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Autoboyography

Christina Lauren
Book
September
2021

Review:

My first thought when reading this book was that it was clearly not written by a queer person, but Lauren (one of the authors) is bi, so that is not entirely true. Maybe it was just the whole Mormon thing that made it weird, or maybe it was because it is an older book. Me, it just didn’t age well. I’m going to have some of my friends read it and see if I’m wrong, but I just felt like it was a little off. One of the other problems was I felt like it had so many problems, but they were presented in a way that made them small. These authors are meant to write adult books because it felt weird not to go into the more mature territory. I feel like it would have been better if that had because the author's writings truly suit it more. Many things made this book feel a little off, but I am interested to see what other people think.

Trigger Warnings:
Biphobia, Homophobia (religious), and Internalized homophobia

Synopsis From Book:

Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah. But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity. It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
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