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Jul 25, 2015sayle rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Book-loving, dance-loving Tretch has fallen in love with his straight best friend Matt. Tretch has to navigate his jealously over Matt’s romantic interest in a girl, his uncertainty over how to handle a female acquaintance’s crush, and his fears about coming out. Unlike many teenaged characters in YA fiction, Tretch felt like a real teenager, and not someone with the wisdom and experience of an adult in a younger body. This realism more than compensated for the few laughably unrealistic bits needed for plot purposes, such as a Geminid meteor shower predicted to last from precisely 10 to 11 p.m. It was also refreshing to read about functional families -- Tretch’s immediate family, Matt’s two dads, and Tretch’s grandparents -- whose members all love one another deeply and show it through words and deeds. This is a poignant, but ultimately joyful, novel about love in all its forms, the inevitability of change, and the necessity of embracing “that which is good” now.