a messy, sometimes uncomfortable, portrayal of queerness and figuring yourself out.
sad to see that many of the low ratings come from this being "problematic" - when it just isn't your clean-cut, friendly-easy-read queer story. "we are totally normal" represents (some of) the horrible, messy, confusing, closed-circle-thought-trains bits and parts of figuring yourself out admist internalized homophobia.
there's a lot of conversations about broadening what type of queer stories get told and this is one of those messy queer stories that should be out there. 

the first few chapters have weird pacing, but as the author set up the scene to explore the book's themes, i think it got better