#samreads

It starts out w the main character, Ava, who the readers assume is gay because she has a girlfriend, wanting to transfer to another school. Over the course of the book, she meets a group of ‘Stews’ (stage crew students) and eventually becomes friends with them. She also realizes she’s attracted to not only females but males as well. On this discovery, she dumps her girlfriend (because she doesnt want to transfer back and pretend her transfer never happened) and meets Sam (whom the narrative suggests Ava’s attracted to). Even though the words lesbians and straight has been thrown around throughout the book, there was no mention of Ava’s actual canon sexuality which is bisexuality.

This book had so much potentially (sexuality, feminism). Even the feminist rants made me feel like the author doesn’t exactly know what feminism is (looking at the main character’s parents). When some good feminist points were brought up, it felt cheapened by how much the main character’s parents were pushing her to be different and a lesbian. Do people refer to their parents by their first names? Chill the fuck down, you’re like 12. I didn’t feel connected to the main character at all, the author didn’t give the reader a chance to later sympathize w her. I mean she’s been planing on cheating on her girlfriend for like half of the book and then when she finally makes out w a guy, she’s like oh shit.

By the end of the book, she literally learns nothing for example that she’s an idiot or like hello bisexuality is a thing. She leads Sam on: after he confesses how he feels about her and she tells him she feels the same way and shit, she’s like let’s just be friends???