4 stars!
I very much enjoyed this. It was sweet but not too sweet, ya know?
I think my favorite part was the dialogue of Alex, June, and Nora, as well as the narration which kept Alex's voice. I loved the way it was written with a lot of full stops, "like"s, and colloquialisms. It was basically, like, the way I would speak--if I were more witty and adorable.

Some details to get out of the way first:
POV: 3rd person, single POV (Alex)
Tense: Present
HEA?:

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Yes or maybe HFN

Breakups?:

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An unofficial breakup around 60%, no contact for a week

Strict Top/Bottom?:

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Yes

Bigger Top or Bottom?:

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Bottom is taller

Angst: 2/5
Spice Frequency: 1/5 (it's hard to nail this down because sometimes the spice was just casually implied)
Spice Level: 0.5/5 (It's not exactly FTB because the scenes don't always cut away... But it'll be hinting at what's happening and telling the thoughts and feelings going on at the time instead of the physical part)

Thoughts on the Main Characters:
Alex:
- Stupid. So, so stupid (and I mean that with affection). But, like, smart, ya know?

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You're telling me this kid grew up in a Dem household and was fooling around with boys and fantasizing about boys, and never realized he wasn't straight? I could understand it if he had been repressed, but he wasn't.

- His personality was adorable--and we got to see a lot of it since the book is centered on him--but I also found him so frustrating. He was pretty emotionally stunted. But I guess that's realistic enough.
Henry:
- Definitely the sweeter one.
- 'Twas frustrating how he

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kept running away and ghosting Alex,

but it's not without reason.
- I love when we get to see his musical and poetic sides. He's really so sweeet to Alex

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in the emails.

Some other thoughts I had:
- Lol "WASPy Hunter"... just the name makes me chuckle. I love that we got to see him one last time at the end.
- Normally in MM books, I don't like the female side characters. But in this book, I was treated to not 1, not 2, but 5 ( ! ) female side characters that I loved: Amy, Bea, June, Nora, and (President) Ellen.
- I don't like Zahra as she is kinda the same overbearing female side character that so many books have. But being overbearing was pretty much her job, so she gets half a pass on that. And she came through for our boys when it counted. I really didn't like how she kept walking into Alex's rooms at the hotel or the residence. Like, maybe that's realistic for the position Zahra has over Alex, but it's weird and gross to me to barge into an adult's bedroom.
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I really did NOT like the part with Henry pretending to date June, and Alex pretending to date Nora. I can totally see this happening if this situation existed in real life, so this isn't a criticism of the book; nevertheless, I didn't like reading it--it made me feel icky.

Milestones (thar be spoilers!):
First Kiss:

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25% : Chapter 4 / Page 107

First Sex (oral):

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32% : Chapter 6 / Page 142

First Penetration:

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45% : Chapter 7 / Page 198

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Henry Leaves / Early Breakup:
60% : Chapter 9 / Page 263

First L Word - A to H:

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62% : Chapter 10 / Page 271

First L Word - H to A (implied):

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62% : Chapter 10 / Page 271

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Public Outing:
73% : Chapter 12 / Page 321

Some Favorite Quotes:
Alex keeps drinking, keeps alternating between thinking about it and forcing himself not to think about it, disappears into the crowd and dances with pretty European heiresses about it.

"As your mother, I can appreciate that maybe this isn't your fault, but as the president, all I want is to have the CIA fake your death and ride the dead-kid sympathy into a second term."

"I'd rather be waterboarded," Henry says, smiling back. The camera snaps nearby. His eyes are big and soft and blue, and he desperately needs to be punched in one of them. "Your country could probably arrange that."

He feels like a dog that has to be taken on walks to get his energy out. Especially when June says, "You're like a dog that has to be taken on walks to get his energy out."

He's maybe a little bit in awe of how Henry arches up off the mattress, at hearing his sweet, posh voice reciting a litany of profanities to the ceiling.

Henry returns the favor happily, hungrily, and Alex doesn't know or care what sounds or words come out of his mouth. He thinks one of them is "sweetheart" and another is "motherfucker." Henry is one talented bastard, a man of many hidden gifts, Alex muses half-hysterically. A true prodigy. God save the Queen.

He rolls onto his side and listens, trails the back of his hand across the pillow next to him and imagines Henry lying opposite in his own bed, two parentheses enclosing 3,700 miles.

He wants to match the new freckles across Henry's nose to the stars above them and make him name the constellations.