If You Still Recognize Me Review
If You Still Recognize Me by Cynthia So is about Elsie--an 18 year old young woman who gets the most unexpected summer of her life before college. She has a crush on a friend that she met online who is a fanfiction writer of her favorite comic series--Eden Recoiling. The friend's name is Ada, and Elsie wants to confess her feelings for her, but she doesn't know how.
Ada also tells Elsie a story of a woman named Theresa Bennett that her (Ada's) grandmother named Rebecca knew when she still lived in the UK. Apparently, the two women were really close friends, and Rebecca developed some romantic feelings for her, but then Rebecca moved to the US after getting married to Ada's grandfather. The two women still communicated through letters, but one day, the letters stopped coming. Rebecca still thinks about Theresa from time to time, and would like to reunite with her. Ada sends Elsie Rebecca's letters from Theresa, and decides to go on a quest to find Theresa and surprise Ada.
Then all of a sudden, Elsie's childhood friend Joan--whom she hadn't heard from in years-- waltzes back into her life. Joan moved to Hong Kong when she was eleven, and has moved back to England to go to college and to meet Elsie again. She explains to Elsie why she didn't answer any of emails and letters. Then Elsie realizes she has started to develop feelings for Joan that go beyond a platonic friendship, but she does not know how to say it to her.
Well, like I said, it's a story full of surprises about Elsie's friends and even family!
This book was just so perfect. It was literally everything I liked seeing in a YA contemporary romance book. There is so much queer representation (Elsie is bi, Joan is lesbian, a new friend of Elsie's, a guy named Felix, is asexual, etc.). I also learned a lot about Hong Kong's culture along the way!
It was a perfect 5 star book. Go read it!
What was your last five star book?
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