It wasn’t 100% unexpected, but it was definitely traumatizing to read it and experience it. The key turning point of the novel is when Aaron’s parents kick him out of the house and don’t even allow him to take his shoes. I felt exhausted by time I got to the end of the book. He’s so lonely and overwhelmed with life and feelings it was hard to read.
(130)Īaron’s character was by far the most engaging, but also the hardest to read. He wasn’t quite sure how the distinction worked out yet, but it felt important, and for now that was enough. There are a lot of cold shoulders and angry glares, but eventually they’re forced into working together to help rearrange music for the new all-female acapella group and before they know it they’ve realized they’re actually friends. The first half revolves around the drama when Giles realizes Aaron is at the same school. Walter has grown up a lot in the few months since we last saw him and is a great uncle type figure throughout this book and the next. We get a pretty early reference to Walter from book one when Aaron is moping around his dad’s law firm over the summer where Walter happens to be interning. Giles chose it because it had an orchestra and Aaron chose it, somewhat creepily, because he realized he was gay after their hook up and he really liked Giles, but couldn’t figure out how to talk to him. (148)Īcapella groups run the school Aaron and Giles attend. This book (and the follow up) can be summed up in pretty much one quote:Ī riff-off? Are you serious? Karen, sometimes I feel like all we’re doing is alternating between Glee and Pitch Perfect. Similar to book one, you’ve got one more experienced if jaded protagonist, Giles, who’s faced bullying and assault in high school and is dying to get out of town and his hookup Aaron, deeply closeted and dealing with overbearing parents. Whereas in Love Lessons, the sex scenes don’t start for some time, they kick off early in this one because the two protagonists hook up after they’ve graduated high school before they head off to college. I figured I may as well finish out the Love Lessons series and they were available from my local library digital download so here we are. This one was a little more of the original Heidi Cullinan I read a few years ago, but a bit more balanced.
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