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Conventionally Yours
by Annabeth Albert
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Conrad and Alden have the chance of a lifetime - free tickets to a large, west-coast convention. The only issue, they have to get there without killing each other first.
They both play a table-top card game called Odyssey, along with a few friends and a professor who has a gaming channel and streams all their games. For several reasons - Conrad can't afford the plane tickets and Alden does not fly - they're driving from New Jersey to Las Vegas, NV. If I'd read Homer's Odyssey recently, I'm sure most of their experiences match up with those in the epic poem. Things happen, both good and bad, on their epic journey across the continental US.
This book follows one of my favorite tropes - enemies to lovers - and it follows it extremely well. It jumps back and forth in POV character, but stays in first-person POV, which can be a little jarring at first. I don't play any table-top card games, so I had trouble following along during the game play chapters. The games were well described, and the author does an extremely good job explaining for the uninitiated, but there were still entire sections that left me going "um, what just happened?" due to the game. The book was very entertaining, and well worth the read.
They both play a table-top card game called Odyssey, along with a few friends and a professor who has a gaming channel and streams all their games. For several reasons - Conrad can't afford the plane tickets and Alden does not fly - they're driving from New Jersey to Las Vegas, NV. If I'd read Homer's Odyssey recently, I'm sure most of their experiences match up with those in the epic poem. Things happen, both good and bad, on their epic journey across the continental US.
This book follows one of my favorite tropes - enemies to lovers - and it follows it extremely well. It jumps back and forth in POV character, but stays in first-person POV, which can be a little jarring at first. I don't play any table-top card games, so I had trouble following along during the game play chapters. The games were well described, and the author does an extremely good job explaining for the uninitiated, but there were still entire sections that left me going "um, what just happened?" due to the game. The book was very entertaining, and well worth the read.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia