Hey everyone! Today it’s time for another book review. Many of you will be excited to hear that this book is for teenagers and not for tweens/children. The book is Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. It’s quite a unique book for me because it’s the first LGBTQ book.
Name: Simon v.s. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Author: Becky Albertalli
A little fun fact is that this is Becky’s first ever book. It’s also available in French! This amazing book was published last year (2015)
# of pages: 303
My Rating: 6/5 stars (It was honestly that good)
Goodreads Rating: 4.3/5 stars
Amazon Rating: 4.7/5 stars
Amazon Summary:
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.
My Thoughts:
This book is amazing! It’s hard to believe this is Becky Albertalli’s debut novel! Like I mentioned above, this was my first LGBTQ novel and I’m very impressed! Simon Spier is so darn adorable. His email relationship with Blue is absolutely adorable. Everything about this book is just adorable. I’m not going to spoil who Blue is, but when you do find out it’s like… POW!
Following Simon through his journey in this book is absolutely amazing. I really want to say more but I don’t want to spoil anything.
If you enjoy adventurous, suspenseful and/or romantic books, this is for you!
For those who have read the book, I have some good news that you may or may not know. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda is going to be made into a movie!!!
They started working on it October of last year. There is no release date. Fox 2000 is going to produce it. Fox 2000 also produced book to film adaptions like Paper Towns and the Maze Runner.
That’s a wrap! Do you think you’ll read this book? If you’ve already read it, what are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more book reviews to come!
~Makayla the Bookworm 😀
Random Reads! 
Yes, I definitely want to read this book. I want to read as much LGBT fiction as possible. I haven’t bought it yet, but I will sometime this year.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the review!
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I’m glad, it’s a great book! After reading this, I definitely want to read more LGBTQ books. You’re so welcome.
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Yay, I’m so, so glad to hear you liked this book. It was so, so cute! I don’t know how I feel about it becoming a movie, though, but well I’m always nervous about this kind of stuff. Hopefully it turns out good! 🙂
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It was such an awesome book. Yeah, sometimes the movie can be absolutely terrible or amazing. I really hope they don’t mess it up!
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I loved this book so much. Like you wrote, everything about it is so adorable! And I didn’t know that they will make a movie also. Nice 🙂
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It is an amazing and adorable book! I didn’t know it was going to be made into a movie either. I was searching up some information about the book and I saw it said something about a movie. It should be coming out in a year or two hopefully.
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