Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar

Rani Choudhury Must Die

Adiba Jaigirdar

Feiwel & Friends · Hardcover · November 12, 2024

Ex-best-friends-turned-rivals team up to beat and expose the guy they've been dating, in this sapphic coming-of-age story by the author of Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating, and perfect for fans of Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter!

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Who it’s for
A sapphic romance pairs science-competition rivalry with old hurt, new teamwork, and complicated feelings.
Themes
Sapphic romance, Family pressure, Colorism and sexism
Genres
YA Lesbian, YA Romance - LGBTQ+, Science & Tech for Teens

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Ex-best-friends-turned-rivals team up to beat and expose the guy they've been dating, in this sapphic coming-of-age story by the author of Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating, and perfect for fans of Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter! Meghna Rahman is tired of constantly being compared to her infuriatingly perfect ex best friend, Rani, who always makes it into the Young Scientist Exhibition.

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This year, Meghna is finally accepted into the competition. . .but she doesn't make it to the final round like her boyfriend Zak does. And, of course, perfect Rani does too. 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 act or how her parents encourage her to date close family friend Zak. She would much rather focus on her coding, especially once she's chosen to compete in the European Young Scientist Exhibition (EYSE). 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 EYSE 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 they start to go from rivals to friends and realize their feelings may be even more than platonic... This is a book of fiction, but it deals with real issues including instances of colorism, sexism, cheating and cheating partners.

Rivals, Rebooted

A sapphic romance pairs science-competition rivalry with old hurt, new teamwork, and complicated feelings.

Come here for

  • Ex-best-friends teaming up around coding, competition, and a cheating boyfriend
  • Rivals-to-friends chemistry with a sapphic coming-of-age thread

Expect

  • Romantic comedy alongside pressure around family, dating, and ambition
  • Colorism, sexism, and cheating addressed in the story

Where it sits

YA Lesbian61%
YA Romance - LGBTQ+56%
Science & Tech for Teens22%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Romance - LGBTQ+
  • Science & Tech for Teens
Authors
Adiba Jaigirdar
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Published
November 12, 2024
Format
Hardcover
Theme
Sapphic romance · Family pressure · Colorism and sexism
Reading lane
YA Romance - LGBTQ+