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sapphicreads 's review for:
Conventionally Yours
by Annabeth Albert
This was really soft and made me feel really soft, really good, nerd feelings. That's the best way for me to describe it. I love the characters and the relationship and the look into geek culture. I just... yeah. Loved all of that.
I also liked the diversity in the rep we saw. There were several queer characters and a non-binary character whose gender identity wasn't made into a big deal which I loved to see because we so rarely get that.
However, I really wasn't a fan of the only sapphic characters being the over bearing mothers of Alden whose main personality stemed from how they wanted to fix his anxiety and neurodiversity. It made me feel very icky. There were so many mlm characters and that's great! But it came off very weird in the end once I realized that.
In fact almost all the characters were male, except for Alden's mothers, a few mentions of sisters and the non-binary character, and I really would have appreciated seeing even one main female character. Or one that contributed to the plot in anyway.
I still really loved the characters and how Alden's anxiety was talked about but there was just something keeping it from becoming a new all time favorite.
I also liked the diversity in the rep we saw. There were several queer characters and a non-binary character whose gender identity wasn't made into a big deal which I loved to see because we so rarely get that.
However, I really wasn't a fan of the only sapphic characters being the over bearing mothers of Alden whose main personality stemed from how they wanted to fix his anxiety and neurodiversity. It made me feel very icky. There were so many mlm characters and that's great! But it came off very weird in the end once I realized that.
In fact almost all the characters were male, except for Alden's mothers, a few mentions of sisters and the non-binary character, and I really would have appreciated seeing even one main female character. Or one that contributed to the plot in anyway.
I still really loved the characters and how Alden's anxiety was talked about but there was just something keeping it from becoming a new all time favorite.