A review by cjwicker
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery

1.0

There wasn’t anything glaringly wrong, but this just wasn’t my cup of tea. I read YA a decent amount and sometimes even though I’m not a teen I find I can relate to the main characters but not this time. The miscommunication as conflict is a trope I don’t like. Also, while I love a book that talks about race, LGBT+ people, etc I feel like a lot of those things were just socketed into the plot vs just being an inherent part of who the characters were? It felt like the author had a list of points they wanted to make and pasted them in vs letting those issues arise naturally.