Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

I must admit going into this book I really didn't know what to expect, this story has been told many times in many different guises. Some cleverer than others. You know a book gets you when you're driven to read it and you cannot put it down! I laughed, I cried and I hung on every word of Simon and Blue's emails. In a lot of ways this is a romance between two closeted homosexuals that happens to work out. it's nothing new and I'm largely over coming of age retellings about a guy who feels that coming out will change everything and using this as a right of passage. I really got into Simon's head reading this though and the way the book's written really flows and resonates. it's a beautiful, if cliched, high-school romance that deserves telling and it's told well.