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Slight spoilers ahead please be warned!

It Looks Like This is now a top favorite of mine, next to Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda and Looking for Alaska and maybe even the Shadowhunter Chronicles! This book is artistic in its own way and definitely out of the ordinary. While other YA books tend to leave parents out of the picture I loved that this book incorporated a lot of ideas and issues other books don't focus on. 'It Looks Like This' shows another side of YA that focuses on sexuality, along with family importance and acceptance and other issues, bullying, and even religion. The main character takes you along a colorful coming of age journey to self acceptance and first love. The background characters such as, Ronald and Jared while tend to not be focused on too much are still given great detail, especially Ronald and his mother, Jeri. I thought the lack of quotations made the book seem more familiar and casual, as if Mike was writing this all down or speaking directly to you. I felt if this book had had formal dialogue it just wouldn't have been the same. It's like the difference between writing a story for school and telling your friends a story. One's formal and the other is casual. Though the romance was on the lower side of this novel it is definitely set to the side for the book to focus on more important aspects. The relationship Mike and Toby have as siblings is really well shown, they always seem to look out for each other and reminds me a lot of my relationship with my younger brother. While others may look past all of this books greatest details I know it all comes back to the ever basic troupe of a lesson learned from a death, but I tend to base my opinion of the all together story and for me, it really set up a great story. It was cute, fun, and relatable but most importantly this book sends a great message of acceptance, self acceptance and acceptance of friends and family, to love people for who they are.





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