Lucia's Reviews > The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

3.5 STARS

"Being in love is so complicated, I don't think I ever fully realized how insane and intense it can make you feel - and not necessarily in a good way."

Cute and nerdy teenage love story. That's how I would describe this novel. Or how can everything go wrong when you decide to profess love to your best friend at Comic Con. Most surprising thing? This book was pretty funny, here and there!

Graham can chat and draw comics with his best friend Roxy for hours, but he is at complete lost how to tell her that he loves her and how to get her to be his girlfriend. I'm not going to lie, Graham was awkward but quite unique narrator. Sometimes, he sounded more like fantasy comic hero himself than a real boy. But it was what made him "him" and I was okay with that. However, even though I liked expressive writing style, at the same time it was hard to believe that teenage male narrator would speak and think in such a way. Maybe I'm being judgmental but no real teenage boy I have ever knew (or heard about) had such lively way of expressing himself. So yeah, it was entertaining to read about but quite unrealistic.

In short, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love is quick and entertaining read. Nonetheless, it lacked solid background and character's introduction and development. It felt like an episode of sitcom where we are already supposed to know characters and are thrown into the story without proper introduction.

But enough of negatives. Even though this is no masterpiece, I truly enjoyed myself and found premise of comic geeks romance an interesting topic for YA novel and I do think that this book is worth of reading if you want something quick and not very angsty to read.

*ARC provided by publisher as an exchange for honest review*

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