Hal Schrieve

2023. James is a bit of a slut. He’s gay and trans and has a crush on nearly everyone in the book. His best friend, Ian; his new crush, Orsino; and Jukebox January, the local rockstar.
There are three trans masc characters, two nonbinary characters, and one surprise trans femme, who comes out halfway through the book.
These kids are working on a rock opera fundraiser to save their lgbt center.
If all that isn’t enough, Orsino is psychic, and aliens are contacting him about trying to save the world by changing the timeline somewhere to prevent climate disaster.
So it’s messy, and the alien plot felt like too much, and also if it’s got to be in there I’d have liked them to have succeeded at saving the world. It felt like that plotline kind of petered out. However, kudos for trying to put all that into one book. It was definitely the book I want to exist, it just kind of failed to take it all the way to the conclusion I wanted.… (plus d'informations)