I have read it, and now I've read your review and omg, YES!
Which, okay, it works as and ending and whatever, but it made me ANGRY.
Whereas me, it traumatised like crazy. Because I'm an optimist, so I totally expected a happy ending. Mostly.
I mean, the first half felt pretty safe, you know? With Sprout being reasonably middle class and his father, okay, was a drunk, but he was a relatively functional drunk, or at least not really screwing Sprout up any more than he already was. And yeah, I too was starting to 'ship Sprout/Ian and waiting for Ian to develop some sort of a character so I could like him. But then Ty.
And aaaaaaaah Ty is so broken and everything about his life is UPSETTING, and then he has moments of awesome (like, "Did you think I'd bring a loaded gun? AHAHAHA!") and now I'm really worried about him! Because I never really doubted Sprout would be okay, but Ty is Not Okay, and there is no ending for him, of any kind, and dammit, that is UNFAIR! Even angsty fanfic would have GIVEN HIM AN ENDING!
So, basically, I was traumatised for a day and a half, worrying about Ty (and wondering what you'd said about the book) and I had to medicate myself with fanfic (which, thankfully, I had taken with me on holiday).
And it made me want to write a dozen fluffy happy gay teen romances and fill up every school library with them, from here to eternity.
(Plus, man, of the four novels I read on holiday, only one of them had a protagonist whose mother was still alive. *throws up hands in despair*)
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Which, okay, it works as and ending and whatever, but it made me ANGRY.
Whereas me, it traumatised like crazy. Because I'm an optimist, so I totally expected a happy ending. Mostly.
I mean, the first half felt pretty safe, you know? With Sprout being reasonably middle class and his father, okay, was a drunk, but he was a relatively functional drunk, or at least not really screwing Sprout up any more than he already was. And yeah, I too was starting to 'ship Sprout/Ian and waiting for Ian to develop some sort of a character so I could like him. But then Ty.
And aaaaaaaah Ty is so broken and everything about his life is UPSETTING, and then he has moments of awesome (like, "Did you think I'd bring a loaded gun? AHAHAHA!") and now I'm really worried about him! Because I never really doubted Sprout would be okay, but Ty is Not Okay, and there is no ending for him, of any kind, and dammit, that is UNFAIR! Even angsty fanfic would have GIVEN HIM AN ENDING!
So, basically, I was traumatised for a day and a half, worrying about Ty (and wondering what you'd said about the book) and I had to medicate myself with fanfic (which, thankfully, I had taken with me on holiday).
And it made me want to write a dozen fluffy happy gay teen romances and fill up every school library with them, from here to eternity.
(Plus, man, of the four novels I read on holiday, only one of them had a protagonist whose mother was still alive. *throws up hands in despair*)