MixedThe upside of unrequited is kind of another case where it's a story that's really personal to me and I related to it a lot so I think that's one of the reasons why it's my favorite but I did also have a couple of issues with it
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The upside of unrequited (2017)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can t stomach the idea of rejection. So she s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.
- ISBN:
- 9780062348708
- Length:
- 410 pages
Genres: romance
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Loved itThis is a light-hearted rom-com, so at the end of a long stressful day it was such a pleasure to sit down with the book and a cup of coffee and snuggle up and be welcomed into this family, focusing on their drama instead of my own.
Loved itthe upside of unrequited by becky albertalli which is one of my all-time favourite books this book it was just oh my god I like it better than Simon versus of Homo sapiens agenda I really do
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Loved itit's kind of like a rom-com it's a very funny book and it's about Molly kind of dealing with this crush that she currently has
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Loved itI loved this book for so many reasons namely becky albertalli can just bright teenagers in a way that i adore that feels real and wonderful
Loved itThis is a lighthearted little romance. The main character is fat and she has anxiety. Those are both things that I personally relate to and she is a hopeless romantic, she's got a lot of crushes on boys that don't even realize it and I totally was like that when I was a teenager.
Loved itI read it in like five hours it changed my life it was so relatable one of the main reasons I really loved this book is because of the fat rub that fat rep was so incredibly relatable for me