Leah on the Offbeat - Becky Albertalli

Leah on the Offbeat

By Becky Albertalli

  • Release Date: 2018-04-24
  • Genre: Romance for Young Adults
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 234 Ratings
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Description

#1 New York Times bestseller! Goodreads Choice Award for the best young adult novel of the year!

In this sequel to the acclaimed Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—now a major motion picture, Love, Simon—we follow Simon’s BFF Leah as she grapples with changing friendships, 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.

She’s an anomaly in her friend group: 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.

Plus don't miss Yes No Maybe So, Becky Albertalli's and Aisha Saeed's heartwarming and hilarious new novel, coming in 2020! 

Reviews

  • Who is this book for?

    2
    By Kiwi Tealc
    Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I really don’t understand who this book is for. Since it’s about high schoolers, I would assume it’s for high schoolers. But it really doesn’t seem appropriate for them. It’s somewhat overly sexual at points, and the language is just awful. I don’t know if high school kids really swear that much, but they certainly shouldn’t read books with this much swearing. Maybe it’s for adults? But most adults don’t really want to read about kids hooking up. And all the language and slang used is really really Gen Z, or at least it’s trying to be. Leah is pretty insufferable. She dislikes everybody for no real reason and just thinks she’s better than everyone else. I get that she is pretty relatable at times, but her character doesn’t ever really develop. She becomes moderately more nice to her mom’s boyfriend but that’s about it. Her own flaws don’t really get addressed, she just has people in her life who like her despite those flaws. The ending is a little disappointing. I mean poor Garrett, he’s the most likable person in the book and he just gets forgotten. And then to set him up with Morgan? The girl who apologizes off screen and then never gets another line. Have kids these days ever read anything other than Harry Potter or watched anything other than Doctor Who? I like both, but having the references shoved down my throat every other page was tiring.

  • Really relatable

    5
    By ::::://
    The book was very good. It had me wondering what would happen next and as a bisexual girl who is also heading to college it really connected.

  • Didn’t care much for it

    3
    By EpicallyTasha
    I was really excited to read this book because I saw the movie Love, Simon and read the book and loved it. Leah for me was such a hard character to like. I finished the book because I paid for but it was so hard for me to even do that. I finished the book and my only thought was, “Is a refund possible???”

  • this cute af

    5
    By oh worm
    i cried

  • Love it!!

    5
    By ??!??😜😝😜😝
    This book was sooooooo amazing!! I definitely would recommend it to about anyone!

  • Would Read Again❤️

    5
    By romancelover218
    I really loved Becky albertalli’s new book not only was it addicting but relatable in more ways than one.❤️💚💛💜💙🧡😍

  • Fung e UCB

    5
    By krrcrehi rhiumred
    Greatlyiivik

  • THE. BEST. THING. EVER.

    5
    By sarah20;)
    This book is absolutely beautiful. It was wonderfully narrated by the fascinating Leah, and we learn all about her personal problems that she doesn’t really talk to her friends about, we see everything through her perspective and we see the world through her own eyes. Becky never fails to make me fall in love with every book she writes. I absolutely love the way this book was written, it’s just so easy to read and take everything in but still keep you interested throughout the whole thing, so is the rest of her work. I definitely recommend this book to e v e r y o n e, plus if you like/are a queer lady, you get a wonderful ending *evil laughter* hehe, you’re going to love this book!

  • Amazing

    5
    By Sgoalie1
    This book is incredible and well written. As a gay girl that happens to be 15 there are not many gay or lesbian relationships in the books about high school today. Becky Albertali is an amazing author and I am so happy that she made this book. I hope she comes out with another one because I will be the first to buy it.

  • UgHHH IM CRYING

    5
    By camila4904
    It’s so well written and tackles serious issues. Also I am shook. Ugh, I can’t explain it, but read this book. I promise you won’t regret it.

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