Jaigirdar, Adiba
9781250842084, 1250842085
Hardcover with dust jacket
This sapphic dual POV Young Adult romance by Adiba Jaigirdar and perfect for fans of Kelly Quindlen’s She Drives Me Crazy follows two Bangladeshi Irish girls who, once they realize they're dating the same guy, team up to beat and expose him at a big science competition!
Meghna Rahman is tired of constantly being compared to her infuriatingly perfect childhood best friend turned rival. Everyone, including her own parents, seems to think that Rani can do no wrong – except, at least, Meghna’s wonderful boyfriend, Zak. It doesn’t help that Rani is always accepted into their region’s Young Scientist Exhibition, while Meghna’s projects never make it. Until this year. Now, Meghna finally has a chance at defeating Rani.
Rani Choudhury is tired of feeling like she doesn’t have much say in her life – not when it comes to how her mom wants her to dress or how her parents want her to date close family friend Zak. Zak is incredibly charming and can do no wrong in her parents’ eyes but she doesn’t quite feel that way about him, even though they’ve been dating for a long time now. Rani would much rather focus on her coding, especially once she places high enough at the Young Scientist Exhibition to go on to the European Young Scientist Exhibition in Amsterdam. Too bad, her ex friend, Meghna, didn’t place and now Meghna seems to hate her even more, for some reason.
When Meghna and Rani figure out that Zak has been playing them both, they decide to do something no one would see coming: they team up. They’ll compete in the European Young Scientist Exhibition in Amsterdam as partners, creating an app that exposes cheaters and a project that exposes Zak. But with years of silence and pressure between them, working together will prove difficult. Especially once each girl starts to realize that the tension between them all these years may have been of a different kind. A romantic kind…
Hey, no one ever said science was easy!
Using heroines in STEM, Adiba Jaigirdar once again mixes swoony rivals-to-lovers romance, competition, and dual perspectives in this story which asks the question: what if the hit movie John Tucker Must Die was sapphic?
