Author: Becky Albertalli
Author: Becky Albertalli
Pages: 343
My rating: 5/5
Published: April 24th, 2018
“I swear, people can’t wrap their minds around the concept of a fat girl who doesn’t diet. Is it that hard to believe I might actually like my body?”
Goodreads Description
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.
Review
This is the sequel to Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, a book that made me love all of the characters from the start and left me wanting more, a wish that came true. After Simon had gotten the guy, it's Leah's turn to stand in the spotlight in this love story, and she does it very well. Leah is a very strong character that isn't afraid to say what she thinks. Her personality made me dislike her in the first book of the Creekwood series, because of her tendency to get moody "all of the time", but after getting her perspective, I saw her character evolve and now I would love having her as one of my best friends, along with the rest of the gang.
There is a lot going on in this book and a lot has happened since we last saw the gang. After all, it's been a year. It was good to jump back into this world and see how Simon and Bram are doing. This book put me in such a good mood. It is important, intriguing, fun, filled with love and takes an unexpected turn. I had no idea that Leah was going to fall for Abby and the other way around. But I liked it. I think it was clever of Becky Albertalli to not make it so obvious of who Leah was going to end up with, because in Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, I kind of guessed who Blue was before it was revealed, but reading this book I was clueless, until Leah started thinking about Abby a lot.
Something I do not like about Leah on the Offbeat is how Nick acted after Abby broke up with him. I wished that the author would make him a little less insane and a little more sensible. That he made out with Taylor was just wrong, in my opinion. Of course, Leah, Simon, Bram, and Abby could joke about it in the end, but I really liked Nick and I thought he would be more reasonable, even when going thru something as heartbreaking as a breakup.
It was weird to see the characters finishing High School. It is like you have known them for a long time and then they are suddenly so old and are already going to College. I just can not believe it. I hope this is not the end of the Creekwood series. I want more, so much more. Becky Albertalli has made me adore these characters and I do not want to leave them just yet. I guess I am kind of lucky that I still have The Upside of Unrequited to read. I can not wait to get more of the 'Simonverse'.
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