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Reviewed by: Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum Natalie Berglind Shrum, Brianna R. Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl; written by Brianna R. Shrum and Sara Waxelbaum. Inkyard, 2023 [304p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781335453655 $19.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780369735065 $9.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 9-12 One fateful spin-the-bottle kiss with another girl has Margo Zimmerman dumping her quarterback boyfriend in search of the lesbian unknown. She has little reference in how to be gay, but she’s an excellent student, and as an autistic person she’s used to manually cracking social codes. Abbie Sokoloff, meanwhile, has been loudly and proudly out as bi for years and happens to be failing AP US History. So when Margo approaches Abbie to demand lessons in “Queer 101,” Abbie asks Margo for tutoring in return. The framework is set up for genre-savvy romance readers to watch these two gals turn their rocky start into a slow-building romance, full of teasing, flirting that’s just for practice (or not), and denials of obvious romantic signs. It quickly becomes apparent that there’s no right way to be gay, and even Abbie falls victim to certain assumptions, like that Margo doesn’t exude lesbianism with her femme presentation. In spite of this, not every stereotype is debunked, and the characters’ personalities sometimes come off as two-dimensional, especially illuminated with a cartoonish, biphobic lesbian villain of a best friend that Abbie clings to for no seeming reason. Still, the romance is plenty of fun, approaching rom-com territory while addressing the struggles of queer teen-hood, and readers interested in watching a Jewish lesbian and a Jewish bisexual girl falling in love have quite the indulgence ahead of them. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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