It's Not Like It's a Secret -

Misa Sugiura

HarperTeen

2017

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-10: 0062473417

Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don’t invite her to parties. Some are big, like the fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there’s the one that she can barely even admit to herself—the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend.

When Sana and her family move to California, she begins to wonder if it’s finally time for some honesty, especially after she meets Jamie Ramirez. Jamie is beautiful and smart and unlike anyone Sana’s ever known. There are just a few problems: Sana's new friends don't trust Jamie's crowd; Jamie's friends clearly don't want her around anyway; and a sweet guy named Caleb seems to have more-than-friendly feelings for her. Meanwhile, her dad’s affair is becoming too obvious to ignore.

Sana always figured that the hardest thing would be to tell people that she wants to date a girl, but as she quickly learns, telling the truth is easy…what comes after it, though, is a whole lot more complicated.

Resenhas (11)

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This book started strong and cute. The first part was really good, but about halfway to the end, it took a turn. Everything started happening at once and not all of it was well developed so it got a bit chaotic. There were some parts that were left without a resolution and many moments between the Sana and Jamie happened during a time jump and we couldn't enjoy it.

The book does bring up extremely relevant topics like racism between different communities, I'm just not sure if it was done as well as it could have.

In conclusion, the story was very exciting during the first half but then it went downhill for a while and got a little bit better by the end.