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Review: History is all you left me by Adam Silvera

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Challenges:  Diversity Bingo: Main character with an invisible disability.  This story is told from Griffin’s point of view, Griffin who has just suffered a major loss. His ex-boyfriend Theo has died, and while people think it’s tragic they also seem to think that Griffin should move on, because after all they were EX-boyfriends and Theo had found someone new. But Griffin always considered himself and Theo endgame, so the loss hurts just as much as if they were still together.  We follows Griffin’s struggles with grief and his escalating OCD, while all his relationships tangle and untangle around him. He meets Theo’s new boyfriend Jackson, who is just as crushed as Griffin, and while they at first seem to be competing in grief for Theo they soon find out that the other one is the only one who can really understand them and they become tentative friends. Meanwhile Griffin and Theo’s old friend Wade tries to help Griffin, but Griffin rejects him.  ...