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A review by pddkny
The Inside of Out by Jenn Marie Thorne
4.0
What surprised me about this novel is how intriguing all the characters are. Like people in real life, no one is who they seem to be. I think that the author doing this well only serves to endear us to the characters - well, most of them anyway.
One of the parts of the story that I found quite lacking is the relationship between Daisy and Adam. I don't think their connection was forged sufficiently, and I think their eventual romance came out of nowhere... I also think it was a little bit of a tired trope to have Adam fall for Daisy when both of them even acknowledged that Adam had problems making friends with people his age - he had realisations about his career, but why didn't he have more realisations about himself as well?
Otherwise, what a delightful LGBT YA novel coming from a different perspective, but not at the expense of the colourful LGBT characters that inhabit the story.
One of the parts of the story that I found quite lacking is the relationship between Daisy and Adam. I don't think their connection was forged sufficiently, and I think their eventual romance came out of nowhere... I also think it was a little bit of a tired trope to have Adam fall for Daisy when both of them even acknowledged that Adam had problems making friends with people his age - he had realisations about his career, but why didn't he have more realisations about himself as well?
Otherwise, what a delightful LGBT YA novel coming from a different perspective, but not at the expense of the colourful LGBT characters that inhabit the story.