All Boys Aren't Blue is such a heartfelt book! It's described as a young adult memoir cum manifesto because of how the writer uses their own experience as growing up as a queer black child in New Jersey to provide positive affirmations for the queer youth of today.

Johnson writes with an openness that comes from a place of vulnerability and honesty. I loved the wholesome way in which he empahises the importance of family, especially if you're so lucky as to have that support system of accepting people around you, which they are.

I would've loved this book even more if it quoted some of the sources it, meaning that I don't have to dig them out myself. Also, the final chapter which shares its name with the title of the book felt far too rushed for me. Johnson explains why they are not 'blue' and what that mentality signifies to them but that discussion took up all of two paragraphs and lacked a certain robustness.

All in all, I thought this was a far-reaching memoir and I'm excited to hear that there are talks of a TV-adaptation coming out soon!