by Nick Burd
This is another Y/A novel that sets the standard of a boring and trite approach to the genre and one that follows the same trope of gay youth need to suffer to evolve. The book begins with Dade, a 17 year old closeted guy scrawling a middle school-esque Name + obsession on the inside of a bathroom s...
The Vast Fields of Ordinary isn't really a terrible book. I just feel so emotionless after reading it. I just don't care. It was easy enough to get through. At first it was kinda boring but things picked up once Dade met his friend Lucy. Something about the writing was nice and Dade was a fairly lik...
All the feels. This was a great plot, great characterization, and really relateable. One of my fave novels so far this year.
2.5 stars rounded up.So. The Vast Fields of Ordinary. Indeed. Because there wasn't anything really extraordinary about this book.Someone should probably rewrite the blurb. I kept expecting "tragedy to shutter the dreamy curtain of summer," but unless you count the last chapter—that textbook example ...
The plot of this story is similar to other books about gay teens but there were so many twists and surprises that set this book apart from the rest. The best character had to be Alex Kincaid himself! He was mysterious, loved sex, did drugs, and knew how to party. What I learned from this book was th...
3.5 starsI have a hard time rating this one because nothing really happens besides some mild angst on Dade's part and a brief scene at the end of the book. I also hated the ending but after I got into the story, I didn't really want to stop reading it. I loved the characters. Well most of them. Dade...
I read this one so long ago, I can't even remember what it was about, other than a gay teenager. There's a romance, which I think I liked, but I don't think it worked out, and I'm all over the happy endings, you know. I remember liking it a lot...hm, that's all I've got.
A sweet but also painful coming of age story about a young gay kid in Iowa.
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