THIS IS MY FAVORITE LGBTQIA+ BOOK OF THIS YEAR, LOVED IT SO SO MUCH.

Riley Cavanaugh is a gender fluid teenager. Gender Fluid is not a common theme in LGBTQIA+ YA books that I have read and Garvin did it justice. Before reading the book, I did not have any knowledge of gender fluid however after reading I fully understood this. Garvin does a great job of being informative for the reader to better understand gender fluidity and other members of LGBTQIA+ community.

Garvin does not write Riley with pronouns in this book because Riley will one day feel like a girl and the next feel like a boy or neither on any given day. Seeing Riley's struggles through this novel were very realistic. There are severe bullying scenes which felt like a realistic because the LGBTQIA+ community does deal with the dangers of their sexuality and many are abused for their sexuality. Mental health also appears in this book. TRIGGER WARNING FOR SUICIDE.

Riley is trying to find an outlet to discuss being gender fluid because Riley's parents just weren't understanding. Riley resorts to blogging and becomes what we know was "tumblr famous" on a site similar to Tumblr. Riley becomes very popular in the Internet world, an icon to the LGBTQIA+ community. Also, Riley can relate to the feeling of getting lost in the Internet and realizing the screen says 2AM when it did say 8PM.

As this book is about a gender fluid teen, we also see many other aspects of the LGBTQIA+ community within the characters Riley meets and other instances such as Riley reading stories of other people in the LGBTQIA+ community and helping a blog follower make a life-changing decision. Therefore, I learned a lot about other sexualities of the LGBTQIA+ community than just gender fluidity. I absolutely loved this book and devoured it.

If any book fits into the LGBTQIA+ YA genre, it's this one. Garvin did an outstanding job representing LGBTQIA+ as a community rather than just focusing on the Gender Fluid aspect of this novel.