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aroaessidhe · 7 months

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2024 reads / storygraph

Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks

YA contemporary + a little sff

follows a boy who suddenly finds himself able to teleport when he walks through doors, often against his will

and has to figure that out while dealing with a new crush, the end of high school and the queer club, and figuring out whether he definitely wants to train to be an ASL interpreter like his father

#Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #this was def one that is just a short YA book to read that was available at the library and i’d seen it has an ace SC so why not #It's fine! a little silly and definitely quirky. felt very 2018-queer-ya #both in use of the random sf element and also like. mc has a big friend group in every flavor #talked about addressed queer discourse in a relevant way most of the time (ie what’s the difference between bi and pan? whatever u want)#I thought the inclusion of ASL and the MC planning to be an interpreter - and the steep learning curve of that - was interesting #I think the ace character was done mostly well but a) why did it bring it up in a way that his aceness inherently took him out of the MC’s #(as the ace char still goes on dates with boys)#and b) why was the ace character ostricised from the queer club and not the guy who was aphobic to him #The sf thing is a little random but I feel like it gelled ok. It fit pretty well within this subgenre of #‘contemporary YA with a little sff but the sff is just there for the MC’s journey and it’s still mainly contemporary ‘#the whole secret agents thing was a bit silly. but also it kinda worked with the quirkiness.

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