My Book Ratings and Reviews

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda

Author: Becky Albertalli
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Spice: 🌶/5

About:

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: If he doesn't play wing-man for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he's been emailing with, will be jeopardized. With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon's junior year had suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out - without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met.

My Review:

While it's one of those basic romance books, This is one that I really love. This one has a same sex relationship just like Heartstopper but I didn't love it as much as Heartstopper. I just didn't like all the drama, I think there was a little too much. I do like the drama between Simon and Martin as that was the drama from the start but the drama between his friends seem forced because they only happened after Simon came out to them as gay. This is actually the first book I've read in a couple months so this book started me back into reading. I really loved the romance between Simon and Blue, seeing the emails start to get flirty made me giggle while reading. I love how they didn't actually meet until the end of the book, which creates lots of sexual tension between the two. When they got back to his place, they finally do the 'devils tango' which made me happy because there was lots of tension sexually through the emails. I was also happy when the drama between his friends got resolved. Although this book wasn't as good as Heartstopper, it still got 4.5 stars from me because it was a love story that i couldn't stop reading, I finished the whole book in a day because I was so invested in the story. The only smut was at the very end when they met but I still loved it regardless. Overall, The book was a good one to get me out of my reading slump.

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda was actually the book that like I said, took me out of my reading slump as I hadn't read in months because of school. It was a good book to start off with but not perfect. But the romance alone gave it the 4.5 stars, it lost a half star because of all the drama but it was still great in every way.

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