1) I really like the way this book handled queerness and let it exist between soft and sexual without leaning too much into either direction. With a lot of queer relationships in media, they either get completely softened or overly sexualized and Jake and Allister are somewhere between those two points. 

2) I do not like the fact that the mass shooter decides to shoot up a school because he was almost raped and his mother believed that he was actually forcing himself on the rapist. I'm utterly exhausted with this stupid ass trope, particularly in books about gay men. I don't want to read about rape. It's not fun and, even if the point is that it's a wrong stereotype, it always ends up playing into the stereotype that adult gay men are predators.

just because racial slurs are period accurate doesn't mean you can just throw them in like it's nothing <3

I was really concerned that even if the point of it was that it was bad, there was a possibility that Marcos taking advantage of Jasmine would be justified at the end and I'm really glad they didn't go that route. Also. that part where he goes and has sex with Spanel. That was weird and unnecessary. Also. people don't just smell like jasmine it had to be the soap he was using or something. 

had to dock a lot of points for all the weird pedophilia tee hee

screamed and cried and finished 2 hours after I bought it