Name: Autoboyography
Rating: 4.170529801324503 (302 reviews)
ISBN: 9781481481687

Christina Lauren

Autoboyography

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Matthew

The characters were amazing and their journey was so good!!  

Brittany Peterson

Loved this book!!! 

Such a good LGBTQIA2S+ story!! 

The characters were amazing and their journey was so good!!  

Julia Moran 

I really loved this book, it's beautiful and I literally read it in two sittings. It's just so bittersweet and I feel very deeply for Sebastian and every person who has to go through something like that I'm sure it's not easy at all.

Jeannette Ordas

This is sweet and lovely and everything I want to read during a time of uncertainty and quarantine. I really liked the characters, including Tanner's parents, and the love and heartbreak story of two people with wildly differing backgrounds was great.

Marsha Evelyn

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

I love how this book turned out to be heartwarming, cute and all that sweet story between Tanner Scotts and Sebastian Brother. Tanner's confusion about what book he should read, makes me smile while reading it. 

And when he had crush on Sebastian, it's no other than cute. I love every minute of this sweet story. What a page turner. And how Sebastian admitted he's into boys... and the kiss scene... melts my heart!! Such a beautiful love story halfway. It was also so sad when I realized Sebastian being in denial because he's about to go on a book tour and a mission as a missionary as a bishop's son. It broke my heart to pieces about him and Tanner broke up.

But, it comes by all sweet (maybe the sweetest after he cancels his missionary journey to visits and moves to LA to be with Tanner. What a cute and sweet ending. 10 0ut of 10!

Fangirl meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this funny and poignant coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class—one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community. Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah. But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity. It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.

Alex

I really liked this book!!!!

Very quick read. I could relate to Tanner, the main character, a lot. The way he talks and responds to people felt so real. Sebastian was also such a good character and perfectly portrayed the struggles of growing up queer and religious in my opinion.

Only reason why I did not give it 5 stars is that the last few chapters just felt a bit too short for me? Like I was missing something. And honnestly I just wanted more of these two, especially how they would figure out their relationship while in college. You have a lot of books of queer kids standing up for themselves and choosing for their love instead of their family and I just feel like this book would be perfect to showcase what would come after that.

But overal, great book, great characters and amazingly written.

Fátima

Me alegro mucho por el final que tuvo este libro, casi esperaba que pasara todo lo contrario y si pasaba creo que no iba a soportarlo. No ha perdido el realismo de la situación, pero tampoco se ha vuelto totalmente desgarrador —que era lo que yo estaba esperando casi desde que empezaron los últimos capítulos—.

De alguna u otra forma, al leerlo me sentí tan frustrada. Es decir, soy una persona que cree cien por ciento en el amor verdadero, pero que también cree que no todo el mundo va a conocerlo en su vida, porque enfrentémoslo, es prácticamente imposible. Así que, el hecho de que un par de personas lo encuentren, y no puedan vivirlo por culpa de los prejuicios de la sociedad, me frustra muchísimo. Me molesta demasiado. Y leyendo este libro pude profundizar en este sentimiento y entenderlo mejor. 

El hecho de que se trate la religión desde ambas caras de la moneda (los que creen y los que no) también ha sido algo que me ha gustado mucho del libro. Porque, tenemos los dos puntos de vista, así que no se "sataniza" ninguno de los dos. No te dicen que una está en lo correcto y la otra no, te muestra una perspectiva, te deja pensar por ti mismo. Te enseña que son las personas quienes al final del día, deciden lo que está bien y lo que no, para ellos.

Personalmente, sí que creo en Dios. Toda mi vida fui criada bajo la religión católica, incluso asistí a un colegio religioso antes de entrar a la universidad. Y creo. Pero también creo esa misma frase que aparecía en el libro, y que ahora parafrasearé: Ningún Dios digno de tu amor eterno, te juzgaría por las personas que decidiste amar mientras estabas aquí.

Mi mamá siempre me enseñó que si una persona es buena, debería darte totalmente igual su orientación sexual. Y creo que es totalmente cierto. No creo que Dios juzgue a alguien por amar sin hacerle daño a nadie. Probablemente te juzgue por odiar, por señalar y por no aceptar a otros, por usar su nombre como excusa para hacer daño. Tiene más sentido ¿no creen? 

Así que sí, a medida que leía este libro, y que veía todo el dolor por el que pasaba el pobre Sebastian, me sentía impotente. No es justo que un alma tan bonita como la suya tuviese que sufrir tanto, solamente porque siempre le enseñaron que lo que él era estaba en contra de todo lo que era bueno. No es justo. Pero me gustaba como, a pesar de todo eso, él seguía creyendo, sabía que lo que estaban mal eran las reglas de los hombres, sabía que no estaba haciendo nada malo.

Y su amor con Tanner fue lo más bonito que pude leer. La forma en la que se da, porque Tann no es capaz de cerrar la boca y disimular (ay cómo lo quiero, vaya), me hacía sonreír mucho. Parecían tan diferentes, eran las dos caras de una misma moneda, y estaban allí para ayudarle a crecer al otro. Y los quiero, y me duele que les costase tanto ser felices.

Sebastian, my poor baby. Cómo me rompía el corazón. Merece ser protegido a toda costa. Era tan dulce, inocente y noble que este mundo no se lo merece. Y me da gusto que Tanner lo ayudase a crecer y a enfrentarse a sus miedos, y me da gusto que sean ambos escritores y yo sé que eso no viene al caso, pero hombre, tenía que decirlo. Estoy muy orgullosa de ambos, y mi corazón no puede. Ahhhh. 😭😭😭💕💕💕

Also, mención especial para la familia de Tanner porque se merecían el cielo, y para Auddy que siempre demostró ser una buena amiga —lo que hizo por ellos con el libro hizo que se ganara absolutamente todo mi respeto—. Este libro no es sólo romance, es amistad y familia. Y al final, todo es muy bonito.

Kailey Rios

i don’t even know what to say except that i absolutely loved this book. whenever i had to stop reading to do something else, i just kept thinking about when i’d be able to continue. i can very much relate to sebastian’s situation which made it seem all the more real to me and i loved the hopeful but open ending. one of my favorite books i’ve read this year, for sure.


  4.75 stars

Megan Lowe

I loved this book! I don’t know why I haven’t read it sooner, but I’m glad I read it now, it’s a new favourite.
I loved Sebastian and Tanner. They’re great.
I loved the humour in this book, I loved the seriousness of this book, I loved the heartbreak of this book.
If you love YA MM stuff, this is up your alley. Even if you don’t, I recommend you give it a go!

jess

Okay, this book was unexpectedly incredible - adorable, with a wonderfully-written romance and an exploration of some very heavy topics without being too heavy itself. I'm not keen on books with white gay cis boys (who, let's be real, get so much attention in media), but the book was free and ready to be read, so I checked it out, and I am so glad I did so, because I think it was one of my favourite romances of the year. 

I really loved Tanner. He was SO EMBARRASSING. I had my face buried in my hands ON PUBLIC TRANSIT because the second-hand embarrassment was almost too much to take. He is a flawed teenager who makes so many mistakes, and yes, I got angry at him at some points in the book. Tanner was raised with a particular worldview and he can be kind of narrow minded because of it. But for the most part, he was pretty lovable. His relationship with Autumn was really good and sweet; I really loved their friendship. They were so close and are honestly friendship goals; teenagers in YA who know how to communicate! And SEBASTIAN. I didn't know this would be a T.A./student romance going into it, so I'd say be cognizant if you're uncomfortable with that, but they're both adults and Sebastian is only a year older than Tanner, so I was into it once I figured out that Tanner was 18. 

The romance between Tanner and Sebastian was like, ridiculously well-written. Yes, a bit cliche and definite insta-love was going on there, admittedly, but honestly. T.A./student romance, you'd expect it to be a bit clichey. And I'm a bit more willing to let insta-love slide when it's an LGBT romance, but I think Christina Lauren did a really good job of developing their relationship and getting to know each other outside the basal attraction part as well. The romantic tension was amazing; basically, these two boys were precious and so real and learning to navigate uncharted territory. I would love to protect Sebastian from everything. 

Because Autoboyography does deal with the intersection of religion and sexuality, and Mormonism is rather less understood than Christianity and somewhat more hostile to LGBTQ people (which is the subject of most books which deal with both topics). I feel like - even though Tanner did have some preconceptions - Mormonism was treated with respect and I learned a lot about it. Tanner did learn to respect the church and its importance in Sebastian's life, but it's recognized that it does have problems, but it didn't end completely on a sour note. Watching Sebastian go through coming out was heartbreaking, though, especially seen from the point of view of Tanner, who's openly bisexual. I loved Tanner's parents though and how embarrassingly proud they were of his bisexuality. And I loved how Tanner was so comfortable in his bisexuality. The bi rep in this one was SO GOOD; my bisexual self is singing its praises. 

All in all, this was a very fluffy read that does have its heavy parts, and if you're looking for a very well-written m/m romance, this is the book you want. 

This review and others can be found on my blog!

Charlotte 

Shan

I liked it, the start and middle was amazing! A really cute romance book but I found the end a little tacky and predictable, but overall it was a great read.

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