If you don’t, he will shoot fantastic rainbows out of his hands to put you in your rightful place. Basically, he will do anything for anyone so long as they treat him with respect. He is strong and sassy with a kind of tough outer shell, but also caring and a little squishy in the middle. I feel like, however, he endures it all to save those around him who haven’t yet told their loved ones about their orientation. He has his issues and definitely cops flak from so many people about his sexuality.

The main character is a teenager named Kane who was, in his own words, outed at a young age. Now I spoke before about the various characters initially. Honestly it is comparable to none that I have previously read. Throw in some teenage angst, a little bit of a Carry On feel, and a buttload of glitter and you kind of have Reverie. But it’s also like if Miss Peregrine had a baby with an episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race (both the presence of queens and the infinite supply of shady entertainment it provides). So, the synopsis describes it as Inception mixed with The Magicians which I sort of agree. This one is flamboyant, and sparkle covered with a touch of sarcasm and endless shade.

After this chance encounter however, everything goes to shit. She is coiffed and eloquent, inserting herself into Kane’s life so as to attempt to uncover what he has forgotten, while also kind of providing a role model for him in his currently confused state. She will sass you into submission if you think there is anything wrong with that. This is where Kane meets Dr Poesy, a lovely and poised psychiatrist who just happens to be a man in mascara. After a while of being there, a dark ‘thing’ appears in the nearby mill, they go to investigate and eventually get arrested.

Sibling sarcasm ensues and everyone annunciates with jazz hands, while not so subtly throwing shade at everything. Reverie starts off with Kane, a gay teenager, and his sister Sophia attending a crime scene because Kane lost his memory after stealing and crashing his father’s car into a building and then a creek. Okay, Reverie was frankly my most anticipated novel of this year except for maybe Darkdawn by the King of Stab himself, Jay Kristoff.

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