LGBT Book Rec: Adaptation & Inheritance from Malinda Lo

Blurb taken from Goodreads: 
Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.

Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded.

Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are—or how they’ve been miraculously healed.

Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction—and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.

My thoughts:
This is a two-for-one review, but I'm going to avoid spoilers as best as I can. Here we go.

I liked the fast plot, the mysteries, the successive little revelations. At the end of the first book I was unhappy because the main mystery, what's wrong with the birds, was not completely explained. It felt hand-waved away. Thankfully we got proper answers in the second book.

I very much liked how the main character's bisexuality is handled, especially what happens to the love triangle at the end of book two. The narrative gets a little into what kind of BS bisexual people can face (such as being considered "indecisive" or cheaters/sluts) without hitting you over the head with it. Well-done, all around.

I however didn't like the amount of relationship angst. Oh noes, I like him! Oh noes, I like her too! My tolerance for romance-related angst is very low and I wish there was less of it--both in this specific series and in YA books in general. At this point I'm more interested in this series for its plot than its characters.

Will I be picking up the third volume? Absolutely. It's good stuff and I want to know what'll happen next.