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Cool for the Summer
by Dahlia Adler
Nah no thanks. That throwaway biphobic line did NOT need to be there and the nonbinary side, side character felt reduced to a flag.
Also this was just 250 pages of jealousy and complaining the person you 'moved on from' was maybe dating someone else (when you yourself had done the same thing) and blaming them for lack of communication when again, you yourself had done the same thing bye
Full Review:
This book was just not it. I listened to an audiobook, but I probably would've been too frustrated to finish it had I been reading it physically. I really do think we need more books about characters who are questioning their identity, even if they don't come out with a label at the end or even if they just find out they're straight or cis, because the act of questioning itself needs to be more normalized, but I just don't think this book was that good as a whole, regardless of the gap it fills.
Beyond the throwaway biphobic line that just pissed me off (there was literally no reason for it to be there, the story would've been the same without it, and now I just had to hear that bullshit again read out loud to me), this book was just quite boring, and when it wasn't boring, it was just annoying. The MC is just, so hypocritical the entire book, and everything that frustrates her about the girl she's into, is exactly the same things she's doing. She just had no self-awareness, and it just grew more and more frustrating as the book went on.
I also just really disliked the MC's friends too, and spent the entire book hoping she'd find better friends. But since none of the side characters are really fleshed out, it felt like this was just pushed to the side and not really resolved. That was overall the case with most side characters, to the extent where it just felt like it was the MC, and either Jasmine or Chase depending on where in the story/timeline we were.
Overall, this book just wasn't it for me, though maybe it'll work out well for others! I can see this possibly being nice for those who are going through the MC's struggles, but hopefully we get some more books to fill this gap as well.
Also this was just 250 pages of jealousy and complaining the person you 'moved on from' was maybe dating someone else (when you yourself had done the same thing) and blaming them for lack of communication when again, you yourself had done the same thing bye
Full Review:
This book was just not it. I listened to an audiobook, but I probably would've been too frustrated to finish it had I been reading it physically. I really do think we need more books about characters who are questioning their identity, even if they don't come out with a label at the end or even if they just find out they're straight or cis, because the act of questioning itself needs to be more normalized, but I just don't think this book was that good as a whole, regardless of the gap it fills.
Beyond the throwaway biphobic line that just pissed me off (there was literally no reason for it to be there, the story would've been the same without it, and now I just had to hear that bullshit again read out loud to me), this book was just quite boring, and when it wasn't boring, it was just annoying. The MC is just, so hypocritical the entire book, and everything that frustrates her about the girl she's into, is exactly the same things she's doing. She just had no self-awareness, and it just grew more and more frustrating as the book went on.
I also just really disliked the MC's friends too, and spent the entire book hoping she'd find better friends. But since none of the side characters are really fleshed out, it felt like this was just pushed to the side and not really resolved. That was overall the case with most side characters, to the extent where it just felt like it was the MC, and either Jasmine or Chase depending on where in the story/timeline we were.
Overall, this book just wasn't it for me, though maybe it'll work out well for others! I can see this possibly being nice for those who are going through the MC's struggles, but hopefully we get some more books to fill this gap as well.