That was... not great for me. 
 I was thrown off by so many POVs at first, then got used to it, then got annoyed switching around the whole time. It's interesting getting the story of Gabe and Lea from different perspectives and how so many pieces of their lives end up overlapping, but I think it could have been done with a whole lot less perspectives than fourteen. For example: the bench? The Squirrel? Even the bus driver I sort of ended up glossing over. Fourteen is too many. Each person had their own pieces of their lives detailed in their perspectives but it was never enough to make them a part of the story and when their personal pieces were mentioned, it took away from Gabe and Lea. I felt like they either needed to be total, pure observers or actually a part of the story. 
 I felt like I didn't get enough character development without the POVs of Gabe and Lea themselves. And that didn't HAVE to be the case. I'm sure it could have worked somehow where I felt more connected to them, even not getting a direct view point from them, but it just didn't. I felt disconnected and as annoyed as Victor was. And let me tell you, when you're annoyed and reading from the POV of a character who is annoyed, that only exacerbates the little things that irritate you. 
 And Gabe and Lea SHEESH. I understand they have their own hangups and yes, it's possible to see people take the whole school year to get together but ENOUGH with the shyness. I couldn't stand it anymore. I'm a sort of shy person (or at least I used to be) but that was too much. At a certain point in time, you just go for it. Or you drop it. The book essentially had the two characters going back and forth between the two opposite ends of the spectrum and it wasn't so much of a cute coincidence so much as too many time they almost said their feelings to one another and didn't. 
 The pop culture references were cute but I felt like there were too many times where a character said, "Wait, isn't that basically the plot of such-and-such?" Cute to reference it but then the author is just taking plots that already exist, reminding readers that this has already been done before, and then sticking them in the book. It made it feel unoriginal and that there were too many things just being borrowed from other movies and TV shows that already existed. 
 I was hoping this would be cute but it just really didn't do it for me. Instead of wanting to smoosh Gabe and Lea together, I just got mad that they were SO awkward and SO shy. It was cute at one point in time but then it seemed to quickly snap back out into just plain awkward territory. And I did not get to the POV of the bench and the squirrel at all. Some might think it was cute but it felt... ugh, I don't want to use the word lazy, but I felt like those moments could have been fit into someone else's POV so I wasn't reading from the POV of an inanimate object and an animal. *shrug* 
 Formal review originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide: Well. A LITTLE SOMETHING DIFFERENT was just that. Fourteen POVs!!! Holy cow. I had confidence that Swoon Reads picked a good one though so I dove in headfirst hoping that everything would just work itself out and it would be the cute, adorable read I hoped it would be. It did have it's moments but ultimately, A LITTLE SOMETHING DIFFERENT just didn't work for me. 
 Firstly, FOURTEEN POVs. I'm fairly good at juggling POVs (see: A Song of Ice and Fire) and thankfully all of the different voices in A LITTLE SOMETHING DIFFERENT were very distinct so even though there were so many, it really wasn't hard to follow along and skip around. The issue that I had, though, was that fourteen was simply too many for a few different reasons. Some of the POVs just weren't necessary. There are truly, honestly, POVs from a park bench and a squirrel in the quad. Okay... could have been cute... but it really just didn't work for me and instead added a cheese factor instead of being cute, it was just too cutesy and prevented me from taking the book seriously. 
 Another reason the sheer number of POVs didn't work for me was that I wasn't entirely sure what the purpose was of having those other people show the story of Gabe and Lea. It's a great concept, but I couldn't never quite connect with the story because I wasn't sure what I was supposed to focus on. Obviously the main plot of the book is Gabe & Lea's love story, but the reader is also given a little personal history and connection to the character who is telling the story at that given time. The problem with that is that no POV lasted long enough for me to really connect with that character so instead of it feeling like I was getting a character's backstory, I felt like I was wasting my time with these little things about someone I ultimately would not have time to get to know. Instead of adding to the story, they really took something away because I felt like skipping over the backstories since they were essentially irrelevant. 
 Finally, I felt like I just wasn't able to make that connection with Gabe and Lea because there were too many people telling their story. I don't really have issues when the main characters are actually not the main POVs, but I think there were too many mixed opinions of the two of them to really figure out who they actually were. Only one of these narrators really knew the characters well (Gabe's brother) and the rest of them were varying degrees of intimate knowledge ranging down to them being downright strangers. The narrators didn't know enough about them to really give the readers enough information about their lives. There were a few moments that I thought were truly adorable and I was interested in what I might discover about Gabe and Lea, but ultimately it was just too hard to connect. (There was also one specific line from the teacher that really, REALLY turned me off and that's when I really felt like the "pushing these two together" plot just went TOO far.) 
 What I did see of them... Well, it bothered me. I can totally understand being shy, especially around a crush or a new person or that person being both a crush and new, but this went on for months in the book. I'm not saying that never happens, but especially in college, I feel like people start to break out of their shells just a little bit more. Even their friends were really, really trying to push them together and Gabe and Lea just kept shying away or sabotaging themselves (which on a total side note, I realized that the two of these things to an extreme extent is something that really turns me off to a book -- it's happened before to cause a disconnect for me) so I just got frustrated with the pair instead of feeling like I wanted them to get together. 
 And finally, the pop culture references were really hit-or-miss with me. It wasn't even that it was a reference that I didn't connect to -- I didn't feel alienated because I didn't understand the Buffy reference, for example -- but it was the fact that there was definitely one too many times where a character made a statement about something they wanted to happen between Gabe and Lea or in their lives and the character basically says, "Wait, isn't that the plot of such-and-such?" It was cute at first but when it happens two or three or four times, I started to get upset. There were a few specific instances that were borrowed from pop culture and yes, I know that many stories will be similar and not everything can be 100% unique, but I felt like it was one too many to use as a direct scene for the book. I feel like it's okay to love a specific scene and sort of adapt it to fit the book so you can include something you love in your writing, but change it up! Don't make it that exact scene from Glee or 10 Things I Hate About You and then have your characters reference it. It made me feel like these scenes weren't original at all.