A YA gay romance novel, being cute and smiley while handling some big issues (sexual assault in flashbacks, toxic masculinity, and having to deal with unhinged parents*). Conversations on grief, race and sexuality also happen.
I really enjoyed seeing the emotional development of the characters,both the main couple and their friends. We see them growing up as teens to a more adult version, and leaving behing harmful behaviours doing so (the deconstruction of toxic masculinity in here is quite nice). It does take a while to get there, and they're pretty annoying at the start but it gets much better.
The darker topics were handled quite well, imo, and although the characters had to go through some awful shit you leave feeling they will be okay. They need therapy, but they will be okay.
I listened to the audiobook, which was fun since we had 2 actors for the 2 POVs. It was quite funny to listen to each of them make the voice for the other one (max's voice actor doing the "jordan" voice during max's POV, and vice versa)