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Average rating3.3
"Elliot is a writer who spends his days navigating the back stabbing, the pressure, and the day-to-day snark of writing aggressively average television. In laugh out loud detail, we're immediately with him on his journey to try to get his lines onto the screen. But there's a deeper, and more poignant, story beating at the heart of this would be rom com: instead of the usual boy meets boy, the person you really fall in love with, the one you're rooting for until the end, is the protagonist himself. As a gay man with cerebral palsy, Elliot has always searched for the one, and he thought he found that person in Gus, his doting boyfriend. And yet, he can't seem to stop cheating"--
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DNF 15% in.
I definitely had the wrong expectations of this book.
Oh boy! I loved this debut! It was so raw and true. It opens your eyes to what it is like for a disabled person in the LGBTQIA+ community. There are some similarities to the author's show on Netflix, but I highly suggest you pick this up when it releases!
Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O'Connell releases June 7, 2022!
Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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