Our Own Private Universe: A Sapphic YA Coming-of-Age Story of Bisexual Identity and Love

I don't know how to rate this book... I try not to do reviews on my phone because, typos, but I don't feel like I should wait. First thing I liked, the diversity. The main character was WOC, but she was one of the only ones according to her own perspective in her life. She was a bisexual in a f/f relationship. There was Madison another all out gay female and proud. The book is based in Mexico so a few Latina side characters. I mean it was all over the place with character types. Second thing, the family relationship was close, and her dad was a good dad. Now here's the things I didn't like, or felt weird about. It's set in Mexico on a church mission trip where a group of boys only went to get drunk, and a lot of sex gets had? No.... I've been on a mission trip to Mexico and I don't care if the chaperone kid ratio is 5/100 that's still not something that actually happens, in normal churches. Boys and girls don't sleep in one room together with sleeping bags on the floor with no adult supervision. No children sneak off to the woods to drink and have sex because there's absolutely no adult supervision. I had this issue with Talley's last book, it's fictional but think about setting. Also there were some things said about black people to black people that just didn't feel right, like black people oppose gay marriage? Who says that to a black person? The book is set in Mexico and none of the characters speak Spanish hardly. I don't know. She gives it this church background and makes it seems super important but never actually puts anything in the book making it seem like the main character is faithful. Also the petty drama and lying just got to be to much for me. The garbage with her best friend made me super angry, who lies about that? Then Aki the MC lies the entire time to Christa about the stupidest stuff. Also how Aki treats Christa is kind of awful. She can't help how her parents act. Anyways, over all it wasn't for me. I loved the characters and concept but sadly it kind of failed in every other aspect.

The writing is a little simpler than Georgia Peaches but the feels! I liked the main character quite a lot. The Spanish though, I don’t understand and am glad there was only a tiny bit of it scattered throughout.

With a title that references  My Own Private Idaho , a movie about a gay male hustler, the topic of sexuality is given away right from the start. Aki is a girl who’s bisexual—she thinks. Her sexual orientation plays a large part in this novel. But the other aspects of her world—fumbling through Spanish, dealing with her disinterest in continuing her music, hiding secrets (her own and other people’s)—form an equally significant portion of her summer.Ms. Tallyn’s writing is superb. For a book that spans only one season, this one runs the gamut. The author is adept at giving us not only Aki’s thoughts but the behavior and inner workings of everyone around her.But it’s Aki’s relationship with Christa that forms the large part of this novel. Aki thinks she can keep this as a summer fling, that she can experience Christa and satisfy her curiosity about her own sexuality without heartbreak. Of course, we suspect that it won’t be as easy as all that. The complexity of sexuality and its fluidity are subjects that Aki wrestles with and the passages in which she tries to sort out her own feelings are at once hilarious and frustrating.She’s only a teenager which compounds her own confusion. Still sorting her place in the world, her mixed-up feelings aren’t helped by the fact that her sexuality falls outside of what is considered heteronormative. Part of the problem is that Aki has no one she can really talk to about the subject. By the time she does find a suitably willing ear and mouth to give advice, the summer is practically over and she’s left to her own devices again.This is a terrific story about sex, sexuality, religion, foreign relations and the other contemporary issues. It’s head and shoulders above typical YA fare and therefore suitable for adolescents and adults.

Das Buch kam unbeschädigt bei mir an.Die Zielgruppe dieses Buches sind definitiv Teenager, jedoch bin ich der Meinung, dass es auch für Erwachsene geeignet ist.Das Buch dreht sich um Aki, ein jugendliches Mädchen, welches versucht ihren Platz in dieser Welt zu finden. Obwohl sie weiß, dass sie sowohl Mädchen, als auch Jungs mag, ist dies trotzdem alles verwirrend für sie. Vor allem da sie noch nie ein Mädchen geküsst hat.Diesen Sommer ist sie in Mexico im mit ihrer Kirchengruppe um bei einem Freiwilligen Projekt zu helfen und entscheidet, dass sie diesen Sommer alles nachholen wird. Sie und ihre beste Freundin beschließen eine Sommerromanze zu finden.Wenn sie Christa kennen lernt, schwirren viele Fragen durch ihren Kopf: Was sagt man zu einem Mädchen, welches man mag, wenn man selber ein Mädchen ist? Werden mein Eltern mich akzeptieren? Heißt das, dass ich jetzt keine Jungs mehr mag? Und viele mehr.Und sie versucht alles herauszufinden und vor allem herauszufinden wer sie selber ist.Das Buch ist eine gute Darstellung, wie sich LGBTQ* Teenager fühlen. Deshalb finde ich, dass vor allem Jugendliche von diesem Buch sehr profitieren können. Zudem ist die Story sehr süß.Ich würde das Buch weiter empfehlen.

Very happy with the book

No me gustó desde la primer página pero tenía curiosidad de si mejoraba según avanzaba la historia, pero sólo fue peor

Chegou bem rápido, boa entrega e preço