who can't leave the house unless his parents thinks he's going on a date...with a girl.

Kyle, the ex boyfriend who won't go away.

Rip, the school bookie, who sets the odds.

And Noah. The Boy. The one who changes everything.


Everything about this novel worked. The characters, the plot- everything just worked together in good way. Even though the characters aren't normal, they're real. They deal with normal problems, but the book presents them differently. Paul, the main character, may be a gay boy who goes to the weirdest high school in the weirdest town I've ever heard of, but he still has the same problems that people in normal high schools in normal towns deal with. He's losing his best friend because she can't stay away from her boyfriend, he's trying to find a way to help his slightly depressed friend deal with his sexuality and overprotective parents, his ex still has feelings for him and won't go away, and he likes a guy who likes him back and then they start going out but then Paul messes EVERYTHING up and has to fix it. The book may have an unrealistic setting, but the problems and plot are still realistic. It may not sound like those things work together, but they do.


I only disliked one thing about this book. In the end, I felt as if some things weren't resolved. Some of the problems in the book weren't really solved in the end, and if they were, the book didn't tell me. I could guess about what happened, but I don't want to guess. I want to know for sure.

All in all, it was a magnificent story.