This is such a needed book! And knowing Becky Albertalli's history with queerness and coming to terms with her sexuality as an adult and being forced out, you can tell this book is a personal one for her, but it will be for many people.

What it's about:
Imogen's finally visiting her bestfriend Lili at college. But Lili has told her queer group of friends that she and Imogen used to date. Which is not true. Because Imogen is straight. The biggest ally you'll ever meet. But she's straight. Right?
When she arrives on campus she pretends to be queer to help her friend. But she's also getting really close to Lili's friend Tessa, so close that she starts feeling things she never knew she could. And she starts questioning if she's ever really been straight at all.

My thoughts:
Like I said, this is a much needed story. About taking your time with figuring yourself out, about friendships and not following societal rules and stereotypes, about being OK with taking up the space you need to take up.
I loved the whole coming to terms with being queer, being unsure, being OK with taking things slowly and wanting to just be OK with feeling whatever you feel without having to specifically define it just yet.
Imogen is surrounded by queer people. Lovely queer friends and family as well as biased hurtful queer people. Just diverse queer people being people, being young adults. Sometimes being imperfect but trying to make it right.

This book just felt like a big hug to anyone who isn't sure, who feels like they shouldn't take up space, who doesn't have everything pinpointed yet. It's a book that tells you you're perfect just the way you are and you are so very welcome here.

Can we use the term "coming of queer" instead of talking of "coming of age"? Like age of what? There is no age for learning and growing and coming into yourself. You can do that at all ages. 

 
Small asexual rant / rambling thoughts:
Personally, I would have liked to see asexuality mentioned at least once (we only hear it once when a friend says she's panromantic and ace).
When I was reading Imogen's thoughts, her struggles to understand what "being attracted" meant, her talking about how she was sort of straight by default because she never really thought of girls "that way"... It all made me think "Maybe you're on the ace spectrum, Imogen!!". Because your internal monologues and questioning very much ressembles mine as an ace person...
But that never crosses her mind. Either she's straight or she's bi. She never thinks about how attraction comes in different forms and maybe they're not all sexual. And Imogen thinks about her sexuality A LOT in this book (understandably). So how come that aspect of sexuality didn't come up? Especially for someone who seems to know so much about the queer community.
It particularly hurt when someone talks about attraction to girls like this : "do you want to fuck her? No? then you're straight". Given, that person is far from a good model in this story, people do say she talks shit. But that part of what she says isn't ever challenged or talked about again. That part about being sexually attracted to women will determine of you're sapphic ot not remains a thought that Imogen carries with her for the rest of the book. For many people, that actually works. But it is also aphobic and invalidates all the sapphic aces out there. One phrase challenging that thought could have done a lot of good.