Boys of Alabama

If you like queer pining, coming of age YA romance novels, and a dollop of the paranormal, you'll like Boys of Alabama. I zoomed through this book, as I'd consider those parameters for my comfort readings, and although the dialog is a little too on the nose at times, the meat of this book is Hudson's mastery of prose. In the way they describe worlds colliding for Max, his experience moving to Alabama from Germany, we see mundanity through a beautiful lens. The end left me wanting in a less exciting way, I felt as though the author stopped mid thought, and it still frustrates me. My assumption is usually that there is a meaningful intention for an author to end a novel in such a way, but I keep thinking that in this case it detracted from the story more than it lifted. Despite this, I highly recommend this lovely slice of southern-gothic Americana. It is a lush world well-peopled.