![]() ![]() ![]() Theo's head-space about his own body isn't positive at the start of the book, and honestly that was one of the things that dropped me right into the verisimilitude of his character as a reader: lord knows as a teen the last thing I would ever have felt about any part of my body was pride. Jeff Mann's Cub is far more NA and overtly erotic, but I just love that there are multiple options for young queer cubs to see themselves in fiction. This is actually the second novel I've read about a young husky/chubby/fat gay boy with the title Cub, and I want to take a second to celebrate that, too. (I should maybe start by saying if you don't know what a hi-lo book is, it's a high-interest, low-reading level book, meaning it's accessible without speaking down to the reader, focusing on language accessibility, without sacrificing complexity of plot.) I really liked this, and there's a lot in here for a short hi-lo book, which seems to me to be a delicate balance to pull off. ![]()
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