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A review by taylor_broek
Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
5.0
Becky ate with this book! 5⭐️
I don’t really know what to say about this book because it just hit. It was so good!! Imogen is going to college next year and she is so excited to go where her best friend lili is already. She can’t wait for the independence and opportunity to start college life with a group of friends that don’t know you as the cis/het number 1 ally! Which is what her other best friend Gretchen says she is! Or is she more than an ally…?
When her best friend lili tells her that she told her whole cool queer group of friends that her and Imogen dated in the past because she felt like she didn’t have the right to be in the queer community if she didn’t have any queer dating experience, Imogen finally is released from the constraint that her other best friend Gretchen (and her self) put on her to be number #1Ally. instead she get to take the time & space to really consider who Imogen does find attractive and what her sexuality actually is surrounded by people who already think and believe she is queer. Especially when her & Tessa’s friendship grows into something maybe more & how that makes her feel as a supposedly raging heterosexual.
It was a refreshing coming of age and finding yourself story with accepting parents and college community for the most part. also interestingly discussed a common queer community phenomenon that a lot of people have experience or noticed that goes beyond biphobia and into the sort of ritualistic hazing and the idea of “earning“ your place and a community through the same struggles that the current members were forced to go through to be in it! With her queer best friend Gretchen‘s struggles to believe Imogen could possibly know what she is talking about during her own queer self discovery.
This would be such a great book for anyone who just graduated from high school or will be graduating from high school next year or is in college or any transition time of their life where they might be trying to figure out who they are versus who society or their friends or family have told them they should be!
I don’t really know what to say about this book because it just hit. It was so good!! Imogen is going to college next year and she is so excited to go where her best friend lili is already. She can’t wait for the independence and opportunity to start college life with a group of friends that don’t know you as the cis/het number 1 ally! Which is what her other best friend Gretchen says she is! Or is she more than an ally…?
When her best friend lili tells her that she told her whole cool queer group of friends that her and Imogen dated in the past because she felt like she didn’t have the right to be in the queer community if she didn’t have any queer dating experience, Imogen finally is released from the constraint that her other best friend Gretchen (and her self) put on her to be number #1Ally. instead she get to take the time & space to really consider who Imogen does find attractive and what her sexuality actually is surrounded by people who already think and believe she is queer. Especially when her & Tessa’s friendship grows into something maybe more & how that makes her feel as a supposedly raging heterosexual.
It was a refreshing coming of age and finding yourself story with accepting parents and college community for the most part. also interestingly discussed a common queer community phenomenon that a lot of people have experience or noticed that goes beyond biphobia and into the sort of ritualistic hazing and the idea of “earning“ your place and a community through the same struggles that the current members were forced to go through to be in it! With her queer best friend Gretchen‘s struggles to believe Imogen could possibly know what she is talking about during her own queer self discovery.
This would be such a great book for anyone who just graduated from high school or will be graduating from high school next year or is in college or any transition time of their life where they might be trying to figure out who they are versus who society or their friends or family have told them they should be!