Status Updates From The Nothingness of Ben

If I had a nickel for every gay book I read this year that at least partially took place in New York and had one of the gay protagonists sing 'Ben' by Michael Jackson only for another character to mention that it's about a rat, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Wanted to read something queer, but my bookshelves are a bit replete of that good ole queer YA. I bought this book in 2019 - a little before the queer YA-boom, and there just wasn't any gay stuff in the American Book Center for me - so this feels like as good a time as any to delve into this one. Let's go...

So far the story is pretty uncomfortable. I don't like it when characters make the wrong decisions again and again even though they should clearly know better.

“Just some guy my dad took in. He’s nobody, really."

Now that's really low. Ben still needs to do something that actually makes me like him...