Title: The Before Now and After Then

Author: Peter Monn

Pages: 304

Publlication Date: July 28, 2014
Publisher: Pen Name Publishing
Rating: 3/5 

I started reading this book and I was so stoked for it. I was expecting something cool. That is because it's quite difficult to write a book revolving around gay people that's not offensive, not too opinionated and is handled well. I like reading lgbt books because there aren't much of it in the world. 

When I reached about 30% of the book, you can ask my sister how much I was having the gay feels. Rusty and Danny were really cute! 

But, there was a twist of mindset when I was somewhere in the middle of the story. I got a bit bored. I still read it, but not like I still had the feels. Majority of the content of the book was how Rusty and Danny spent one whole week together so happy and full of butterflies. They literally just met, and they already knew that they liked each other and after again a few days, they loved each other. I'm not a fan of immediate relationships. I don't believe in those, even though both characters believed that time cannot measure love. 

I was kind of dissapointed because their relationship could have been more on getting to know each other first before anything. Another thing was that I was already expecting what was going to happen, in almost all parts of the book. There was nothing spectacular about the ending as well, but it's a great way to end the book. I was happy that it ended that way. 

The beginning and ending was great, and the way Danny thinks was a bit relatable too. I just think that it could've been more exciting, and less boring in the middle. Nonetheless, I did not regret reading this book. I was still glad that I read it. This book is worth checking out if you want to read something light and cute.

This week's topic is our favorite books in a particular genre. We will be the ones choosing what genre we'll use in this post. There were a lot of genres that we have considered but for this post, we decided to choose LGBT YA and Anthologies, just because we think both are genres that people rarely read - at least we hope this isn't true! :)

    

How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan

Geektastic: Stories From The Nerd Herd by John Green

Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black

The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves by Various Artists, Edited by Sarah Moon

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