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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)

Becky Albertalli

Start date: August 2, 2016

Finish date: August 30, 2016

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Mar 19, 2015 Seahorse Library rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-ya, genre-mm, genre-contemporary, genre-romance, on-my-bookshelf

Review also posted to Words Read & Written

Why I picked it up:

This book was sent to me from Penguin in exchange for an honest review.

My Thoughts:

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda opens with the sentence “It’s a weirdly subtle conversation.” I read the sentence three or four times and immediately knew this would be a book I either loved or hated.

It was immediately obvious that this book has a great unique voice. And I always love a book that mentions fanfiction! I read a lot of fanfiction in 2004- ...more

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Jan 26, 2018 Susan rated it really liked it

I've really enjoyed the books I've read by Becky Albertalli and I am looking forward to reading her newest one coming out this year, Leah on the Off Beat. It was based off one of Simon's best friend in this book and she is a badass character we all got to know and love.

Simon, Nick and Leah have been best friends for along time and they share so many things except Simon is holding back a huge secret and that's that he is gay. It's not that they won't except him it's that he just doesn't want it t ...more

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Feb 17, 2019 Katrisa rated it really liked it

I enjoyed this way more than I expected to. High school romance stories are not usually my jam, but this was just delightful.

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Apr 08, 2018 Michelle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya-childrens, coming-of-age

Devoured in about 5 hours 😍

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Feb 21, 2018 Windy Kahler rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was a cute book. I think the writing may have been too cutesy, which kept me from really loving it. I'm interested in seeing how they spin the movie. ...more

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