Autoboyography by Christina LaurenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Everybody has a cause they're passionate about. The cause they would walk to the ends of the earth for. Mine is LGBTQ Mormon suicides.
I was a TBM (totally brainwashed Mormon) up until the age of 23. That's when I was introduced to liberalism. For the next 4 years I challenged myself on everything I thought I knew. Eventually I got to the place where I could no longer be a mormon and I submitted my resignation last November.
You think I'm just going to walk away from the mormon church when people are killing themselves? Hell no. But unfortunately I used up what little voice I have when I submitted my resignation.
You know what I'm here to talk about a book, and while I could go on and on about the mormon church I won't. (But feel free to ask!)
Despite what I said at the opening there is no suicide. But this book touches on what really drives LGBTQ Mormons to think that is their only way out.
I'm asexual and only recently discovered that. Sometime when I was a teen I realized I was attracted to women the same way I was attracted to men (aesthetically). This terrified me. If I was terrified at the possibility of being gay, I can't imagine what actually being gay would be like.
Mormonism was portrayed pretty actually. Though I'll admit I skipped the parts explaining bits of mormon culture/doctrine because I know it pretty well. I was trying to figure out if the author is exmormon or nevermo (never been a mormon) and there were some inconsistencies that made me believe she's nevermo, and I was right.
Truthfully I did find some parts boring, mostly the youth activities. Are they really that boring? I had fun with them when I was a teen.
They stare at the strip mall sign, with the three largest businesses advertised in bold letters: Deseret Book. Emergency Essentials. Avenia Bridal.
"This all very LDS," she agrees.
Winner Shannon's Choice Awards 2018:
Best Book
Best YA
Read Before You Die Award
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