Chrissy’s Review: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

The Upside of Unrequited
written by Becky Albertalli
published by Balzer + Bray, 2017

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Did I enjoy this book? It was OK, but not a book to write home about. I started reading this book in 2017 and put it down with less than a hundred pages to go. I was going to DNF it, but a year and a half later, I saw how many pages I had left and decided to finish it. I was hoping my dislike of the book a few years ago was a mood thing. Sadly, it wasn’t a mood issue. I just didn’t like the story. It didn’t hold my interest. I didn’t connect to the characters. And I really didn’t like the dialogue or the overuse of the F-word. It sounded so forced and like the teens were trying to be cool “adults” or something.

 

 

Would I recommend it? No, I wouldn’t recommend it.

 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.

Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back.

There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker Reid. He’s an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?

 

 

 

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