In this voice-driven young adult debut by Andrea Mosqueda, Maggie Gonzalez needs a date to her sister's quinceañera - and fast.
Growing up in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but she’s okay with that. After all, she has a great family, a goofy group of friends, a rocky romantic history, and dreams of being a music photographer. Tasked with picking an escort for her little sister’s quinceañera, Maggie has to face the truth: that her feelings about her friends—and her future—aren’t as simple as she’d once believed.
As Maggie’s search for the perfect escort continues, she’s forced to confront new (and old) feelings for three of her friends: Amanda, her best friend and first-ever crush; Matthew, her ex-boyfriend twice-over who refuses to stop flirting with her, and Dani, the new girl who has romantic baggage of her own. On top of this romantic disaster, she can’t stop thinking about the uncertainty of her own plans for the future and what that means for the people she loves.
As the weeks wind down and the boundaries between friendship and love become hazy, Maggie finds herself more and more confused with each photo. When her tried-and-true medium causes more chaos than calm, Maggie needs to figure out how to avoid certain disaster—or be brave enough to dive right into it, in Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster.
Teens & YA
Publication Date: 24 May 2022
My Review:
5 Stars: Navigating your sexuality is a lot of guessing, overstressing, and being out of your depth, and Andrea Mosqueda shows that magnificently tortuous unpredictability on paper. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster explores the messy, scary process of becoming yourself. Showing us that we must lose pieces of ourselves in the process to grow to our full potential. Those pieces were never meant for us in the first place, and it's okay to be disappointed that someone didn't turn out to be the person we needed. We are not a maybe. We are not an unsure decision, an option, a choice, or a chore. We never ask too much; we were just asking the wrong person, and feeling sad after making that decision doesn't mean it was terrible. Because heartache comes and goes, relationships are messy, complicated, and an overall disaster. We deserve someone who wants the chaotic, the hard, not just when it's fun or convenient, we deserve someone who chooses us when it might not be the easy choice, and we deserve someone who would instead do chores with us than anything with someone else. Because at the end of the day, if they wanted to make a grand gesture, they would.
Maggie is navigating her bisexuality in a true love triangle with both sexes. She has her ex twice over Mathew, who still flirts with her, her best friend and first girl crush Amanda, and the new emo wild girl Dani. Throughout the novel, you watch how Maggie tries to figure out the complicated process of relationships, what is too much, what to give when it gives it, and when it pulls back. Not all relationships have a romantic level with them to have love involved. True friends will be there no matter what, and sometimes you must fall down to learn what is really important to you. Lying is never the right choice, and we should never stop trying to fix ourselves. Reading this, songs jumped out of the page at me, and by the end of the book, I had a playlist of over 100 songs. I dwindled it down to 33, which I feel gives the vibe of the book.
Best part of this was the reference to The Legend of Korra which I will now be watching all weekend and reconfirming my bisexuality.
The books relationships in songs
Maggie & Matthew: Meant to Be by Ber & Charlie Orain
Maggie & Amanda: Here With You by Marshmello & CHVRCHES
Maggie & Dani: Emo Girl by Machine Gun Kelly & Willow
Thank you to FierceReads, Andrea Mosqueda, and ColorpageBlogTours for this gifted book in exchange for my honest review.
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HARDCOVER COST
E-BOOK COST
AUTHOR
Andrea Mosqueda is a Chicana writer. She was born and raised in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her partner and works in the publishing industry as an assistant editor. When she’s not writing or editing, she can be found doing her makeup, drinking too much coffee, and angsting over children’s media. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster is her first book.
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Publishers is a global trade publishing company operating in over 70 countries, with imprints in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and India. Macmillan is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster
In this voice-driven young adult debut by Andrea Mosqueda, Maggie Gonzalez needs a date to her sister's quinceañera - and fast.
Growing up in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but she’s okay with that. After all, she has a great family, a goofy group of friends, a rocky romantic history, and dreams of being a music photographer. Tasked with picking an escort for her little sister’s quinceañera, Maggie has to face the truth: that her feelings about her friends—and her future—aren’t as simple as she’d once believed.
As Maggie’s search for the perfect escort continues, she’s forced to confront new (and old) feelings for three of her friends: Amanda, her best friend and first-ever crush; Matthew, her ex-boyfriend twice-over who refuses to stop flirting with her, and Dani, the new girl who has romantic baggage of her own. On top of this romantic disaster, she can’t stop thinking about the uncertainty of her own plans for the future and what that means for the people she loves.
As the weeks wind down and the boundaries between friendship and love become hazy, Maggie finds herself more and more confused with each photo. When her tried-and-true medium causes more chaos than calm, Maggie needs to figure out how to avoid certain disaster—or be brave enough to dive right into it, in Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster.
Teens & YA
Publication Date: 24 May 2022
My Review:
5 Stars: Navigating your sexuality is a lot of guessing, overstressing, and being out of your depth, and Andrea Mosqueda shows that magnificently tortuous unpredictability on paper. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster explores the messy, scary process of becoming yourself. Showing us that we must lose pieces of ourselves in the process to grow to our full potential. Those pieces were never meant for us in the first place, and it's okay to be disappointed that someone didn't turn out to be the person we needed. We are not a maybe. We are not an unsure decision, an option, a choice, or a chore. We never ask too much; we were just asking the wrong person, and feeling sad after making that decision doesn't mean it was terrible. Because heartache comes and goes, relationships are messy, complicated, and an overall disaster. We deserve someone who wants the chaotic, the hard, not just when it's fun or convenient, we deserve someone who chooses us when it might not be the easy choice, and we deserve someone who would instead do chores with us than anything with someone else. Because at the end of the day, if they wanted to make a grand gesture, they would.
Maggie is navigating her bisexuality in a true love triangle with both sexes. She has her ex twice over Mathew, who still flirts with her, her best friend and first girl crush Amanda, and the new emo wild girl Dani. Throughout the novel, you watch how Maggie tries to figure out the complicated process of relationships, what is too much, what to give when it gives it, and when it pulls back. Not all relationships have a romantic level with them to have love involved. True friends will be there no matter what, and sometimes you must fall down to learn what is really important to you. Lying is never the right choice, and we should never stop trying to fix ourselves. Reading this, songs jumped out of the page at me, and by the end of the book, I had a playlist of over 100 songs. I dwindled it down to 33, which I feel gives the vibe of the book.
Best part of this was the reference to The Legend of Korra which I will now be watching all weekend and reconfirming my bisexuality.
The books relationships in songs
Maggie & Matthew: Meant to Be by Ber & Charlie Orain
Maggie & Amanda: Here With You by Marshmello & CHVRCHES
Maggie & Dani: Emo Girl by Machine Gun Kelly & Willow
Thank you to FierceReads, Andrea Mosqueda, and ColorpageBlogTours for this gifted book in exchange for my honest review.
PRINT LENGTH PAGES
AVERAGE REVIEW RATING
HARDCOVER COST
E-BOOK COST
AUTHOR
Andrea Mosqueda is a Chicana writer. She was born and raised in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her partner and works in the publishing industry as an assistant editor. When she’s not writing or editing, she can be found doing her makeup, drinking too much coffee, and angsting over children’s media. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster is her first book.
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Publishers is a global trade publishing company operating in over 70 countries, with imprints in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and India. Macmillan is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
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