Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Length: 485 pages
Genre: Fiction (realistic), LGBT, YA
Rating: ★★★★★
I really, really liked this book. On my search for books with more queer representation, I (luckily) found this one. I think my favorite part of this book is that there is more than one thing going on. In a lot of other books, there's the main character, and then one central story line revolving around one other thing, and it often feels rushed. But this book took it's time, in the best way.
I was expecting one love story, followed by a trip to a conversion camp of some sort. I was pleasantly delighted that that's not what I got out of this.
There are several love interests, several important side characters, several stories linked together. We get to read about Irene, about Lindsey, about Coley, about Jamie and Bucking Horse, about Jane and Adam, about Rick, and about so much more. There were so many things going on in this story, and often times when authors try to write too much they write themselves into a corner, or just flood the story in general, but that was not the case here.
I felt like it actually reflected the life of Cameron Post (and the life of a person in general) because circumstances change, and where we are at the beginning of a story is not where we often end up by the time we're done. I appreciated that this book reflected what felt like the story of an actual person.
