A review by sycokittykat
This One Time by Kelvin Young

emotional hopeful inspiring

4.0

Senior year at a new school

Ryver's father has finally retired from the military and they have moved into the father's hometown. The last thing he wanted to do was move again. He had been promised he would get his senior year with the friends he had made. 

Standing and staring at yet another new school he can't seem to gather himself to actually enter the building. As the crowd forces him in he finds himself in a near panic when a soothing voices reaches him. Meeting Jorrin has shifted his reality and now he has to figure out what to do now. 

In this little MO town in the middle of the Bible belt he is forced to face the fact that what or rather who makes his heart race won't be readily accepted. Plus his father will certainly disown him...right?

This is a coming of age story where our lead character has to accept that against all odds he is going to be a proud gay man. The story is done in a way that you feel all the anxieties and uncertainties as well as his determination. 

The school dance was freaking epic though.