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A review by elementarymydear
Noah Frye Gets Crushed by Maggie Horne
3.0
This book was a bit of a mixed bag for me, so let’s start with the things I enjoyed!
The thing that stood out the most for me was the depiction of compulsory heterosexuality. I thought it was done really well, as we saw Noah pick a boy to ‘have a crush on’, and look at her straight friends and try to copy the way they felt and acted about boys. Sometimes it lead to hilarious outcomes, sometimes heartbreaking, and I thought it was done really well.
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I also really liked the different relationships that Noah had with her friends and family. She has a strong (and true-to-life) relationship with her older sister, and all of the friendships were really sweet.
To be honest, the relationship with Jessa – the girl she has a crush on – was the most underwhelming. I didn’t really get a sense that Noah fancied her, or that the way she felt about Jessa was different than any of her other friends, until the very end. Mostly it came from other characters (such as Noah’s sister suspecting she had a crush) rather than Noah herself, and I would have liked to see a bit more in the text.
With that came lower stakes for me in the story. I wasn’t particularly invested, and the book didn’t really engage me in the way I wanted it to.
There are some really great themes and ideas in this book, but overall I found it fell a little flat for me.
I received a free copy for an honest review.
The thing that stood out the most for me was the depiction of compulsory heterosexuality. I thought it was done really well, as we saw Noah pick a boy to ‘have a crush on’, and look at her straight friends and try to copy the way they felt and acted about boys. Sometimes it lead to hilarious outcomes, sometimes heartbreaking, and I thought it was done really well.
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I also really liked the different relationships that Noah had with her friends and family. She has a strong (and true-to-life) relationship with her older sister, and all of the friendships were really sweet.
To be honest, the relationship with Jessa – the girl she has a crush on – was the most underwhelming. I didn’t really get a sense that Noah fancied her, or that the way she felt about Jessa was different than any of her other friends, until the very end. Mostly it came from other characters (such as Noah’s sister suspecting she had a crush) rather than Noah herself, and I would have liked to see a bit more in the text.
With that came lower stakes for me in the story. I wasn’t particularly invested, and the book didn’t really engage me in the way I wanted it to.
There are some really great themes and ideas in this book, but overall I found it fell a little flat for me.
I received a free copy for an honest review.