layawaydragon
Written on Jun 5, 2018
I was immediately swept up in The Summer of Jordi Perez! It's adorable. Awesome fat and lesbian rep. Love the crossing of cliques. Love to hate the mom - she's like so many women I know and I'm happy to see it represented, but god, she's so fatphobic it made me ache for Abby. I love her dad and Jordi's family. The issues and reactions are so perfect. I would totally read more about Abby and Jordi, or any of their related queer friends.
And this is weird, but finally someone who gets not wanting to drive! It's so frustrating being the one who still doesn't. Me and my friend both fear and hate driving, walk a lot and take public transportation, yet people still give us shit about fatness and exercising. Ugh, people just don't get it. So it made me really happy to read another like us - Abby.
The one thing I will say is the original crush girl Abby was hoping was gay, then gets a bf and assumed to be straight...she could be bi, ya know? I mean she's off the market with a partner now but that don't mean she's not in to girls at all!
But all in all, a cute, fluffy, realistic, interesting f/f romance YA novel that I recommend for everyone.
Quotes from Reading:
"She said I'd finally be happy and pretty."
"Why not? It's not an insult, just a thing. A thing I am."
"I just want you happy and healthy and--"
"I'm very healthy. Dr. Misra says so. Remember?"
"Hmmm," Mom says. Every year after my annual physical, it seems she's determined something's wrong with me that could be cured by skinniness.
"Abbs, I'm a feminist," he says. "I'm equally scared of all feelings."
And to all the girls who worry they take up too much space: you don't.