True to the name, “A Little Something Different” by Sandy Hall is definitely something different—in the cutest of ways.

Gabe and Lea are both college students in the same creative writing class. There is an obvious mutual attraction between the two, but they are painfully shy and won’t do anything about it.

The book revolved around their school year, as told by fourteen different point-of-views. Yes, fourteen, including their creative writing professor, a bus driver, a waitress, a Starbucks barista, a squirrel and bench (my personal favorites), and many of their friends.

At first, I wasn’t quite sure what to think of fourteen different perspectives. I’ve read books with three or four perspectives in the past and I haven’t always been a fan, but this just really worked for me.

Each point of view was like a short, sweet little snippet into Gabe and Lea’s lives. At times, I did find it a little bit odd how obsessed these random people were about getting the two together, but that’s another element that just made the story work.

A slight qualm I had with the book was the amount of consistency errors I found. These weren’t huge issues, but I noticed that at one point the squirrel mentioned that he wished he “knew human” so he could understand what Lea was saying, but at other times the author wrote as if the squirrel understood what Lea was saying.

There were other smaller ones too, like saying that someone had called when in the previous paragraph they had actually been texting. However, these consistency errors were few and far between, and they didn’t really distract much from the story itself.

One of my favorite aspects, however, had to be the dialogue. The characters’ voices were very strong and I had a good grasp of who they were as soon as I read their first point-of-view. There were many times when I was literally laughing out loud because of something a character did or said.

The other aspect I loved was finding out why Gabe acted they way he did. I won’t ruin the intrigue by saying what happened to him, but it sure does make you think about how you should treat others before you know them well.

“A Little Something Different” was also impressively diverse with its inclusion of multicultural main characters and various sexual orientations—something that does not get brought up in young adult fiction (YA) often. Readers who are passionate about diversity in YA will definitely be pleased with this book.

Despite the ending being a bit cliché and anticlimactic, it was such an adorable and light read that I’m finding it difficult to give this any lower than four stars. This was a perfect read just in time for Valentine’s Day. Even if you’re not into the whole lovey-dovey scene, it’s still an entertaining read, and a quick pick-me-up between books with heavier content.