Bold, courageous, tender, heartfelt, and fucking messy. It's the perfect game about what it feels like to be a teenager, and it doesn't pull punches. Its strong stances on gender, queerness, and sex were ahead of their time when Monsterhearts 2 was published, and they're still timely and outperforming most of the field today.

The germ of the token economy of BoB can be seen in Strings, and the playbooks are all fantastically evocative of different elements of teenage experience. I am fortunate to have read this game, even more fortunate to have played it, and I enthusiastically recommend it to everyone.