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I Think I Love You
by Auriane Desombre
This is a short and sweet romantic comedy featuring some lovely wlw rep. It is pretty much a queer and modern representation of Much Ado About Nothing complete with rivals-turned-lovers, manipulative friends, a dramatic antagonist, and cheesy professions of one’s love. My expectations weren’t the highest given that this is a YA novel and my experience with them seems to be hit-and-miss. This one was decent. By the second half of the book, the character’s over-the-top teenage pettiness and drama, which are frequent features in YA novels, had calmed down somewhat and I was able to enjoy the rest of the story. I appreciated the short length, regardless. This gets a 3 from me.
Everyone in Emma and Sophia’s friend group(s) was SUPER okay with their friends’ queerness which is amazing. Their families were very accepting too. It was very normalized which is great but I also found it a bit odd when there really wasn’t any other queer people mentioned in the book. The plotline in the book spoke of the girls’ rivalry towards each other being a result of them being the only out students at their school and the assumption that they would get together because of this. It is pretty annoying when other stories do this and just pair off every available man and woman at the end just because they are there and still single. Nevertheless, they DID end up being together anyway…well I guess that’s just a rom-com for you.
I was thankful for the quick read because the characters were a bit hard to take for an extended period. Emma was petty, Sophia was pretentious, and both were just outright mean and stubborn. Even when their banter gained a teasing tone their words were STILL really mean. How can they throw around the word love when they are continually throwing insults and using their insecurities against each other? Then they both concluded that all that time hating each other was a cover for actually being in love with each other…ugh. I think the whole “he pulls your pigtails because he likes you” thing is crap. No, he pulls your pigtails because he is an immature prat. Don’t settle for immaturity, it isn’t cute!
So both Emma and Sophia started being decent to each other because they thought the other was in love with them. What is with this friend group throwing that word around? Yes, I guess they could have a crush but I hardly believe that Emma and Sophia could be secretly in love with each other when they have only ever fought. Earlier, Tom and Kate were set up because they were already in love too. Just ridiculous. They are in high school and hadn’t even been together yet! Their friend group is just so dramatic and really in each other’s business. Like why are they so invested in each other’s love lives and have to manipulate everything? People don’t need a rom-com forced on them.
This was a quick and decent read. I liked how it acknowledged its likeness to Much Ado About Nothing by mentioning Shakespeare’s plays near the end and also its additional storylines of Emma wanting more bi representation in movies and Sophia’s relationship with her mom. The characters WERE quite angsty and a bit hard to handle but that is expected given the YA genre. As an adult, I pick up YA fiction for cute, easy-to-read stories to contrast heavier themes and longer narratives within other books and this novel fit that description well.
Everyone in Emma and Sophia’s friend group(s) was SUPER okay with their friends’ queerness which is amazing. Their families were very accepting too. It was very normalized which is great but I also found it a bit odd when there really wasn’t any other queer people mentioned in the book. The plotline in the book spoke of the girls’ rivalry towards each other being a result of them being the only out students at their school and the assumption that they would get together because of this. It is pretty annoying when other stories do this and just pair off every available man and woman at the end just because they are there and still single. Nevertheless, they DID end up being together anyway…well I guess that’s just a rom-com for you.
I was thankful for the quick read because the characters were a bit hard to take for an extended period. Emma was petty, Sophia was pretentious, and both were just outright mean and stubborn. Even when their banter gained a teasing tone their words were STILL really mean. How can they throw around the word love when they are continually throwing insults and using their insecurities against each other? Then they both concluded that all that time hating each other was a cover for actually being in love with each other…ugh. I think the whole “he pulls your pigtails because he likes you” thing is crap. No, he pulls your pigtails because he is an immature prat. Don’t settle for immaturity, it isn’t cute!
So both Emma and Sophia started being decent to each other because they thought the other was in love with them. What is with this friend group throwing that word around? Yes, I guess they could have a crush but I hardly believe that Emma and Sophia could be secretly in love with each other when they have only ever fought. Earlier, Tom and Kate were set up because they were already in love too. Just ridiculous. They are in high school and hadn’t even been together yet! Their friend group is just so dramatic and really in each other’s business. Like why are they so invested in each other’s love lives and have to manipulate everything? People don’t need a rom-com forced on them.
This was a quick and decent read. I liked how it acknowledged its likeness to Much Ado About Nothing by mentioning Shakespeare’s plays near the end and also its additional storylines of Emma wanting more bi representation in movies and Sophia’s relationship with her mom. The characters WERE quite angsty and a bit hard to handle but that is expected given the YA genre. As an adult, I pick up YA fiction for cute, easy-to-read stories to contrast heavier themes and longer narratives within other books and this novel fit that description well.