Sophie Gonzales's writing never misses, and she sure knows how to write a queer romance! I really enjoyed the vibes of this one and cannot wait to dive deeper into her backlist.

If This Gets Out follows the boyband "Saturday," and two of their members, Ruben and Zach, falling in love with each other. It also shows all four boys' struggles with fame and their public appearance, the pressures of their management team, and dealing with mental health issues.

I love this book so much! Ruben and Zach felt so much like real people. I couldn't help but feel so invested in their lives and just want to hug them. Their cute moments were insanely cute. I could not get enough of them. It's crazy; I was so invested I devoured this book in two nights (which is really fast for this insanely slow reader).

But when I tell you I couldn't pick up another book for a couple of weeks because this left me broken-hearted, I am not kidding you. I was expecting a cute and fluffy rom-com, but this felt so much deeper than that. Yes, it was adorable and fun. But it also touched on so many real-life issues of the music industry. It showed the boys being overworked, closeted, dealing with substance abuse, mental health issues, and more. These are real issues that happens in the music industry, and I appreciate how ITGO brings awareness to that.

This book deserves all the stars in the world, and I could not recommend it more if I tried. But I will try. Haha. You should pick this up, especially if you like boy bands, LGBTQ+ reads, romcoms, the being famous trope, and stories that leave you feeling it could actually be true.

Love the take on the boy band friendships vs relationships and how these characters grew as individuals and how their relationship developed. It tackled some serious topics that I didn’t expect but I really liked.

Ruben and Zach have been best friends for years and members of a popular boy band. When they go on their world tour and things both between them as well as conflicts within the band escalate, they must figure out how to navigate new relationships and the toxic environment that their band management has placed them in.

I had so much fun with this book. I wasn’t expecting to get so attached to this story and these characters, but by the end of it, I was tearing up over what was happening. I’m always a fan of multiple POV books, and I really liked how we followed Ruben and Zach individually and together. John and Angel were also great characters; it was cool seeing all of the members of this band have their own growth occur even if the story was focused more Ruben and Zach.

The toxicity of the band’s management was painful for me to read about, but I can imagine that it’s also very realistic to what a lot of artists go through. It made me appreciate the ending even more because even though life isn’t perfect for everyone at the end, there is very much the excitement and hope of better things to come for the group.

Overall, this was a fun read and I’m so glad I finally picked it up! 4.5 out of 5 stars.

CW for drug abuse, homophobia, emotional abuse, drug use, alcohol, addiction.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and St Martin’s/Wednesday Books for the ARC of If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich.

Unfortunately this book just didn't do it for me. I'm a huge fan of Young Adult romance but this book almost felt like too much information was being thrown at me that had nothing to do with the main characters or their situations. It felt very drawn out when trying to explain the simplest things that could have been a couple of sentences instead of a couple of paragraphs. I do see a younger audience enjoying it more than me which is fine but I did notice a lot of details were glossed over or just not fleshed out very well that even teenagers might catch on to.

*Many thanks to Wednesday Books for the gifted copy for my honest review*

This book was a bit slow in the beginning but pace definitely picked up and was a fun read. I will say it does read like a fan fiction a bit which I personally didn’t mind. Felt like I was 14 again.

This was really cute. I'm probably not the first to say that I think I know what may have inspired the story, but I also loved it so it works for me. I enjoyed the main characters, Ruben and Zach were great and I enjoyed reading as their relationship grew. This is one I would definitely recommend to friends who I know would appreciate it.

thinly veiled one direction fanfic..........

ANYWAY i found this one hard to get through. a lot of repetitive plot points, "we can't" "let's do it" etc. overall sweet concept, but could have been 100 pages shorter.

A sweet and enjoyable MLM YA romance about a boy band! The cover is so pretty and the premise was so swoony but did't love the execution as it felt a bit slow to me. I liked it though!

We've sold a few copies of "If This Gets Out" at our shop! My 1D obsessed friends have also loved this and were inspired to read more boy band fictions. :)

i'm actually catching up on reviews so this is actually my third review that i've done. I love the story and the characters especially the struggle between both boys deciding on letting their relationship be public and seeing how it could affect their image as a band. i loved the way the media played into the story, given that all of the members of the bands are still teenagers they have to deal with figuring out who they want to be and what their goals are in life while having eyes on them the entire time. i give this book 4 stars, it's quick and very cute

Although this felt a little bit like something else I've read (though for the life of me I can't remember what it is...) I really enjoyed it! I liked the bandmates, I really loved the look at fans and fandom, and I especially appreciated that this could have veered too much into a fanfiction of a certain boyband, it never felt that way.

Cute story! I loved the behind-the-scenes of a famous boys' band and how fame will drive you insane and make you do stupid things. I liked how they address the control managers and record labels have over the artist (Britney Spears was right after all...) and how they have to try to make up a persona for the audience etc.

Now the audiobook is not great! I was so confused because it was moving from the 2 POVs we got but the narrator for me made the same exact voice i was listening and then some things did not make sense to me until I pay closer and like hyper attention. I had to relly on some aspects of each character to see which POV I was following at the moment. this was also because the 2 of them were very similar. for me i felt very close in things at the beginning than moving a bit far away when you reach further in the story but not much.

It was a fine read not amazing i think it brought nothing new to the table at this point even the side people of the scenes were just meh IDK i did not vibed and it is a bit sad because I can see a lot of people liking it but it was not for me!

Although this has been in my library for over a year now, I've been wanting to read it for a while. I really like Sophie Gonzales' novels and the premise sounds intriguing -a four person boy band where two fall in love. Sounds awesome, right?!

Now, I adored the romance between Ruben and Zach. I was surprised by how heavy some topics were and the length of this novel. I think due to the seriousness of some topics, the middle felt a bit lengthy but I loved the build up and the conclusion of this novel.

Definitely recommend a read if this sounds up your alley.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Wednesday Books for a copy of this novel. ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

This book was entirely too long. I also wish I hadn’t listened to the audiobook. It got confusing very easy.

Overall it was an okay read. I liked it enough but didn’t love it.

This was like someone's favorite Boy Band fan fic come to life and I was here for it! I loved the realistic interpretation of the pain and trials that members of boy bands, or really any famous musician, go through in order to maintain the image that their management wants them to portray.

I recommend this to anyone that loves or has ever been "obsessed" with a boy band!

YA Boy Band with M/M romance should be a great read for me but this one had a hard time holding my interest.

I usually love YA books but this one was high on the angst and that’s my least favorite part of YA books.

I think I love the coming of age stories when they are about self discovery or dystopian or saving the world. So maybe YA romances are just not my thing.

The boy band and multiple POV’s were fun and put a different spin on things at least.

Just an ok read for me.

I absolutely adored this book! It was a captivating story line with interesting, empathetic, and flawed characters. Showed the humanity of people and that everyone makes mistakes and how we respond to setbacks is what defines us, not the setbacks themselves. I have this in my classroom library!

Absolutely flew through this once I picked it up at a coworker’s very strong recommendation! Equal parts a romance and a story about trying to find yourself when everyone around you is working HARD to jam you into a mold. This is a book for anyone who loves a fun time and anyone who has ever in their life stanned a boy band.

If This Gets Out managed to be hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measures.

The varying emotions of the characters throughout the story as they tried to deal with the highs and lows that life threw at them had me absorbed and rooting for them from the very first page.

The plot itself was slightly unbelievable at moments but this didn’t pull me out of the story too much, and the two writers voices blended together wonderfully to create a fully cohesive story.