- Oh my goodness, this book. MAN O' WAR is one of those very special books that only comes along every few years. It is full of feelings: intensity, confusion, attraction, hate, love.
- I love the depiction here of River coming out as lesbian and then realizing that label doesn't quite fit, and starting over again.
- I also appreciated the way this book shows how sometimes a family isn't understanding or supportive of queerness, but also doesn't kick their child out. I feel like teen coming out stories are often binary: a fully supporting family or immediate disownment, when realities are often messier than that.