Thank you to Simon Teen for the ARC of This Book Might Be About Zinnia by Brittney Morris. All opinions are my own. 

For years I’ve been fascinated with stories about adoption and reuniting families, so that was my main reason for choosing to read this book. While it wasn’t quite what I expected, I overall enjoyed this book and would recommend it to other people. 

While this book has some light moments, it’s an overall pretty serious and emotional story about characters experiencing a lot of difficult circumstances. 

This book is split between two timelines and points of view. There’s Zinnia, who’s a high school senior preparing to go to Harvard. She’s had a relatively easy life with her adoptive parents and never thought to track down her birth mom until she sees similarities between herself and a character in a new book. 

The other timeline follows Tuesday, who’s a teen mom struggling with the fact that she gave her baby up for adoption and is dealing with a mom who constantly gaslights her. There’s also a lot of secrecy around her dad and his connection to the baby’s father. 

I enjoyed reading from both perspectives, but I think I liked Tuesday a little bit more just because of her strength and bravery. I didn’t dislike Zinnia, but it frustrated me how much of her life revolved around herself to the point that she didn’t pay attention to the struggles of her best friend and that she dismissed her mother’s worries for her safety. 

I liked how the two timelines came together in an interested and unexpected plot. It was fun trying to piece things together throughout the story. 

Overall, I think this was a solid book. If you like stories with complicated family dynamics, flawed characters, and platonic relationships, then I think you’ll like this story.