Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Boyfriends follows the four titular, uh, boyfriends (a nerd, a prep, a jock, and a goth—they don’t have names) as they navigate being in a polyamorous relationship together for the first time while also having standard college student/early-twenties problems.

Look, I’m going to be totally real: Boyfriends has… not ZERO plot, but it’s pretty sparse. But you don’t read Boyfriends for the plot; you read it because it’s cute and fun and silly and it makes you smile. The art is pretty, the colors are a joy, and the characters and their relationship dynamic are really genuine and sweet. They’re archetypical, sure, but it never feels mean-spirited, and each of the boyfriends has lots of room for their own personality to shine through (plus room for character growth, as much as that’s a thing in this mainly episodic series).

I’ve been reading the Webtoon for a couple years now, and it’s just as delightful in this more traditional comic format (barring a few times the dialogue flow is hard to follow). Is it saccharine? Sure. Is it cringey? Sometimes! But it really never fails to perk me up on a bad day, and so it has a very special place in my soft heart. Definitely check it out if you’re in the mood for a pastel queer romance that’s fluff all the way through (which I basically always am, thanks)!