Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)
Becky Albertalli
Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.
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This was good, but I would’ve loved this same setting/arc but told through Abby. A person of color who has to maintain a perfect appearance and positive personality while questioning/discovering her sexuality? That is an amazing story waiting to be told.
0Was listening to the audiobook, and I thoroughly enjoyed the audio of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda! But this one for me was NOT working. The narrator was whiny and didn't have enough inflection and intonation change to her voice. My attention would wander and I found it hard to parse when was conversation vs mental thought vs dialogue. Hard to tell how much of this was the narrator versus character, but Leah herself was frustrating to me too.
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