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A review by themermaddie
Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum, Sara Waxelbaum
5.0
SO CUTE!! incredibly adorable let's-make-a-deal trope, featuring baby gay margo zimmerman and bisexual slut abbie sotkoloff being very sweet and angsty about one another.
equal parts heart-warming and laugh-out-loud funny, i Loved this book. margo's awkward attempts at using internet gay slang had me shriveling up inside with secondhand embarrassment, god what a hell of a way to start a book. i loved margo as a character; she's always been unapologetically herself and now that she's realised that she's a lesbian, she needs to learn how to be unapologetically gay too. i also loved that she's openly autistic, and it's never shown as something wrong with her, it's just the way she is and the way she functions.
margo and abbie's dual povs are so distinct and wonderful to read, you get to understand the ways they misunderstand each other but never in a way that feels like it's forced miscommunication (my least favourite trope). through abbie's "queer 101" lessons, there's also genuinely good discussion about queer culture, identity politics, and sex education! abbie also deals with biphobia from her best friend (who is a lesbian) which i thought handled "friendly fire" biphobia well.
but yeah basically this book is soft and sweet and informative and also angsty as sapphics tend to be! this is the sapphic ya book i YEARNED for as a teenager. i love Margo Zimmerman Gets The Girl <3
equal parts heart-warming and laugh-out-loud funny, i Loved this book. margo's awkward attempts at using internet gay slang had me shriveling up inside with secondhand embarrassment, god what a hell of a way to start a book. i loved margo as a character; she's always been unapologetically herself and now that she's realised that she's a lesbian, she needs to learn how to be unapologetically gay too. i also loved that she's openly autistic, and it's never shown as something wrong with her, it's just the way she is and the way she functions.
margo and abbie's dual povs are so distinct and wonderful to read, you get to understand the ways they misunderstand each other but never in a way that feels like it's forced miscommunication (my least favourite trope). through abbie's "queer 101" lessons, there's also genuinely good discussion about queer culture, identity politics, and sex education! abbie also deals with biphobia from her best friend (who is a lesbian) which i thought handled "friendly fire" biphobia well.
but yeah basically this book is soft and sweet and informative and also angsty as sapphics tend to be! this is the sapphic ya book i YEARNED for as a teenager. i love Margo Zimmerman Gets The Girl <3