I felt like reading it- since I was in reading slump...A friend recommended it to me. Thank you!

It was really sweet, comforting, almost genuine and entertaining. I don't usually read comics or anything which has visual artwork, but this one was really, really cool. I did like how the author touches upon the various issues and it was...uplifting, in a lot of ways.
Often, a lot of novels I've heard of and read-especially, contemporary young adult fiction tends to revolve around the plot being quite centred around just fun romance (a lot of them with repetitive plots and quite shallow except a very handful of them - from the ones I've read), or the flip side-trauma and all that "darkness" that drowns teenagers these days, or the middle- maybe a bit of an entertaining plot - but excessive amounts of swearing, all things not-quite-exactly teenager stuff (but I'm sure all of that does occur to some extent in schools around the world). Instead of relying on all that or just cheap plot twists, this is a simple, heart-warming story with life in it.

It has this optimistic and such a hopeful tone, and the fact that characters can bear burdens and not break under them - fills me with this zeal and enthusiasm for just living and hands the power to change your fate by your own hand. It instils faith that there's always a way and also, coming to terms with self-acceptance as well. It explores real, dark issues - not only the theme of coming out - but a whole lot of other ones - I mean, a huge amount of them - like bullying, self-hate, body image issues, and the general teenager angst ( the other lot-which I kind of suffer(ed) from too ).

But, it was definitely really nice, and maybe a bit unrealistic and just exploration on the top-but maybe that's all is needed sometimes for a spark of change and igniting hope in people.
This novel was liberating, and makes me feel like I can breathe again.

Spoiler

Personally, I don't usually explore much on the topic on hand (more like I escape from the topic like it's a plague and...some of the issues- are relatable-I don't really tell anyone - like, literally, anyone), and I kind of relate to some issues faced by some characters- in some ways -Okay, I think I should stop. I feel like a lot of us are Charlies in some ways - and we all need a person like Nick either as a friend or as a partner in our lives, or there's a way - let's create an imaginary Nick in our heads