2.5 stars 

To start off I want to thank NetGalley and Bloomsbury for providing me with an e-arc for As Far As You'll Take Me in exchange for an honest review. I started reading this before the publishing date and honestly considered DNFing it more than a handful of times, but I kept pushing through and finally finished it. I do appreciate the number of own voice authors creating real-world queer stories but this wasn't one I'd personally recommend nor can I say will sit with me. 

I had a lot of issues with the storytelling, this writing style just isn't for me. I've grown out of the YA contemporary phase but I do try to get my hands on lgbtq+ reads no matter the genre. I felt that the maturity level of this story could have been higher, Marty is a graduate of high school trying to find his place in the world as an adult. In my opinion, that should have led this story to have a more mature tone but it didn't. I know it was targeted for Young Adults but it just seemed so off. 

Marty was a very irritating main character, and this book tried to tackle a lot of different issues including mental health, eating disorders, forced outing, and homophobia. As much as I love books that raise awareness of such things this book didn't do that for me, not on a positive note. I found a lot of the decisions from Marty to be very toxic and he was just very immature as I stated above. 

It's disappointing because I did have high expectations for this book and I was let down. There were some good aspects just not enough to say this was an okay read for me.