A review by maketeaa
Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

what stands out the most in this book is that, despite it all, the intense human longing between two people to simply belong. being spurned seems like something juno and legs both had beaten into them from their childhood -- at age twelve, when juno's estate could put her mother's tailoring service out of business, when legs was stood up in front of his class and called a girl -- all for the fact that their identities simply did not fit with the proscribed mould. as they grow older, we see how these experiences follow them -- when legs gets tangled in the juvenile detention system because of his retaliation against the father, when juno is left homeless after her sister takes possession of their mother's property because it just made more sense for someone like her. and yet, no matter how far to the outskirts they were pushed, juno and legs' devotion to one another never faltered. but devotion comes with its own cocktail of complications, which geary doesn't hesitate to delve into. because while two people may need each other, they may not need each other in the same way.