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lowehillding 's review for:
The Upside of Unrequited
by Becky Albertalli
On one hand, this book is very diverse.The lgbtq+ characters, the people of colour representation and the non normative body types represented in this novel made it better than the average cheesy 'shy girl who is about average falls in love with an unlikely guy'-trope type of books.
This is due to how natural it felt in this story, someone just happened to be trans (which I feel like never happens, it always has to be a huge deal and followed up with a super tragic backstory on why they are this way🙃), even the minor characters.
It also touched on topics related to the diverse cast of characters, like fatphobia, racism and homophobia, which felt Å•eal and an important part of the everyday lives of these people.
The story however, escpically the very love story, was not escpically inventive... It litterally reminded me of something I wrote when I was twelwe, it even had several main plotpoints in common, and I didn't know the first thing about writing at that time. Therefore I believe it would have appealed a great deal more to me had I been younger. So if you're in your mid-teens I certainly would recommend this to you as a story about growing up.
This is due to how natural it felt in this story, someone just happened to be trans (which I feel like never happens, it always has to be a huge deal and followed up with a super tragic backstory on why they are this way🙃), even the minor characters.
It also touched on topics related to the diverse cast of characters, like fatphobia, racism and homophobia, which felt Å•eal and an important part of the everyday lives of these people.
The story however, escpically the very love story, was not escpically inventive... It litterally reminded me of something I wrote when I was twelwe, it even had several main plotpoints in common, and I didn't know the first thing about writing at that time. Therefore I believe it would have appealed a great deal more to me had I been younger. So if you're in your mid-teens I certainly would recommend this to you as a story about growing up.