I’m glad that they maintained their friendship though.īut I still don’t think Sebastian should have treated Tanner that way.Īlso, I got to listen to the interview with the authors (Spoiler Alert: “Christina Lauren” is a combination of two authors: Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings! Seriously, go read their Goodreads bio), along with Deacon Lee, who narrated the book as Tanner (they had Kyle Mason as Sebastian’s POV but he wasn’t in the interview).

Knowing from the very beginning that Autumn had feelings for Tanner did help give readers a good idea of their dynamic, but some things I could’ve gone without. I felt like it was just entirely unnecessary. The relationship between Autumn and Tanner was nice for the most part, but I really didn’t enjoy certain aspects of it, which I won’t mention so I don’t spoil it but… if you know, you know. Even though his parents were extremely supportive and kind, I really hated that he was put in that position in the first place. Much like Leelynn said in her review, I liked the aspect of Tanner’s confidence in his own sexuality, and it really pained me that he had been forced back into the closet when his family moved from California to Provo, Utah. Many of them often just felt like they were defined by one of two things- Sebastian was a Mormon, Autumn was the love-sick, sassy best friend, Tanner’s mom was the uber-supportive but extremely cautious of the Mormon religion parent… and on and on. I genuinely enjoyed the characters, though I do think that they all felt a bit two dimensional at times. They were a cute, easy couple to root for. However, beyond that little annoyance, I really enjoyed their actual relationship. Their actual relationship takes a little while to start up, but I still feel like the whole “love at first sight” gets overplayed too often. I am not a fan of the insta-love and it was really weird to me that both Tanner and Sebastian knew they wanted to be together from their first look at each other the first day in class.

I have to admit that at first, I wasn’t feeling this very much.

But there’s actually more to it, as well. On the surface it’s your average “boy meets boy, boy falls for boy, boy struggles to come out” story. ***īy this point, you’ve already read what the book is about, so I’m going to skip over trying to summarize the plot. This time, we did a buddy read on Autoboyography by Christina Lauren in honor of Pride Month! Be sure to check out my review first before reading this one (or not. I don’t think you guys realize how freaking excited I am to be back doing buddy reads and discussions with this amazing girl Brittany! Seriously, if you aren’t following her already, you definitely need to ASAP! She is one of the closest book friends I’ve ever had, and even though I went into hiding (not literally, but sort of) for more than a year, we still got back into our groove like it was no big deal!

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