This was funny and had great character voices–I loved Stephen and Marco's friendship and squabbles. It's like a combination of [b:Winger 11861815 Winger (Winger, #1) Andrew Smith https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1367927656s/11861815.jpg 16818567] and [b:The Great Greene Heist 17928557 The Great Greene Heist Varian Johnson https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1432313463s/17928557.jpg 25129212]?Another way this reminded me of Winger is that I thought it was a Fun Guy Friendship story but SURPRISE IT'S ABOUT HATE CRIMES!Ultimately it's nice to have another good, fun, realistic MG-appropriate story about a gay (multi-racial!) kid in my mental arsenal.
