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A review by rachcannoli
The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash
2.0
This book is cute and chock full of nerdy goodness. Honestly you have to be a nerd to appreciate 90% of it because it doesn’t bother explaining references, it just throws them in and if you don’t get it, oh well. It makes me regret not going to NYC Comic Con when I was younger, before all this pandemic craziness but mainly when I had the energy to run around like a kid in a candy store seeing all the awesomeness.
The story however, leaves a lot to be desired. Graham wants everything to go perfect this weekend when he finally tells his BFF Roxana how he feels, so naturally almost everything under the sun goes wrong. It’s a frustrating read because as someone who’s been in multiple unrequited love fueled relationships, this is pretty much how it goes but I felt it ended far too simplistically. I get it’s YA and they want to wrap it up really quick, but for being a major catalyst of this story I wanted more focus on that rather than Graham being jealous at this rando dude who’s certainly hot but a blip on his friend’s radar. It was nice that he met another nerd girl/relationship hopeful, but for him to see that so clearly felt forced a silly.
Idk, the book is super short as is so definitely could’ve used a lot more detail and fleshing out specifically of this main conflict and the connection between these two. It just felt rushed at The end of the day and while it had some cute moments, a lot was just based off how fun NYCCC would be rather than the actual story.
The story however, leaves a lot to be desired. Graham wants everything to go perfect this weekend when he finally tells his BFF Roxana how he feels, so naturally almost everything under the sun goes wrong. It’s a frustrating read because as someone who’s been in multiple unrequited love fueled relationships, this is pretty much how it goes but I felt it ended far too simplistically. I get it’s YA and they want to wrap it up really quick, but for being a major catalyst of this story I wanted more focus on that rather than Graham being jealous at this rando dude who’s certainly hot but a blip on his friend’s radar. It was nice that he met another nerd girl/relationship hopeful, but for him to see that so clearly felt forced a silly.
Idk, the book is super short as is so definitely could’ve used a lot more detail and fleshing out specifically of this main conflict and the connection between these two. It just felt rushed at The end of the day and while it had some cute moments, a lot was just based off how fun NYCCC would be rather than the actual story.