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Autoboyography
- Narrated by: Deacon Lee, Kyle Mason
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Includes an extended interview with Christina Hobbs, Lauren Billings, and narrator Deacon Lee!
Fangirl meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this funny and poignant coming-of-age novel from New York Times best-selling author Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class - one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community.
Three years ago Tanner Scott's family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.
But when his best friend, Autumn, dares him to take Provo High's prestigious Seminar - where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester - Tanner can't resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.
It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-08-15
Very lovely story
I just loved this story. It made me laugh and cry many times. It is full of innocence and wisdom at the same time. I highly recommend it.
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- Geeky Mama
- 2020-08-14
I’m not sure about the ending.
Overall I’d give this book a 3.5.
I did like the narration but I’m not sure I saw the reasoning behind separate narrators. While both of the narrators did a really good job, I feel like it just added to the disjointed feeling the abrupt switch from first person to third person near the end of the book caused. For me that was a significant problem. There are several ways the authors could have handled switching narratives. I’m the interview at the end they justify this decision by saying they meant for the majority of the book to feel like Tanners book and the end to feel like it’s Sebastians perspective but that definitely didn’t come across. Going from first person to third abruptly just felt like sloppy writing. Authors shouldn’t want to pull their readers out of the story because immersion is absolutely necessary for enjoyment so I don’t buy their justification that it was intentional.
Mix the abrupt change in narrative with a change in narrators at the same time and the result is quite unsettling.
Overall content wise I liked the story. It felt well researched and I thought the romance was cute. I also liked that the book doesn’t outright condemn religion. Instead it paints a realistic picture, both good and bad, and let’s the reader decide for themselves on how they feel.
The cover art is absolutely gorgeous!
I also really enjoyed the characters and felt they were for the most part well rounded.
However, I had a problem with the ending.
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Sebastian struggles for so long with his faith and sexuality. It is a large part of the books focus. Religion and faith was a huge part of his identity. Still, I was happy when he finally decided to be true to himself with regards to his sexuality. After their breakup I was hoping they would reunite.
During which I really didn’t see the point in having Tanner sleep with his best friend. It didn’t do anything for the story other then add unnecessary drama that didn’t go anywhere. If you removed any mention of it from the story nothing would change so I don’t get why it happened in the first place. It made Autumn into kind of a shitty person. She knew Tanner didn’t like her like that but she “takes advantage of him” (her words) anyway. She made him feel like crap, she turned him into a “cheater” (again her words) and almost ruined their friendship. Boy or girl if my best friend did that we would no longer be friends. Sexual coercion is not okay! I don’t care if you really really love the person or not.
That aside, I hoped Sebastian would reunite with Tanner. I’m a sucker for a happily ever after. Yet when they finally did it felt rushed and thrown together.
I hated that we were left with a “we need to talk” moment that faded to black with Sebastians parents. There was no closure to the inevitable blow up his decision would have caused especially given he made it only moments before the huge party meant just for him.
The impression given by the rest of the book was the Sebastian would absolutely be disowned and excommunicated from the church should he chose to live as a gay man. His parents and family completely stopped speaking to him for weeks at just the suggestion he MIGHT be gay. Yet we are supposed to believe they changed their minds when he not only confirms it but chooses to act on it as well?
I can believe God was giving Tanner a “life lesson” when Sebastian conveniently finds him on the huge UCLA campus at the exact moment he happened to go outside with his (gay Mormon) friend. But there no way that Sebastians family would be “working [their] way back to each other” after he turned down his mission to be with a man.
I get that Sebastian being disowned doesn’t fit in with the neat little happy for now the authors tried to create but if they wanted the ending to be believable they should have shown his family having even the tiniest amount of compassion towards his sexuality at any point during the novel. They didn’t though, in fact it was suggested that parents within the religion would rather have a dead child than one living a “gay lifestyle.”
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