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A review by heyitsmeg777
Boys I Know by Anna Gracia
4.0
The cover is pretty and the title was enough to get me roped into reading. And knowing that the main character is named after my birthday month, well, you have a reader who is sure to read.
Now, onto the summaries.
Short Summary: June is our average girl who goes through the amazingly bad luck with bad guys (COUGH COUGH) and along the way, discovers a lot about who she is meant to be and how to find peace with not always being the smartest cookie in the room.
The Longer Summary? June is a good enough student. She has a list of colleges her parents would disapprove of. She has crushes on guys that do not consider her girlfriend material and as she concocts crazy schemes to get to that stage with guys she meets (and falls for!) we get to see the messy reality check that slams into this poor girl's life and it opens the eyes of others who might be (or have been in her shoes!) Also, we get a better glimpse into the Asian American Identity which I feel we don't get to explore enough in YA literature and that definitely does resonate with how the Latinx identity works all while being collectively mortified by June's mother who absolutely got me feeling second hand embarrassment for June.
I read this one pretty quickly and skimmed at some parts where it was predictable/obvious what was going to happen but there are so many parts of June which I related to and honestly, I didn't like nearly any of the guys that appeared in this book because they really did resemble the crappy guys that we are supposed to avoid at all costs, but that at one point, we end up falling for anyways. June made for an interesting character that definitely was not afraid to mess up or take risks which I enjoyed.
Overall: 4/5 stars
Now, onto the summaries.
Short Summary: June is our average girl who goes through the amazingly bad luck with bad guys (COUGH COUGH) and along the way, discovers a lot about who she is meant to be and how to find peace with not always being the smartest cookie in the room.
The Longer Summary? June is a good enough student. She has a list of colleges her parents would disapprove of. She has crushes on guys that do not consider her girlfriend material and as she concocts crazy schemes to get to that stage with guys she meets (and falls for!) we get to see the messy reality check that slams into this poor girl's life and it opens the eyes of others who might be (or have been in her shoes!) Also, we get a better glimpse into the Asian American Identity which I feel we don't get to explore enough in YA literature and that definitely does resonate with how the Latinx identity works all while being collectively mortified by June's mother who absolutely got me feeling second hand embarrassment for June.
I read this one pretty quickly and skimmed at some parts where it was predictable/obvious what was going to happen but there are so many parts of June which I related to and honestly, I didn't like nearly any of the guys that appeared in this book because they really did resemble the crappy guys that we are supposed to avoid at all costs, but that at one point, we end up falling for anyways. June made for an interesting character that definitely was not afraid to mess up or take risks which I enjoyed.
Overall: 4/5 stars