Maya’s Reviews > I Kissed Shara Wheeler > Status Update

“One kid comes out and before you know it everyone else feels empowered to be themselves from the football dudebros to the suspiciously single history teacher, everyone clapped” is so incongruent with my lived experience of quiet acceptance that every time a YA book does it I feel like we’ve slipped into an alternate dimension. I love hopeful queer stories but the circumstances feel so fabricated (classic McQuiston)

I would probably enjoy this a lot more if I didn't hate McQuiston so much (I thought it'd been long enough that I could go in neutral but I was wrong). I do think they made the jump to YA well. There's a lot of emphasis on how you don't know everything about your friends + classmates even if you think you do