A review by bookishnewfie
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

3.0

This Book was really hard for me to get in to at the start, which caused me to put it down and leave it alone for months. With the goal of finishing it so I could trade it in for credit at my local book store, I powered through the slow beginning and it got a lot easer to just keep reading. In saying that there were some things I liked about this book, and a lot of things I really did not like. I loved that Leah was a bad ass drummer, plus sized Bi girl that was 100% herself but what got old real fast was how much of an asshole she is with her stupid attitude. This may be due to the fact that I am 28 and high school and teen bullshit is so un relatable to me but the high school is ending omg College story was just so boring to me. I also really felt that they kept relying on your love of Simon from the first book as they just insert him so often in random situations it’s like it’s for you to remember it’s part of the same group of his friends. If I had to go back and chose to read this again I would not, but it gets points for LGBTQ+ representation and having a main character girl that is not cookie cutter.