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Narrated by:
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Sunil Malhotra
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By:
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Naomi Kanakia
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In this queer contemporary YA, perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Nandan’s perfect plan for junior year goes awry after he hooks up with a guy for the first time.
Nandan’s got a plan to make his junior year perfect, but hooking up with his friend Dave isn’t part of it - especially because Nandan has never been into guys.
Still, Nandan’s willing to give a relationship with him a shot. But the more his anxiety grows about what his sexuality means for himself, his friends, and his social life, the more he wonders whether he can just take it all back.
Is breaking up with Dave - the only person who’s ever really gotten him - worth feeling “normal” again?
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It was ok. Not great!
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2.5 stars
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Ok Story
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A Really Sweet Story
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I think the narrator is good overall, especially voicing Dave's more subdued, emotional dialogue. Just, if you're deciding between print or audio, the similar-sounding characters is something to be aware of.
Second, I love this story. I have no idea what other people are reading into it that they're having such a strong negative reaction to. Sure, Nandan is kinda shallow and judgemental, but he also easily and readily revises his judgements to be more open-minded. He *wants* everyone to be interesting; he's looking for the story in everyone.
Sometimes, absolutely, that makes him misunderstand people, because wanting that gets in the way of seeing people how they really are. But also, being seen as someone grand is kind of amazing-- it's a kind of gift Nandan can give to people, even if he doesn't exactly see it that way.
Also, tellingly: he cannot see the story in *himself,* which makes him feel insecure, and that's part of what drives him to define himself by relationships and social status, and more interestingly, his social role, like his job or purpose within a social group.
He manipulates because he thinks people won't like him if he's just "himself." He can't see in himself what is so obvious to Dave.
I think that's part of what makes this story so beautiful and resonant with me. It's often easier for me to observe others and to catch myself mentally narrating than it is to truly open up with people and engage naturally.
The other thing is, the story explores how finding a label for something doesn't always add a whole lot of clarity. For example, and this is a bit of a spoiler, Nandan is frequently sex-repulsed.
Sometimes he feels attracted to Dave sexually, physically, and emotionally, sometimes the attraction seems to vanish, sometimes it is abruptly turned to disgust. He dissociates once, during sex, which was very...realistic. Believable.
Throughout the story, Nandan draws attention to interior, bodily, tactile details as much as he narrates sights, sounds, and events. To inhabit Nandan is a vivid and not always pleasant experience.
Yet, it's a moving experience for all of its intensity.
And he has trouble talking about being sex repulsed at times, and he feels confused because he wants sex other times, and...I think, honestly some of the reason some of the negative reviews on other sites really bother me is that the reviewers seem to take sex aversion to be homophobic or sexist.
And it's just not. There are a lot of reasons a person might be sex averse that aren't orientation-related. Someone might have a history of physical or sexual trauma, maybe they're neurodivergent, maybe they have an invisible disability, maybe they have a physical or gender dysphoria.
Or, maybe Nandan is asexual, but the term seems to deny potential that he wants to have.
It's ok to not know, especially in high school. Speaking to neurodivergence specifically, there are many people who don't get diagnosed with ASD or ADHD until their 20s, or later.
Ultimately, I love that Dave accepts Nandan for who he really is, confusion and queerness and all. Dave is great, their relationship is moving, and most of the side plots were also pretty interesting. Even minor characters, like Nandan's mom, were detailed enough to make them memorable, to hint at other stories they were each protagonists of, albeit stories Nandan knows nothing about.
5/5 beautiful story, and 3/5 decent narration
Beautiful story, not my favorite narrator
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The reader is great for the narrator but voicing everyone else verged on Very Annoying.
Devastating and fantastic
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This was the first time I read a YA novel that wasn’t SciFi or Fantasy and was not disappointed. I finished it in two days, and couldn’t put it down. The Audible was great - really good narrator who brought the story to life.
Complexity of attraction
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Wonderful message
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