Humor: I learned a new term, “malaphor,” which occurs by mixing clichés. And just how far will haters go in their intimidation? Then, there are questions like whether it’s safer to hide their shift to boyfriends at school, with its increasingly tense atmosphere. I love the plot twist that reveals their desires and permits physical contact.
“Did I have to come out to my parents? Why should I have to come out? Couldn’t it just be accepted…? Why did it all of a sudden have to be a thing because I had feelings for someone?” Thus, it’s natural for both guys to have nerves, unable to ask whether the other is gay, and to fear that intimacy could cost them their carefully acquired friendship. For example, Sebastian had assumed he was straight.
I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or bite my fingernails anxiously.Īs it turns out, DJ and Sebastian fit well, though they approach intimacy with the appropriate hesitance for a complex relationship. This community of friends/frenemies personify the rapidly changing allegiances and miscommunications of adolescence to a “t.” (Excuse a bad pun.) Even their parents and teachers are gritty and human, but well-rounded and supportive. Then Sebastian’s best friend, Emery, also betrays him, befriending Kim, and the boys grow even closer, sometimes including Smith, Emery’s ex. Sebastian had crushed on Darcy from afar, but finds DJ more approachable, and equally as intriguing. When ex-cheerleader “Darcy” arrives at his Senior year as “DJ,” he loses his best friend, Kim, stirs up a ton of malicious gossip and gains a new friend, Sebastian.
Despite his unique problems, protagonist DJ’s issues and coping strategies are identifiable. Gray pens typical teens with average feelings, never once exaggerating to elicit emotion. But for a transgender guy in a conservative, trans/homophobic town, all three are appropriate. Gray’s Burn That Bridge, I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or bite my fingernails anxiously.
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