MM Reviews: Half A World Away

Title: Half A World Away
Author: AHLICE
Type: Original Fiction
Rating: R

If you ask me, he'll always be that kid back in middle school screaming for attention. If you ask me, he'll never be able to take care of himself alone, ripped from this world, in Stanford.

Scout and Ruben have always been. Scout doesn't know exactly what they are now though. And now their final summer before college any words that he could use to define them become even blurrier.

With the boys going in different directions come fall, Scout notices their relationship starts to change and he can't decide whether the problem is them being too close, or being too far apart, and he worries what will happen to Ruben when he's not around.

Ruben is a Do-er and Scout is an Observer. What are they without each other? What even are they with each other?

In an increasingly dwindling amount of time, they'll be forced to find out.

Half A World Away so far is a story that speaks to everyone because we all have that one friend we thought would be around forever, or at least through all the important things. Yet as you grow up and start to change, you change in different ways. Just like how AHLICE so beautifully and subtly demonstrates, it's scary and confusing to think about being who you are without someone you thought was a part of you. It's even scarier to let them go when you aren't positive they'll be alright.

Half A World Away has the incredible potential or a pitch perfect coming of age with the ability to make anyone nostalgic.

Special thanks to Airi. and everybody dies; for editing!