Opposites do attract. But similars stay together. Idk why I stopped reading this trilogy in Summer but I'm really happy and proud that I stuck with it right through the very end. Well first of all this is one of the best books from the trilogy!! I love how so many things had happened and not just one or two and it did just focus on Jason this time, thank God.DISCUSSION:* this is a fast read just like the other books in the trilogy so why not give it a shot?* i definitely fell in love with every

This was a disappointment on several levels. I didn't feel it worked well as a road trip tale because the actual traveling parts of the story are thrown away - so much of it just becomes "they get up, they drive, they stop somewhere for the night". Very occasionally the locale that the boys are driving to has some bearing on the story, but most of the time the travelling just becomes something that has to be inserted on the way to the next plot point. It's also not great as the concluding part o...

I've learned a lot from this book. Mainly that There musn't exist hatred toward GLBT people.They surely have feelings that Must be respected.They go through an eternal Hell to be more unsulted. we are not sick, that's just how we are born. I'm Bisexual. And so I do know the pain of such circumstances, the bullying, the names.(in my scenario hadn't been in those stages) But i've heard others talk about "US" with such disgust, and hate, with humiliation. And just like Jason, most of the time i sai...

I’m exhausted What a road trip. I could relate to Jason the most as he dealt with annoying Nelson. But by the end, like Jason, I’ll miss getting bothered by Nelson. Great characters and the writing kept me turning the pages to see how this disaster ends. 3.75 for WWJD

What a wonderful way to end this trilogy! Alex Sanchez created three complex and interesting young gay men (Jason, Kyle, & Nelson) in his first novel "Rainbow Boys." Over the first two novels, the boys confronted serious issues about coming out in high school to parents, coaches, and teammates; creating a Gay-Straight Alliance; dealing with HIV; making a relationship work; and figuring out how to navigate the world as a gay teenager. All of these were issues not normally dealt with in young adul...

1 1/2 starsI don’t want to rain on anybody’s parade but there were so many things that I didn’t like about this book that despite really trying to like it, I couldn’t give it more than 1 1/2 stars:For starters, the whole premise of the book is so contrived that it’s laughable. A road trip, after high school graduation and before college, across the country, to California. Nah!Three high school graduates and one of them doesn’t realize that leaving money in the glove compartment of their vehicle

I felt delighted and depressed at the same time after I finished the last book of the series. Feeling delighted because the series is very encouraging and gives me a lot of unexpected ideas to use whenever I have to support and defend my gay friends and my godbrother; feeling sad because in the last 5 days, this series has been my friend and kept me active. I feel like I were also in the book witnessing the whole story in order to tell the world that every human live is worth living and it shoul...

Okay so... I have cried reading the books in this triology. I have recognised myself and seen my own story in it and i have a huge crush on Kyle. I wish i have known about the books earlier.

These boys are idiotic goons but they're my idiotic goons. I loved getting to reread this trilogy so many years later. It gave me nostalgia for riffling through the shelves of libraries for books labeled 'older teens' and 'LGBT' (Anyone else remember LGBT before it had the 'Q?') and the kind librarians who shoved books into my hands. It also reminded me of why I love YA so much. In so many ways, this book is way ahead of its time (early 2000s, the years of our lord and savior, David Levithan). B...

An enjoyable conclusion to the Rainbow Trilogy, in which our three heroes go on a cross-country road trip to California, so that Jason can speak at a new high school for gay teens. The book is fun and well-written and a bit more adult than the previous two (characters actually have sex), though of course it doesn't contain anything explicit. But I had some issues with it:1. It continues the preachy "Good boys don't have sex" attitude from the first two novels, though now that the boys are out of...

Sanchez ends the “Rainbow” –realistic fiction- trilogy with Rainbow Road. The story comes full circle. Jason Garrillo, Kyle Meeks and Nelson Glassman – the main characters- have graduated from high school entering a summer, in Virginia, full of tedious responsibilities until Jason is asked to speak at a non-traditional high school graduation ceremony in Los Angeles, California. Since Jason came out about his sexuality, his full scholarship to an Ivy League school had been taken away. Kyle, Jason...

Roadtrips, in reality, are good times, bad times, and a whole lotta dull times. There is no better birthplace for a private joke than a road trip, and no better place to start hating someone's guts. Then there are fictional roadtrips, such as this one, which takes every roadtrip story ever heard and makes it happen to these three boys. Lost wallet? Cell phone quits working? Homophobic-fueled road rage? Car trouble in the middle of nowhere? Quadruple check, and more! It's tempting to make a road

The Rainbow Trilogy is simply an accurate account of being a Gay teen in the Noughties. Three young, Gay males deal with the common issues of coming out and surviving: Nelson, flamboyant and out since grade school; Kyle his best friend, shy, smart and out only to Nelson as the series begins; and Jason a closeted, hot jock whose forced to become a "role model" as he becomes Kyle's boyfriend. The three friends are real, flawed and help each other deal with their particular issues.Reading these as

This is a story about 3 homosexual friends who have just graduated college. This story is told in 3 perspectives, kyle, nelson, and jason. Jason and kyle are boyfriends but Jason lost his basketball scholarship and has been invite to speak at a gay and lesbien high school that has just opened. He tells kyle about it and kyle is very happy to join his boyfriend, inviting nelson along who ahs not found his love yet and worries about being the third wheel. This was a more intresting story about the...

This was a cute book and a cute series, though the series is certainly a product of its time. The books in this trilogy were published in 2001, 2003, and 2005. I read the first book in this series when I came out ten years ago, and I had a sudden urge to come back to the series and read all three books in audio. I really enjoyed them, especially this final book for its exploration of themes outside the realm of homonormativity and traditional gender expectations.

I really enjoyed this last book in the series. These books are wonderful coming-of-age novels for all teenagers. A must read, up front, and honest trio of books for any teenager who is curious or questioning their sexuality.

When I read this series back in 2009/10ish, I think it was a summary of a lot of hope and encouragement I needed back then, but both The world, and myself have come a long way since then. I found myself not liking the characters like I remember them, and this last book especially rubbed me the wrong way. See earlier this year, 2021, I purchased Sanchez’s new middle reader book called “The Greatest Superstar,” and because I had such fond memories of reading the God Box and Rainbow boys years ago,...

Kyle, his bisexual basketball player boyfriend Jason and his outrageous best friend Nelson embark on a road trip from suburban Washington D.C. to Los Angeles the summer after high school graduation when Jason is invited to give a speech at a private school following his own coming out. Over the course of their trip they’ll lose phones and money, get in many a squabble, have fun and unexpected adventures and be introduced to new people, straight, gay, lesbian and transgender, who come to expand t...

In the final book of the trilogy Rainbow Road is an ending tale of Nelson, Kyle, and Jason. This book focused more than just on Jason's adventures. While it is the main figure of seeing Jason getting to the LGBT high school in order to give a speech for the school, we see more of Nelson's quest to find love like seen with Kyle and Jason. We see the strain and love of friendship and love when it comes to living close and continuous space with one another.I thought it was an interesting tale. Felt...

About halfway through the book I was enjoying the read but in the back of my mind I was thinking not as good as the other two but theending especially Jasons speech bought tears to my eyes and made me think how much thigs have changed and yet on the other hand how little things have changed. Anyone daring to be different especially during adolescene late teens early 20's are still often called names and put down. I share with Nelson the selecting for teams it was an extremely hurtful process to

Throughout this entire trilogy I've been banging my head against the wall in frustration at the fact that these three idiots are utterly incapable of being together with each other at the same time, and that came to a head in this book when they weren't able to get away from each other.I'm not gonna lie, I was terrifyingly close to the end of this book and still thinking that all three of them were gonna go their separate ways and never see each other again.But…it all worked out. I don't know ho...

Having read the first two volumes, I wanted to finish the "Rainbow High" trilogy. "Rainbow Road" is full of predictable tropes. Kyle, Nelson, and Jason, the three protagonists, go on a cross-country road trip. Over the course of the trip many predictable events occur: tension and arguments between each member of the trio, foolish mistakes by all three, straining credulity plot points such as their stay at a hippie-type compound and an encounter with an older gay couple. That said, by this time t...

i really like the rainbow boys trilogy, but this one was my least favourite out of the 3. one thing i noticed which really bothered me was that not once throughout the entire series did jason say "i love you" to kyle first. he said it back to kyle when kyle said it to him, but he was never the one to say it first. it may seem like a small detail but i thought it would have been a really good sign of character development for him to say it first, in contrast to how scared avoiding of his sexualit...

I always like reading novels that revolve around LGBTQIA+ characters and I especially love when they are treated fairly and represented well. This story is not an extraordinary one but the characters are very memorable. The 3 young gay men are on a road trip that helps them come to terms with their own identity. It also teaches them how to navigate close personal relationships while preparing for a lifetime of change and uncertainty. At the beginning of the novel you'll have a favourite but by t...

First, can I just say that the boys on the cover do not reflect the characters' physical attributes? Anyway this was one of the books I would only read on my phone when I was just waiting around, so I did not finish this fast, but I enjoyed it a lot! There were times I got irritated at the characters as they were very stereotypical, but how they acted during the whole road trip made sense. My favorite among the three is Nelson and I like how the story ended for him, but I think there could have

This is the least well written one in the series. It felt like the last episode of Queer as Folk; I could tell the author was feeing pressure to talk about transgender and Black issues, and it all just came off very unresearched and clunky. I’d have been much happier if he stuck to what he knew, which was young gay teen drama, which is the stuff that works here.Otherwise, viewing the world through the uncritical eye of these protagonists gives queer kids a poor way of speak about trans issues an...

As with the previous two, this book is what it is. It's dated, and there's some questionable content (but that's mostly probably because people weren't as educated as they could have been on some aspects of being LGBTQ+). There were also increasing editorial issues throughout the book.I'm glad I read them, but I'm also glad the story ended with the third book. Anything more would have definitely been overkill.

The first book was amazing, great, and excellent. I felt as though I need to move on. The second book was ok, but I still moved on to the last book. I felt as though the characters didn't develop. Jason and Kyle relationship showed little growth. Nelson was a very problematic character and was often times reasons that I would almost did not finish this book. I also felt like the book didn't go anywaher but reintroduce problems that were in the first and second book.

The final part of The Rainbow Boys trilogy, Rainbow Road, was the least successful entry to me. After Jason, Kyle and Nelson, graduate from high school, they embark on a road trip that will change their lives forever. My qualms with this book are the forced conflict between Kyle and Jason, also with the couple and Nelson, who feels like a third wheel after his own breakup. The only part of the book I loved was when the trio go to the faerie sanctuary.

The hyper focus on HIV from the 2nd book is nonexistent in the 3rd and final volume of the Rainbow Boys series. It seems a little odd, since it was such a major theme of the second book; however, once so got past that aspect I was able to enjoy the last book for what it is. Circumstances were a little too perfect and the characters have become somewhat flat, but there are still some good nuggets to take from the story.