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Not the cute twin,\nnor the bold twin,
\nnot ever getting kissed?<\/p>\n
Not the cute twin,
\nnor the bold twin,
\nnot ever getting kissed?<\/p>\n
Molly and Cassie’s moms (finally getting married – yay!) have lots of great advice, but asking them how to get past just a crush<\/a> to real relationship? Not gonna do that.<\/p>\n Published yesterday (11 April 2017), The Upside of Unrequited<\/em> is Molly’s very essence: hopeful yet hesitant, creative and cautious, trying to move out of her shy chubby-girl comfort zone and get close enough to a guy to be accepted… or rejected. <\/p>\n Be sure to visit the publisher’s website here<\/a> to read the first chapters free. <\/p>\n I adored Albertalli’s debut novel, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda<\/em> (my no-spoiler review here<\/a>) and cannot wait to meet whoever her next novel brings us.<\/p>\n Are you brave enough to try something that might break your heart? Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Upside of Unrequited \/ Becky Albertalli. Balzer + Bray, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: Always crushing on a guy means never getting hurt, but never in a relationship either – maybe summer before senior year will be different for Molly. Her twin Cassie is with Mina now and eager to help things along – if only Molly will be brave enough to talk to someone!<\/p>\n Planning her moms’ wedding (finally legal in Maryland!), working with Reid in his parents’ eclectic shop for the summer, and worrying that Cassie is way too enthusiastic about hipster Will as perfect “Operation Boyfriend” material – no wonder Molly is too anxious to sleep well.<\/p>\n Has Cassie really fallen in love with Mina? Not the cute twin, nor the bold twin, not ever getting kissed? Molly and Cassie’s moms (finally getting married – yay!) have lots of great advice, but asking them how to get past just a crush to real relationship? Not gonna do that. Published yesterday (11 April 2017), The Upside of Unrequited is Molly’s very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,163,22,7,4,75,11,5,16,18,44,46,43,187,39,295,184,15,21,57,73,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-8272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-lgbtq","tag-love","tag-maryland","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Upside-of-Unrequited.png?fit=396%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8272"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8416,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions\/8416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nWill Aunt Karen relent and come to their moms’ wedding?
\nWhy is being with Reid so… real?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"