My Best Friend's Exorcism

I was drawn to this book based on how much I love the cover and the premise got me so excited.

I am so sad that I was let down by this when I had such high hopes. It had such great potential.

However, I couldn't get past the offensive and disgusting moments that were in this book that had no reason to be featured apart from what I can assume shock value.

The “dearly but not queerly”, the mentioning of the slave auctions that apparently American high schools used to do (first of all why was this ever a thing?) and the main character saying someone thin and unwell looks “Ethiopian”.... None of these things added anything to the plot and could have been edited out altogether and I wish it was!

On top of that, the exorcism? I think I actually had to stop reading for a moment and just stare at a wall because while I understand they were trying to say it was their love for one another that helped Gretchen pull through, I think it was so cringy.

I am usually not a hater and it takes a lot for me to get to that place but I am too disappointed that this didn't end up the fantastic read that I thought it was going to be. I'm giving two stars purely because I think this had such great potential.