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Going Bicoastal
by Dahlia Adler
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_Doors">Sliding Doors</a>-like YA story, where Natalya's summer is depicted in alternating chapters as if she'd made both sides of a tough decision. Does she spend her rising-senior summer in NYC, as always, with her dad or try to connect with her mother in LA? In NY, the bisexual protagonist meets her crush, a girl she comes to know as Ellie, and in CA, her love interest is fellow intern, Adam.
I feel like bisexual romances often pit the lovers against each other by gender, but Adler goes around this trope by taking the competition out if it. She's just showing how Natalya's life plays out in two scenarios.
I normally really enjoy Dahlia Adler's writing, but liked this one less, perhaps because I listened Mara Wilson narrate the audiobook, rather than read it with my eyeballs. Wilson sounds surprisingly like the narrators of the two other novels I've listened to (<a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c9e961cf-73e2-45ba-96c5-58a9e2197a91">Tumble</a> and <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/df958962-87c4-4f2f-bb25-ec3b311a4830">Four Aunties and a Wedding</a>.
I feel like bisexual romances often pit the lovers against each other by gender, but Adler goes around this trope by taking the competition out if it. She's just showing how Natalya's life plays out in two scenarios.
I normally really enjoy Dahlia Adler's writing, but liked this one less, perhaps because I listened Mara Wilson narrate the audiobook, rather than read it with my eyeballs. Wilson sounds surprisingly like the narrators of the two other novels I've listened to (<a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c9e961cf-73e2-45ba-96c5-58a9e2197a91">Tumble</a> and <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/df958962-87c4-4f2f-bb25-ec3b311a4830">Four Aunties and a Wedding</a>.