Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Mar 16, 2016 Chessa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, queer, poc-protagonist, poc-author, book-riot-rec

I really enjoyed this one! Leila is a teenaged Iranian-American and she's gay - and hasn't told anyone. The book deals with her second major crush (which takes place at her private school as opposed to summer camp), navigating friendships and family, and trying to find her place at school - you know, just easy breezy stuff. ;)

Much of the book deals with the crush/friendship with a manipulative girl - it was actually great to see a toxic friendship so accurately portrayed.

I enjoyed getting a lit ...more

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Jan 06, 2017 Kara rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, lgbtq

Good teen novels, such as this one, are like candy. Sweet and not too complicated, so you just want to keep eating/reading. Leila's voice is funny and real. Although this is a coming out story, I like that it starts with her already knowing she's gay and seeming pretty comfortable with it --at least for herself. Sharing that part of her identity with private school friends and Persian family is another thing. At the same time, Leila is figuring out other parts of who she is, like what her intere ...more

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Jun 08, 2017 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, american-fiction, young-adult-fiction, lgbtqia

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Mar 23, 2015 Renata rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, lgbtq, ya, contemporary, we-need-diverse-books

Funny, sweet queer romance. Hilarious portrayal of theater kids as well as a thoughtful look at race & class at a fancy private school, while somehow not seeming too "issue-y."

Pretty clean content--some underage drinking and discussion of others having sex, but nothing from the narrator. ...more

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Sep 10, 2015 Sarah rated it it was ok

Shelves: ya-fiction, ya-lgbtq, coming-of-age

A coming of age story and a coming out story from the perspective of an Iranian-American teen in a private high school. Most of the characters seemed a little unrealistic and the dialogue was clunky and forced. Additional demerits for some awkward stereotype references (researching Ani DiFranco and other folk singers to know the music of her "people") and for making a joke out of the possibility of prescribing anti-depressants to a teenager who has lost her brother to an accident. Bonus points f ...more

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