Book 4 is more than 100 pages longer than the first three combined.
This is not a stand-alone book so read books 1-3 first either as
Tales from Foster High or individually, first.
As the boys discover there is a vast difference between what the law
allows and requires and what a small-minded closed society accepts.
Mercifully for our pair high school students have short attention
spans and today's sensation rapidly becomes boring history and
matters settle down to a dull roar. As with any high school romance
theirs has its ups and downs. What no one saw coming was the prom
queen's settling for friendship. Seems she isn't the vapid air-head
one might have thought, but then neither is the jock she once dated.
Having grown up poor on a rural Nova Scotia farm I have trouble
identifying with kids who get a car at 16, obviously have generous
allowances and/or part time jobs, and are sexually active.
My one major complaint with this book is that the point of view
changes so often it is hard to keep track of who is doing the
narration, Brad or Kyle.
The book takes on so much more than the coming of age story of two
gay teens in a small, close-minded, bigoted North Texas Community. It
also tackles the issues of involuntary outing, cyber bullying, gay
suicide, conversion therapy--the so-called straight camps, and the
moral argument against homosexuality. Kyle knows his Bible, chapter
and verse better than I do.
The latter part of the book needs some editing for grammatical errors
such as subject/verb agreement. Brad's Christmas gift of 3 quarters,
a nickel and a penny adds up to more than 4 coins. Those quibbles
aside once I got into this book it was difficult to put it down.
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