This is difficult because I wasn’t really given much MG/YA when it was age appropriate. Overall, it was a disappointing read that could’ve been improved by a pov change.What was your favorite book when you were a child? It wasn’t addressed enough in my opinion afterwards. He already knew they could be homophobic but he didn’t anyway. What cemented my dislike of Tristan was that he “accidentally” outed Robbie to their parents. It almost had a tone of “the gay likes hockey! the hetero likes theatre!” Every other gay character shown (all two of them) are portrayed as really flamboyant and it had a negative tone to it.
Instead we get a lot of Tristan receiving homophobia. The book implies this is a large reason for his struggles but it’s never explored enough. We don’t find out he’s gay until about half way through the book. The book should’ve been told from Robbie’s pov, no questions asked. He was honestly terrible, is it really too much to share a room with your brother to make sure he’s safe? Not Tristan, who seemed to care more about having to share his room with Robbie than the fact that Robbie almost killed himself. I cared where Robbie’s mental health was and how he was coping with his sexuality. I didn’t give two damns about whether Tristan got the girl he liked or how theatre went. The book doesn’t feel like Tristan’s story, it was Robbie’s.
Especially when it’s the focus of the story. You know what one of my least favourite things is? When a characters struggles is shown from an outsider’s perspective. It sounded like something I would like but a terrible main character and other plot elements resulted in the opposite. I expected something else from this, and I didn’t get it. Rep: gay side character, black love interest Tristan starts seeing his twin not as a hockey star whose shadow Tristan can’t escape, but a struggling gay teen terrified about coming out in the professional sports world. Robbie’s future in the NHL is plagued by anxiety and the mounting pressure from their dad, coach, and scouts, while Tristan desperately fights to create his own future, not as a hockey player but a musical theatre performer.Īs their season progresses and friends turn out to be enemies, Robbie finds solace in an online stranger known only as “Jimmy2416.” Between keeping Robbie’s secret and saving him from taking his life, Tristan is given the final call: sacrifice his dream for a brother he barely knows, or pursue his own path. How far is Robbie willing to go-and more importantly, how far is Tristan willing to go to help him? Summary: Even though they’re identical, Tristan isn’t close to his twin Robbie at all-until Robbie tries to kill himself.įorced to share a room to prevent Robbie from hurting himself, the brothers begin to feel the weight of each other’s lives on the ice, and off.
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