

And it is that, but it’s also so much more. From the cover and synopsis, you’d think this is a fun queer rom-com about ex-lovers who find themselves fighting for the same homecoming king crown after one of them transitions over the summer. Really, May the Best Man Win was nothing like what I expected and dare I say, I might even love it more because of that fact. It’s books like these that make me so incredibly thankful for the #ReadWithPride series because I kind of want to stand on a skyscraper somewhere and throw copies of this book at people down below, urging them to read it (or be pummelled by it which, incidentally, was what happened to my feelings while reading this). “Our story is supposed to be about suffering,” I tell the GSA.

“ Because the world values our lies over our truths, our silence over our voices, our deaths over our lives.
