The Upside of Unrequited

I love Becky Albertalli's writing. I started a new book right after this one from another author and had to put it down because what comes so naturally to BA seemed clunky from this author. I had to get some distance before giving that author another chance.

I didn't like “Upside” as much as “Simon,” but that's to be expected because I like Simon even more as time goes by. Another issue is that I get a little impatient with love triangles, especially since there is no real mystery about who is the right object of affection. Every moment she was with the wrong love interest took away page space from Molly spending time with the guy she really liked.

Lots of love and embrace of the LGBTQA community. I loved that both Molly and one of the love interests have two mom – with the love interest's moms as Molly's boss – and yet this similarity took up no head space any more than of they each had one blond and one red-headed parent. Her bosses didn't even know this until Molly told them her parents became engaged to celebrate marriage equality.

I also love that among Molly's crushes was a trans boy, and this is also handled like there is nothing to handle or parse.

Becky Albertalli is one of the best YA author working today!