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Somebody Told Me
by Mia Siegert
3 stars
note: Aleks/Alexis is bigender and uses both she/her and he/him pronouns at different points throughout the story, but for the clarity of this review I'll refer to him as Aleks and he/him.
I was really excited for this one because I thought it had the potential to become one of my favorite reads of the year. I really, really wanted to like this one, especially because it has a bigender MC (!!) and it sounded like it dealt with themes of religion and queerness and how the two intersected.
Unfortunately, though, this one fell really flat for me. While I appreciated what it was trying to do, I just don't think it really got there?? With anything to be honest. The ending was my favorite part of the whole thing to be honest, and even that felt disjointed, so I'm just :((
I think Aleks was really underdeveloped as the main character?? I just couldn't connect to him at all because I didn't know anything about him. I honestly couldn't tell you at all what his personality was like?? And I wanted to like him, I really did, but when it came down to it, I just didn't find there was anything there for me to like or hate or care about at all. Although, I will say that I did really appreciate Aleks' relationship with his mom that was really well-written!! More supportive parents in fiction pls!! I will say that I would have liked to hear more about his cosplay because that was really glossed over.
I will say that I did really like what we saw of the relationships that Aleks develops over the course of the book, but I do feel like they were very underdeveloped and they should have been given a lot more page time than they were. That said, I did think the romance (? if you can call it that) came out of nowhere and I felt absolutely zero chemistry between Aleks and the love interest, so that's also really fun!! And by fun, I mean very disappointing because I went into this book asking to feel something and I felt,,, nothing.
I also thought the inciting incident that started the plot was?? questionable and also the plot involved a lot of stalking which just made me uncomfortable. Also, the pacing of the plot was all over the place, which left me feeling really bored in some places and barely able to catch my breath in others. Though, I did really appreciate the critique and examination of the Catholic church without making it seem like the author was attacking the entire religion. I thought the exploration of faith and organized religion and the things it condones in the name of God was really interesting and I really appreciated having it there, although I do wish it had gone into more detail.
Overall, I think this is a book that was really filled to the brim with potential, but unfortunately just fell really flat for me personally. That said, I do still encourage you to pick it up if you think you might enjoy it because my opinion is one of many and there are plenty of people who have enjoyed this book!
note: Aleks/Alexis is bigender and uses both she/her and he/him pronouns at different points throughout the story, but for the clarity of this review I'll refer to him as Aleks and he/him.
I was really excited for this one because I thought it had the potential to become one of my favorite reads of the year. I really, really wanted to like this one, especially because it has a bigender MC (!!) and it sounded like it dealt with themes of religion and queerness and how the two intersected.
Unfortunately, though, this one fell really flat for me. While I appreciated what it was trying to do, I just don't think it really got there?? With anything to be honest. The ending was my favorite part of the whole thing to be honest, and even that felt disjointed, so I'm just :((
I think Aleks was really underdeveloped as the main character?? I just couldn't connect to him at all because I didn't know anything about him. I honestly couldn't tell you at all what his personality was like?? And I wanted to like him, I really did, but when it came down to it, I just didn't find there was anything there for me to like or hate or care about at all. Although, I will say that I did really appreciate Aleks' relationship with his mom that was really well-written!! More supportive parents in fiction pls!! I will say that I would have liked to hear more about his cosplay because that was really glossed over.
I will say that I did really like what we saw of the relationships that Aleks develops over the course of the book, but I do feel like they were very underdeveloped and they should have been given a lot more page time than they were. That said, I did think the romance (? if you can call it that) came out of nowhere and I felt absolutely zero chemistry between Aleks and the love interest, so that's also really fun!! And by fun, I mean very disappointing because I went into this book asking to feel something and I felt,,, nothing.
I also thought the inciting incident that started the plot was?? questionable and also the plot involved a lot of stalking which just made me uncomfortable. Also, the pacing of the plot was all over the place, which left me feeling really bored in some places and barely able to catch my breath in others. Though, I did really appreciate the critique and examination of the Catholic church without making it seem like the author was attacking the entire religion. I thought the exploration of faith and organized religion and the things it condones in the name of God was really interesting and I really appreciated having it there, although I do wish it had gone into more detail.
Overall, I think this is a book that was really filled to the brim with potential, but unfortunately just fell really flat for me personally. That said, I do still encourage you to pick it up if you think you might enjoy it because my opinion is one of many and there are plenty of people who have enjoyed this book!