A simple style and a poignant story
TITLE: Autoboyography
AUTHOR: Christina Lauren
PAGES: 416
PLOT:
Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.
But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar, where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester, Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.
It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
REVIEW
The last semester of high school is going to start and Tanner has to complete his schedule. Autumn, his best friend, teases him to join The Seminar, not just a writing course, but THE writing course: students have to write a complete book in four months. Tanner decides to take the challenge. He doesn't know how much four months can change his world.
While at lesson he meets Sebastian, an ex-student and now teacher's assistant. And his smiles ruins him.
Tanner falls desperately in love with him, although he knows Sebastian is off-limits. Every guy in town is off-limits. Two years before the beninning of this story Tanner's family moved from California to Provo, Utah, a small town where almost everyone is Mormon. Back home he was out, his family and friends knew about his sexual identity and nobody had problems with it: he was Tanner and he was bisexual. It was almost like saying he had dark hair, just a matter of fact.
On the contrary, here, in Provo, it's a secret. And of course Sebastian, who is the bishop's son, is out of reach.