![]() Oh my god there were so many references to ATLA and I was living for it! This was such a love letter to all things nerd and specifically Avatar: the Last Airbender. This was such a fast past book and the time frame of ~24 hours only added to it. I loved seeing them get to know each other past the friendly school acquaintances. Sunny and Mindii were so cute and so fun together. The two end up on a whirlwind all night adventure. But when Mindii steals his notebook, he has to go after her. He kicks this off by showing up to his high school Prom instead of going to the big fandom event with his best friend Ngozi and playing in their band. To do this he's determined to make several rash decisions since his brother was always more impulsive than him. The only thing he has left is his brother's notebook and he decides he needs to be more like him. Sunny has decided to reinvent himself after the death of his brother. Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions takes place in the course of one 24 hour ish period. This was such a great story, very heartwarming. Thank you to Penguin Teen and Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review. Much love to all my readers and a big thank you to everyone for reading my book (or attempting to!). I really hope readers connect with it and its nerdiness. It's beautiful and it's printed and done. Okay, I'd probably change some of the punctuation lol. I wouldn't change a comma even if I could. I know there will be readers who wish this was a different kind of book: with more kissing and romance, less kissing and less romance, faster paced, slower paced, less grief, more grief, lighter, heavier, funnier, serious, not set in Fresno, not so sweary.īut this is the book I wrote. I know I've done everything I wanted to do with this book, from the messaging to the pacing to the characters to the plot to the gabillion airbender jokes. My job as a writer is done and now I am on to my next story. and now as an adult.Īs much as I love this story, it's not going to be everyone's cuppa tea. It's the type of rep I would have loved to see on my bookshelf as a teen. He is a confident crocheting nerd who stutters, is Sikh, plays guitar in a heavy metal cosplay band, is very overthinky, and way cooler than I will ever be. Sunny is filled with elements of the unknown. I was very disappointed when I finally ate clotted cream because of how much I had dramatized it in my head, haha). I grew up reading Russian and British and Australian and American books with a LOT of unfamilliar references (a Christmas ham you say?). Not just because it's about Sikh protagonist who stutters and questions his faith, but because it's a really fun story with intelligent teenagers tackling complex issues.Īs a third culture kid, I am most at home with the unfamilliar. ![]() This is the book I would have loved to have read as a teenager. An extra star for my team who supported me in defanging the HP references and indulged me while I created a fantasy map for the seven sentences referencing the made up fandom like I'm Stephanie Garber or Sabaa Tahir lol. I love everything about it, from the multilingual jokes to the way death and grief and alcoholism are discussed, the pure chaos and joy of cosplay and fandoms, and all the people who populate this book, especially Sunny, Mindii, Goldy, Ngozi, and Biji. Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions is my debut YA novel and I am immensely proud of it. My liver, or in Farsi, my Golden Liver lol. I've given myself five stars because this story has a piece of my soul, or as we say in Punjabi, mera jigar. When Sunny chases after her, prom turns into an all-night adventure-a night full of rash, wonderful, romantic, stupid, life-changing decisions.Ĭontent Warnings: While the exoskeleton is filled with cosplay and a fun 24 hour prom night adventure, there are discussions of grief, alcoholism, ableism with Sunny's stutter, death of a sibling and grandmother, bullying, racism, and swearing in multiple languages. An experience that's starting to look like a bust.Įnter Mindii Vang, a girl with a penchant for making rash decisions of her own, starting with stealing Sunny's notebook. He's skipping the big fandom party-the one where he'd normally be in full cosplay, up on stage playing bass with his band and his best friend, Ngozi-in favor of the Very Important Prom Experience. Sunny debuts his new look at prom, which he's stuck going to alone. Even his cosplay doesn't look right without his beard. Decision number one was a big one: He stopped wearing his turban, cut off his hair, and shaved his beard. Sunny G's brother left him one thing when he died: His notebook, which Sunny is determined to fill up with a series of rash decisions. For fans of Sandhya Menon and Adam Silvera, a prom-night romantic-comedy romp about a Sikh teen's search for love and identity
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |