Review: The Upside of Unrequited

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

✰✰ 2 Stars

Looking through the reviews for this book leads me to believe that i'm in the minority with my rating. Perhaps I'm just not the right audience for this book. I'll admit I'm not the biggest romance fan out there but depending on the individual book I have liked numerous romance novels in the past.
Whilst there were some cutesy sweet like candy moments in this book the whole thing just fell flat for me. I didn't connect with any of the characters unfortunately...I actually didn't like any of them.
I'll start with our main character Molly, the 'average, slightly overweight, awkward, teenager' who has never been kissed by a boy, despite having had crushes on about 26 different guys, and oh my days is her life ending because of it. The book is basically 300 odd pages of Molly complaining, being overly self-centred and just being annoying in general.



The diversity of the characters are great when it comes to race and sexuality so that gets a thumbs up from me. The feminist angle was a bit hit and miss, perhaps trying too hard? Someone can be a feminist AND a romantic, of course they can.
Overall, this wasn't my cup of tea but I'm glad I got to cross it off my reading list.

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