A review by meganaderr
This Song Is (Not) for You by Laura Nowlin

2.0


The one thing I really really loved about this book was the relationship, or at least how it ended up.
SpoilerI like that Tom is ace, the other two are allo, and Tom and Sam are biromantic (at least that's how they read to me). I like they talked, and worked it out, and will clearly continue to work hard at being a happy threesome. That was amazing, wonderful, and I loved it


I did not like that Ramona was the snowflower who was different from other girls, Quirky (tm), and so many other tiresome cliches and that I think there was like one other girl she approved of (Sara, if there were others I've already forgotten) and she says the other girl 'started it' with their mutual hatred but it seems to me Ramona was the jerk. And I was hoping maybe part of her evolution was to leave the girl hate behind, but sadly that was not the case.

the boys were equally snowflower in their way, and it just got old. All three acted like they were Better and Different From Other Kids and I'm just not down with that.

And I really hate when books do weird things with the writing like this one did, with the verses and odd formatting for Effect and such. It's distracting and annoying, not whatever they were hoping it would be.