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Meet Cute Diary

Emery Lee

3.31 AVERAGE

elisegmusic's review against another edition

3.0

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Meet Cute Diary is a blog where Noah has posts about made up meet-cute stories of trans people, posting them as if they’re real. When he is called out online, he decides that the best course of action is to start fake dating someone in order to bring legitimacy to the blog.

I felt the characters rather frustrating in this book. Noah is sixteen in this novel, and he really does act his age. There are a lot of immature and selfish decisions he makes, and while he does grow towards the end, it was definitely hard to watch him go through this journey when you wanted to take him in hand and give him a talking to. And Noah is not the only one making poor decisions and communicating poorly through the novel.

I read this book for the Trans Rights Read-a-Thon, and I do think it was a good look into life as a trans teenager. There is bullying, there is learning to choose new pronouns, there is misgendering.

Overall, this book teaches us that meet cutes are not the substance of relationships - there is so much more that goes on after you meet a person, and nothing will ever go how you expect. And of course, the glamorous life you post on social media is so rarely what your life will be like in real life.

figallium's review against another edition

3.75

i did not like the audiobook narration, not enough emotion/inflection in voice

bethanysallbooked's review against another edition

3.5

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My first book completed for the @transrightsreadathon and it was such a cute one!! This book follows Noah, who came out as trans and is moving from Florida to California with his family. His brother Brian goes to school in Colorado, and Noah stays with him during the summer while their parents house hunt. Noah runs the Meet Cute Diary blog on tumblr, and he has his own meet cute with Drew. Is it the start of the perfect relationship?!

This was so adorable! I really liked how all of the characters felt their ages, from the big brother Brian to Devin to Drew to Becca to Noah. There was a lot of big emotions here and I loved every single one. None of these characters were perfect. They all had things going on. There were messy friendships and loving relationships. There were sweet moments and breakups. Learning who Devin was made me emotional and watching Noah realize how he felt was so sweet. I truly enjoyed this one and I’m so glad I read it!

hmmclean's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jaelikes's review against another edition

4.0

the tumblr culture was so cringe but so accurate

theofficialzhang's review against another edition

3.0

I'll give it 3.5 stars.

The main character is a bit annoying, but grows, he learns about what relationships are. Good representation of pronouns and such. However, the plotline is a bit generic sometimes. That's my entire review, I guess.