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Amelia, If Only by Becky Albertalli

Well, this was another one that doesn't have anything wrong with it but for a few reasons isn't for me, so that left me a bit disappointed. Amelia, the titular character, is the prototype for a chaos bi, to the point that her thoughts and behaviors sometimes made me anxious. Also, I think I'm discovering that I have less of a tolerance for YA and books with charcters you get than me because this was the second one the characters would be GenZ and written as someone that age would talk but I just couldn't deal with the slang. So that's a me thing. The only other thing is that I know Albertalli has had people online accuse her of qieerbatinf and it's been a whole awful big thing, and I liked that she wrote that into this book but it felt a little heavy handed or like the supporting evidence was too much (lots of inserts with online discourse, etc). I feel like a jerk saying that because she's probably had to deal with exactly what we see in the book and I'm just annoyed with having to read it. Otherwise, the story of an 18 year old girl going on a road trip with her friends to see a YouTuber she's a fan of and the eventually realizing it's not him she actually likes, it's one of her friends, is a good story and the last 1/4 of it I did really enjoy, and it wasn't annoying enough earlier to DNF by any means. I'm sure the book will find its audience, I'm just not part of that audience, and that's okay. Love the Leni Kauffman cover, though!