If you just see "Boy band" or "Fake relationship" and stop reading the blurb to borrow the book like I did (lol) you will assume this is a fluffy book. It is NOT a fluffy book.

It is a very thoughtful book, like Khorram's previous works.

The protagonist is a white gay boy in a boy band struggling with both his privilege and tokenism.

the problem being: He's so far up his own ass he's forgetting everyone else in his band may be straight, but they all deal with racist crap.

Basically this story is one of "I'm alone, no one understands me" and people going "Well actually, I can kind of understand that, but from a different angle" and "NO! I said NO ONE understands me!"

If you can tolerate the self-centered troubles of the protagonist (and I want to be clear: he has extremely valid problems, and he is doing the best he can at the time to deal with them) you should read this book. I think it could be a good way for young people to recognize the intersections of privilege.