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Beckett Gaines, a gay teen living in South Carolina, has his world turned upside-down by a jock in this laugh-out-loud novel that’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets The Parent Trap . The Golden Girls -loving, out-and-proud choir nerd growing up in the “ass-crack of the Bible belt.” The Golden Boy, star quarterback with a slick veneer facing uncomfortable truths about himself and his past. When Beck’s emotionally fragile dad starts dating the recently single (and supposedly lesbian) mom of former bully, Jaxon Parker, Beck is not having it. Jax isn’t happy about the situation either, holding out hope that his moms will reunite and restore the only stable home he’s ever known. Putting aside past differences, the boys plot to derail the budding romance between their parents at their conservative hometown’s first-ever Rainbow Prom. Hearts will be broken, new romance will bloom, but nothing will go down the way Beck and Jax have planned. In his hilarious and provocative debut, Greg Howard examines the challenges of growing up different in a small southern town through the lens of colorful and unforgettable characters who stay with you long after the last drop of sweet tea.
Publication Year: 2018
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honestly almost DNFd this book right with the first chapter because beckett is that unlikeable and the language he uses is just so awful.
this book is like the parent trap if the protagonists were assholes and there was a bit of semi pseudo incest thrown in. it wasn’t fun and i didn’t particularly want anyone other than maybe jojo to have a happy ending.
the lengths that beckett and jax went to in order to get their parents back together were....gross. the plot itself was a little bit convoluted (and again at times gross) such as high school kids getting anal bleaching and brazilians (???) and this being totally cool and fun and beckett trying to lose his virginity on a grindr-esque app where low and behold he’s magically catfished by jax and it’s just sort of introduced out of nowhere and doesn’t really add anything at all to the story.
it has the bones of a story that could have been good, but it just really wasn’t
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