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Andrea Mosqueda: Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster (2022, Feiwel & Friends) 4 stars

In this voice-driven debut YA novel, Maggie Gonzales has to choose between three possible dates—her …

Very bisexual. Very amusing. Very cliché. I feel seen in my disastrosity.

What's disturbing though, is all the coercive mononormativity in the book. Not only is dating them all not seen as an option, but the protagonist is punished for having had feelings for three people in the first place, and agrees with it, talks herself into believing she didn't actually have the feelings, when it's clear she did. This is disappointing, specifically because other aspects of amatonormativity are deconstructed very well.