The gay rep feels so raw and authentic, which was my favorite aspect of the book. When Matt stops eating, though, things start to fall into place: the hungrier he is, the stronger his newfound powers get, until he’s suddenly able to stop time, hear things towns away, and smell the history of every student in his school.įirst of all, it’s an own-voices m/m book, and you can tell. I’ll add full content warnings for the book itself at the bottom of my review.Ī lot of things are going wrong in Matt’s life lately: his sister has gone missing, he’s bullied relentlessly for being gay, he can’t come out to his mom because she’s too beaten down from her under-paying job, and worst of all, he’s got a crush on the guy he thinks is responsible for his sister running away. Since this is a book about eating disorders, I’ll go ahead and warn that my review on its own could potentially be triggering. You can have two ideas that are total opposites and believe them both completely.” “That’s one of the more infuriating bugs in the human software.
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