Odd One Out

"In Odd One Out, Nic Stone shows generations of teen dramas all the fun they could have had if only they had been less heteronormative. She gives us Coop, an adorable 16-year old basketball player, male cheerleader and utter lummox, who’s either in love with his lifelong best friend Jupiter Charity-Sanchez, noted lesbian, or Rae Evelyn Chin, the new cheerleader/science geek who has dazzled both of them – and isn’t sure which of them she prefers. Their story is warm, intoxicating and surprisingly emotionally resonant, and told in turn from each of the three characters in perfectly executed first-person perspective – I couldn’t put it down, and I doubt you’ll be able to resist it either."