After being recommended this book approximately 500,000 times, I decided it was high time I finally read it! And I am so, so glad that I finally took the plunge: I am in absolute love with this book and its characters! 
 Simon Spier, is struggling with his closeted sexuality and secret online boyfriend, as well as the myriad of other trials and tribulations that come with the territory of being a teenage high-school student. When a classmate discovers his covert secret, life as Simon knows it suddenly becomes whole lot harder to navigate. 
 Each and every character displayed a uniqueness of personality and a rawness of emotion, that endorsed their age, and completely stole my heart. They felt relatable authentic and palpable, as did their individual dissensions and disparities. Simon, in particular, proved to be a little bae! It would have been so easy to portray him, and his story, in a stereotypical and unoriginal way, but both felt fresh and substantive. 
 This is the sweetest and most heart-warming of contemporary stories that I adored with every fibre of my being. All of the feels and all of the stars!