After having time to reflect, I've decided to lower my rating on History Is All You Left Me and after having that time to reflect I realised that some of the things I thought I liked was actually me just letting Adam get away with some serious bullshit because we don't have many own-voices LGBT authors.

The writing of the novel is well done, I liked the past and present storyline that is created. Adam really details the life Griffin had when him and Theo first got together, it was just a general cute story. However, the pacing was so slow. I don't know if it was intentional but it shouldn't taken someone a few days to read a book this short, especially a Contemporary. The one thing that I can praise Adam for was the representation of Griffin suffering with OCD, it was refreshing to see it not being generalised and I did feel for Griffin, because OCD isn't fully understood and can alter someone's reality so much, however, aside from the OCD, Griffin was an asshole. He wasn't a likable character. He was selfish, he cared for no one but himself, causing himself to really toy with people's emotions. I can understand that people may say that he's just human and we all make mistakes but you can't blame grief on being rude to the people who love you.

I was really hoping to see healthy relationships portrayed in the novel, especially as people had claimed it was one of the best LGBT YA books they have read, I just didn't agree with them. The relationships are toxic and certainly not healthy for anyone, let alone someone grieving. The wat Griffin used one of his friends who admitted he had feelings for him was so disgusting and low on so many forms and then the situation isn't dealt with in a manner that could be concluded. There's no progress in the book; Griffin started out as a selfish person and ends as that same person.

Overall, I was just left with a bad taste in my mouth and I'm not sure I'll read another Adam Silvera book.