I share her fear of social situation and parties. I loved the representation of Gabby’s social anxiety because it felt very similar to my own. It’s cute and it’s fun and it has some serious discussions about issues that I haven’t seen widely represented in YA. This is a book full of heart and heartbreak, friendship and romance. The novel begins with Ryan and Gabby hooking up shortly after their high school graduation and then jumps around to various major moments in their friendship. Top Ten is the story of Ryan and Gabby, who formed an unlikely friendship their freshman year of high school after they accidentally meet at a party. The overarching reason for my review of this book is that I personally did not connect with it, but I feel like I there’s a lot of good in it that I want to gush about. And yet, for me the spark just wasn’t there. It is told in the format of a top ten lis and in a non-linear format. The writing was good and the setting was lively. It has a cute, soft jock protagonist as well. It has a bisexual female protagonist with social anxiety that was the first representation of explicit social anxiety I have read in YA. This sums up my complicated feelings about Katie Cotugno’s newest novel Top Ten. I really liked it. However, I am also a bit tired of the childhood best friends falling in love trope. I love cute and fluffy books with a streak of dark. Top Ten by Katie Cotugno, Balzer & Bray, 320 pp.Ĭontent Warnings: social anxiety, brain injury & trauma, absentee parenting
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