On the first page, she says 'We are old-money Democrats', which was a red flag to me, not because they're democrats, IDGAF about that, but because it's bringing politics into a YA book. BUT I thought, it's the first page, the author's setting the mood. Then came the racism in chapter 4. The "Nobody can own land" talk in chapter 7. And the final straw for me was the MC and Gat chilling under the stars and he asks 'do you believe in God'. 

Nope. That's too much in only 21 pages. I tried. Some of it was cute and I liked them but I feel like the book would have been fine WITHOUT the political and racist shit. I get that Gat is supposed to be the political type, but when his friends are telling him to stop and he doesn't, we deal with enough of that IRL, it don't want to read about someone like that in a book. You can be political and respectful, which he's not.