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by Hannah Moskowitz

• ASIN: B01MPX9LRI
• Publish Date: 2016
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 261
• Language: English

Reviews

[Angie]

YES!
+Polyamory! F/M/F!
+Taylor is weird and bold. I like her. She's open and honest about hooking up, and doesn't pretend to be someone she's not.
+Theo and Josey are also weird. I like them.
+Taylor is Cuban. Theo is Brazilian. #WNDB
+Theo, Taylor, and Josie talk openly and honestly about the inner workings of their relationship, jealousy, sex, and the future.
+Taylor and her mom!
+All kinds of relationships are represented.

NO!
-Typos.
-Taylor's narrative is a little rambly and disjointed at times.
-Alexis. Taylor doesn't like her and neither do I.

[Leah]

This was an interesting read. I've never read a book about a poly relationship and I was intrigued how it worked between Theo, Josey and Taylor, but I also kinda wanted more between Josey and Taylor.

Also, the editing was pretty bad. Not going to lie. I picked up on so many spelling errors and incorrect words and missing words and it was glaringly obvious, which was a shame. I always find multiple errors bring me out of the book.

[Heather]

I have a few things that I consider to be true about my reading life.

1. YA books generally annoy me.


2. I especially don't like YA contemporary books.


3. I hate, hate, hate love triangles.

I hate to have to rethink long held beliefs about myself.  I'm going to have to though.  I've been enjoying some YA contemporary books lately.

I loved this book.  I loved it even though this is an actual love triangle.  Maybe I don't hate it because no one is choosing who to love and is just agreeing to love everyone.  It isn't a competition.

Taylor is a junior when she moves to a new town.  She meets Theo and Josey.  She is warned that they are weird but she likes Theo a lot.  When they explain to her that they are polyamorous, she doesn't know what that means.  In their relationship that means that they are open to other partners.

Other people misunderstand the intent behind the relationship.  They feel that it is unfair for Theo to have two girls that he is using.  They think that it means that Taylor is open to sleeping with any one.  Taylor is nervous that her involvement will feed into stereotypes of Latinas being The Other Women.

What I found most interesting about this book is that I believed it.  I wasn't mocking the author's attempts to make it seem like this was a real relationship that wasn't exploiting anyone because it felt real.  I could see how this relationship could work.  It worked better than a lot of two person relationships I've read about in books.  There were no major misunderstandings that could be resolved just by talking to each other.  There was no game playing to make someone else jealous or insecure.  It felt age appropriate.

My only complaint about this book was Josey's obsession with vet school that didn't make any sense at all.  I ranted about that all in this post.

 This review was originally posted on Based On A True Story