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I think any work of art is supposed to make you feel something, so this one gets my 4 star rating because it definitely did that. I was SO FRUSTRATED reading this book. Before I get to that though, it is well written. It's interesting and keeps you reading. I didn't find it to be the MOST "cant-put-it-down" book I've ever read, but I enjoyed it well enough. I'm a little more hesitant to give a book a 5 star rating when I've read so many great, change-your-life ones, but this is a solid novel, and enjoyable.

Now as to why I was frustrated, (Maybe spoilers? Not really?) Some of the "resolution" at the end of the book was just one character putting more expectations of the other character, without taking responsibility for their actions, and "correcting" their friend for holding them to THEIR OWN moral standards. That's infuriating. What's more infuriating is that if I were a young girl reading this book, a subscriber to Gaby and Allison's channel, and a big fan, it would influence me to think that way as well-- that instead of taking responsibility for myself and asking myself why I do things, I get to tell those concerned around me that they "need to be better" to me, by, apparently, not making me look at my reasons for why I do anything.

Now, do Gaby and Allison think this way in real life, or is this just a part of the flawed characters in their books? I don't have a clue. Do I think that an author is responsible to convey messages that provoke people to be better-- especially when the audience is young and impressionable? I don't know.

My only real conclusion is that if you're a parent buying this for your kid, read it too, so you can know how to talk to your kids about having healthy relationships with others, and that they have a responsibility as a human to know themselves and better themselves.

Hopefully you're teaching them that already.


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I Hate Everyone But You A Novel Gaby Dunn Allison Raskin Books Reviews

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Hi I’m Hellen, I’d like to take you back to a moment without bias. It was The First Time I Met Gaby. I capitalize it because, this is a story. See, she was opening a live show at a very rundown bar in LA, on a busy street corner with busted up concrete sidewalks on the outside, and worn, wood-paneling on the inside. I didn’t know she was Gaby, the Co-Author. Or Gaby, The YouTuber. I just knew that it was April. It was a Friday. And since I was there for someone else, she was just Gaby.

On stage, she caught me with her wit. She had a cutting love affair with the audience, a one-two-punch reserved for close knit friendships, or how your older brother talks to you. We were lulled into comfort then slapped in the face, lovingly. It’s like she touched our cheek first just to warn us. She spoke with the kind of mean edge that lets you know you are cared for, deeply.

In the pages, that cadence is woven into the fabric and delightfully stitched together with Allison Raskin’s self-deprecating jokes that are too real. Her honest misadventures that happen while living alongside big emotion are every mistake we’ve ever made in a relationship. She shows us her cards. And if you look, I’m sure you can find a pair in your own hand.

Together, they decidedly examined being queer, navigating mental health, and individual maturation. Tough topics for anyone—much less new authors and college freshman. They painfully rip apart the stitches they’ve sewn, while ferociously defending our right to never have to explain ourselves and our mess.

The main characters are Gen and Ava. Their story is told exclusively over texts and emails, commonly the substance of our own contemporary relationships. While they trip through their first year away from each other, you are cc’d. You are in the group chat. And I have a feeling that if you could reply all, the authors would write back.

The characters say all the wrong stuff that we we’re thinking, but never said out loud. The authors have dirt under their fingernails so you don’t have to. And even though we know Allison would recoil at the thought of this, her heart is in it and her manicure is scheduled. The hands of society can stay clean if we just read what they dug up.

I haven’t cried from a book since Charlotte’s Web circa 2001. They made me cry. They made me angry with them, angry at them. But I made up with them too. And laughed it off.

Am I biased? Absolutely. Because it was only for that one moment when I could look at this person objectively. Now I’ve read their book. And I’m on her team. I am the self-proclaimed biggest fan while shouldering for room at the top among a deep well of friends who respect her. As a team, they have chosen the underdog. Underrepresented. *Underseent*. Under the radar and in the closet. She is still just Gaby to me, but I got past the busted up sidewalk to the warmer interior.
This is one of the best YA books I've read in recent memory. Which is saying a lot, seeing as I am a huge bookworm. It doesn't read like most YA books either. Allison and Gaby managed to perfectly capture the authenticity of teenage female friendship. One of the big problems I've found with reading YA books as a 20something is that I either can't relate to the characters anymore, or the author portrays a cringe worthy caricature of what they assume teens are like now. This was not the case at all in this book. Not only was I invested in the characters, but I believed them! They felt like girls I knew, girls I might meet in class, I even saw parts of myself in each character.

Now, let's talk about one of the biggest things that I loved about this book representation. I am a bisexual woman with a mental illness. There is a huge lack of queer literature involving women, and an even bigger lack of literature with a bisexual protagonist. So seeing a protagonist like Gen figuring out her sexuality and admitting that she doesn't know what exactly she fits under is so refreshing. I didn't know how great it felt to be represented in a book until I was. Ava also struggles with a mental illness. That is something else that isn't represented positively in books. Most of the time, those stories end with a false "I'm cured!" storyline. Which is not really realistic. Instead, Ava lives with her mental illness and speaks openly about it. She is on medication. She sees a therapist. She speaks openly and honestly about her daily struggles with her best friend and Gen never once makes her feel ashamed of it.

Easily one of my favorite books of the year.
I think any work of art is supposed to make you feel something, so this one gets my 4 star rating because it definitely did that. I was SO FRUSTRATED reading this book. Before I get to that though, it is well written. It's interesting and keeps you reading. I didn't find it to be the MOST "cant-put-it-down" book I've ever read, but I enjoyed it well enough. I'm a little more hesitant to give a book a 5 star rating when I've read so many great, change-your-life ones, but this is a solid novel, and enjoyable.

Now as to why I was frustrated, (Maybe spoilers? Not really?) Some of the "resolution" at the end of the book was just one character putting more expectations of the other character, without taking responsibility for their actions, and "correcting" their friend for holding them to THEIR OWN moral standards. That's infuriating. What's more infuriating is that if I were a young girl reading this book, a subscriber to Gaby and Allison's channel, and a big fan, it would influence me to think that way as well-- that instead of taking responsibility for myself and asking myself why I do things, I get to tell those concerned around me that they "need to be better" to me, by, apparently, not making me look at my reasons for why I do anything.

Now, do Gaby and Allison think this way in real life, or is this just a part of the flawed characters in their books? I don't have a clue. Do I think that an author is responsible to convey messages that provoke people to be better-- especially when the audience is young and impressionable? I don't know.

My only real conclusion is that if you're a parent buying this for your kid, read it too, so you can know how to talk to your kids about having healthy relationships with others, and that they have a responsibility as a human to know themselves and better themselves.

Hopefully you're teaching them that already.