going insane over this (in a good way)

This is the book I wish existed when I was twelve. Although it really is a bit predictable at times, it is overall a really entertaining book. Most of all, it combines so many facets of the representation of myself I wanted to see as a child, as a latine person who was not yet aware that they were queer, in the genre that I could never read too much of, and I was absolutely ecstatic to discover that it existed, and equally as happy to read it, as see myself represented in ways that I never had when I was younger, which is also an especially funny thing to say as someone who is literally the same age as the characters themselves.

Also since I originally read this book and wrote the review for it I have discovered that I am in fact transgender, which might be why the book hit so close to home upon my first reading of it, because I knew that there was something gender-related going on with me when I read the book but I did not know what it was until later.