Courtney "Coop" Cooper:
Dumped. Again. And normally I wouldn't mind. But right now, my best friend and source of solace, Jupiter Sanchez, is ignoring me to text some girl.
Rae Evelyn Chin:
I assumed "new girl" would be synonymous with 'pariah', but Jupiter and Courtney make me feel like I'm right where I belong. I also want to kiss him. And her. Which is... perplexing.
Jupiter Charity-Sanchez:
The only thing worse than losing the girl you love to a boy is losing her to your boy. That means losing him too. I have to make a move...
One story. Three sides. No easy answers.
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[I, Courtney Aloysius Cooper IV, Should Be a Very Sad Dude]***
(Simon & Schuster Children's UK, 18 October 2018, 304 pages, ebook, A Year of @EpicReads 2019, a book with multiple narrators, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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I'd never heard of the author before but the blurb intrigued me and the book sat perfect with reading challenge category so I decided to give it a whirl. Unfortunately, this just didn't click for me. I didn't enjoy reading this book at all. The writing style came across as unrealistic, awkward, clunky and just strange. The phrasing is odd at times. Maybe this was intended to convey characters or something but it just came across as off. There is weird, overly childish phrasing used throughout which is odd as the characters aren't as young as their thoughts and language convey at times. Action quotes are used to convey actual action such as "**eyes bulge out of head**" which is just weird. The book tries too hard to represent different sexuality's and fails on every level. Jupiter constantly questions if bi people can be attracted to trans people and this becomes exhausting and quite prejudice at times. Also, the whole premise of the book is that Copper, Jupiter and Rae and going to end up in a polyamorous relationship because they spend the whole book talking about how they're all in love with each other and this goes nowhere. The book tries too hard to be different things and doesn't succeed at any of them.