i think either this needed to be aged down to middle grade, or marketed as younger ya and have the characters aged down (they did not act like 17 and 18 year olds). so many mentions of farts
also marketing this as horror is honestly pretty misleading, as even though Cade does have a love of horror movies, the actual horror-esque plotline is explained very quickly by a series of large misunderstandings 
HOWEVER i am happy that this books exists, imo more books talking about queer rural life are always a good thing