Gia's Reviews > Look Both Ways

I wish I could give this book zero stars. With the title Look Both Ways, the cover being two girls giggling and the inside flap describing a friendship turning into something more, it seemed like a cute love story about queer ladies. Oh, how wrong I was. This shouldn't even be categorized as queer fiction. (SPOILERS FROM HERE!) Of the two main characters, we have Zoe, who's attracted to women and in an open relationship with a boy, and Brooklyn, who's Finding Herself. Long story short, we never get confirmation on the open relationship and Zoe gets dodgy when her boyfriend is around, which seemed to hint at her cheating. Surprise! A cheating bisexual character! How original! And Brooklyn, after spending most of the novel falling in love with Zoe, suddenly realizes she's not attracted to girls, breaks Zoe's heart and ends up with the boy. Surprise! Another heterosexual couple! How original again! On top of all of this, the writing was mediocre at best. I only pushed through because I thought it would end nicely. Yawn.