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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
A lire et à relire !
Ce n'est pas du tout le genre de livre que j'ai l'habitude de lire pourtant j'ai été bluffé la première fois !
Le point de vue de la fille est écrit par une auteure, celui du garçon par un auteur. Pourtant, ça ne fait pas tâche et l'écriture est très fluide. D'ailleurs les héros n'en sont que plus réels. Un roman que je recommande pour les ados, mais aussi aux plus vieux si vous souhaitez revivre cette période de votre vie.
Rien n'est surfait, en trop, les personnages sont vrais et on s'y attache vite. Ce pourrait être des personnes que nous pourrions rencontrer en chair et en os.
Bref, un petit chef d’œuvre avec beaucoup d'humour, qui retrace l'histoire de la première fois, du premier amour, avec tous les doutes que cela peut receler : sans aucun cliché.
Ce n'est pas un énième roman sur ce sujet, c'est LE roman.
Ce n'est pas du tout le genre de livre que j'ai l'habitude de lire pourtant j'ai été bluffé la première fois !
Le point de vue de la fille est écrit par une auteure, celui du garçon par un auteur. Pourtant, ça ne fait pas tâche et l'écriture est très fluide. D'ailleurs les héros n'en sont que plus réels. Un roman que je recommande pour les ados, mais aussi aux plus vieux si vous souhaitez revivre cette période de votre vie.
Rien n'est surfait, en trop, les personnages sont vrais et on s'y attache vite. Ce pourrait être des personnes que nous pourrions rencontrer en chair et en os.
Bref, un petit chef d’œuvre avec beaucoup d'humour, qui retrace l'histoire de la première fois, du premier amour, avec tous les doutes que cela peut receler : sans aucun cliché.
Ce n'est pas un énième roman sur ce sujet, c'est LE roman.
Originally posted here.
Lobsters was laugh out loud funny, and just brought back such fond and awkward memories of being a teenager. I could have read this is one sitting. I loved it.
Hannah and Sam are predictably a bit concerned about losing their virginities before University, and as teenagers do, they constantly think about what it will be like and who will be the right person. They inadvertently meet one night at a house party and loads of awkwardness and hilarity ensure. Misunderstandings and miscommunication rule as both of them try to navigate the minefields of their feelings and friendships.
I have never read a book that has captured the essence of what it is truly like to be a teenager in Britain so well. The humour was just fantastic, I was crying with laughter at points. I think the 'frenemy' relationship between Hannah and her 'best friend' Stella so relatable. I absolutely detested Stella! But it reminded me of the lack of self confidence as a teen that sometimes results in keeping a toxic friendship, even though all that 'friend' does is make you feel like shit about yourself. It was perfectly done. In fact, all of the friendships in this book were conveyed brilliantly.
I have never read a young adult book before that presented first sexual encounters as realistically as this novel. It was cringe worthy, awkward, hilarious and just really accurate. I thought it was just brilliant, if quite uncomfortable to read because of the cringe factor.
I think this is a great book for older teenagers, the characters in the book are seventeen/eighteen but I think teens that are fifteen and up would really relate to this story. It really reminded me of being that age and I think everybody would get loads of giggles from this book.
Lobsters was laugh out loud funny, and just brought back such fond and awkward memories of being a teenager. I could have read this is one sitting. I loved it.
Hannah and Sam are predictably a bit concerned about losing their virginities before University, and as teenagers do, they constantly think about what it will be like and who will be the right person. They inadvertently meet one night at a house party and loads of awkwardness and hilarity ensure. Misunderstandings and miscommunication rule as both of them try to navigate the minefields of their feelings and friendships.
I have never read a book that has captured the essence of what it is truly like to be a teenager in Britain so well. The humour was just fantastic, I was crying with laughter at points. I think the 'frenemy' relationship between Hannah and her 'best friend' Stella so relatable. I absolutely detested Stella! But it reminded me of the lack of self confidence as a teen that sometimes results in keeping a toxic friendship, even though all that 'friend' does is make you feel like shit about yourself. It was perfectly done. In fact, all of the friendships in this book were conveyed brilliantly.
I have never read a young adult book before that presented first sexual encounters as realistically as this novel. It was cringe worthy, awkward, hilarious and just really accurate. I thought it was just brilliant, if quite uncomfortable to read because of the cringe factor.
I think this is a great book for older teenagers, the characters in the book are seventeen/eighteen but I think teens that are fifteen and up would really relate to this story. It really reminded me of being that age and I think everybody would get loads of giggles from this book.
Finished this book a few days ago. This is my 2nd favorite book of the year (so far). There are moments when I literally laughed out loud in public and then there were moments that make you feel sad for the main characters. It was a very well written novel. 5 billion stars
This book didn't do much for me. It was a cute story and all and there were fun characters, but I just wish there was more to the book. It was a surface level story about two characters trying to lose their virginity and it does create some awkward moments. The main character's best friend is pretty awful to her throughout the book until they hash their issues out and actually talk to eachother. The book was a little all over the place and I never really connected with it or the characters.
This one is definitely going into my favourite books list!
If you haven't read this book already, you really must. It's only been released just this month and I was lucky enough to find this book when browsing in my local bookshop. The cover enticed me to pick it up and I absolutely loved this book!
It's basically about a girl, Hannah, and a boy, Sam, who are on a mission to find "The One" or their Lobster (which I learnt from Friends what that was about). They don't want to go to university virgins and set out on a mission to find their other half with a few problems thrown in the way of their quest.
Everything about this book was brilliant. First off, this was set in the UK. Oh, how I've missed books that are set in my own country! So it's refreshing to read people use slang words from where I'm from and speak like me, a lot of the situations were similar to when I was around that age too. It's annoying when I'm reading a book set in the USA and I have to google what something means. The characters also went away on holiday and I love books where they're going around to different places, maybe it's the traveller in me that wants to see various places all the time in my stories. This is why I love road trip books.
The characters are very relatable, as a female, I felt I could relate to Hannah a lot with the issues she was having, especially the problems she had with some of her friends. None of them were unrealistic and they were all flawed in their own way. Sam and the boys' side of the story was funny, it's certainly what I expect from boys their age to talk about and the issues they'd facing, seeing as their most important thing was getting laid (and sometimes his odd worry over school)
I have to mention, if you love the Harry Potter series, you'll also love the references in this book. And there's a lot! I was pleasantly surprised to see it get mentioned pretty much every few chapters and you can tell a fan wrote this story.
I can't really write much more without spoiling anything.
It had me doubling over in laughter, it's a great summer read and I highly recommend everyone give this one a go. It's quick to read, a story that kept me hooked and it's a fantastic debut novel from Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison. Everyone can relate in some way and you'll be laughing, crying and cringing along with Hannah and Sam. It's a great coming-of-age story that you can't not love. A new favourite book for me!
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REVIEW ALSO POSTED AT http://thehonestbookclub.blogspot.co.uk/
If you haven't read this book already, you really must. It's only been released just this month and I was lucky enough to find this book when browsing in my local bookshop. The cover enticed me to pick it up and I absolutely loved this book!
It's basically about a girl, Hannah, and a boy, Sam, who are on a mission to find "The One" or their Lobster (which I learnt from Friends what that was about). They don't want to go to university virgins and set out on a mission to find their other half with a few problems thrown in the way of their quest.
Everything about this book was brilliant. First off, this was set in the UK. Oh, how I've missed books that are set in my own country! So it's refreshing to read people use slang words from where I'm from and speak like me, a lot of the situations were similar to when I was around that age too. It's annoying when I'm reading a book set in the USA and I have to google what something means. The characters also went away on holiday and I love books where they're going around to different places, maybe it's the traveller in me that wants to see various places all the time in my stories. This is why I love road trip books.
The characters are very relatable, as a female, I felt I could relate to Hannah a lot with the issues she was having, especially the problems she had with some of her friends. None of them were unrealistic and they were all flawed in their own way. Sam and the boys' side of the story was funny, it's certainly what I expect from boys their age to talk about and the issues they'd facing, seeing as their most important thing was getting laid (and sometimes his odd worry over school)
I have to mention, if you love the Harry Potter series, you'll also love the references in this book. And there's a lot! I was pleasantly surprised to see it get mentioned pretty much every few chapters and you can tell a fan wrote this story.
I can't really write much more without spoiling anything.
It had me doubling over in laughter, it's a great summer read and I highly recommend everyone give this one a go. It's quick to read, a story that kept me hooked and it's a fantastic debut novel from Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison. Everyone can relate in some way and you'll be laughing, crying and cringing along with Hannah and Sam. It's a great coming-of-age story that you can't not love. A new favourite book for me!
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REVIEW ALSO POSTED AT http://thehonestbookclub.blogspot.co.uk/
Warning: Possible minor spoilers, but nothing I considered to need to be put undercut.
To start off, despite almost DNFing, this book made me laugh. I enjoyed certain parts of it at the beginning, like the nicknames and the lobster door. Those were cute and entertaining while showing us what a great friendship the four girls (Stella, Tilly, Grace & Hannah) had with each other. Hannah's relationship with her Nan was great too, it was nice to see that she had an adult actively taking part in her life. The writing pulls you along quite nicely too. Unfortunately, after that it all just kind of falls apart.
The main reason I kept reading this was because the book was a gift, and because I was really hoping to see Hannah mature and tell Stella off. Now, if you haven't read the book you're probably wondering why this would need to happen. So, let me tell you: this book has quite possibly the most toxic friendship I have ever read in a book. And there's no resolution too it, Hannah just remains spineless and abused. Her friends see it and are fine with it, and she has literally no reason not to have stopped being friends with her so-called BFF but she never does.Honestly, all of the friends, both Sam's & Hannah's, are terrible people (with the exception of Tilly and one of Sam's friends who had no personality). There's a point where I think she was supposed to have matured, but literally a page later it's all retracted and she's back to begging Stella for forgiveness.
I really hadn't been expecting that in the book, since almost everything I had seen about it made it seem like a fluffy romantic-comedy. For the most part this book has been marketed in two ways; mainly as a cute coming of age love story and as a book about virginity. Trust me when I say the latter is the more accurate one. The entirety of the book from start to finish is about sex and not wanting to be the last virgin of the friend group. There was so much sex and so much drama I almost DNFed. It wasn't in a coming of age way either, like the DUFF was either (which it was compared to in the blurb).
There was no love story in this, it was more like "The Summer of Bad Hookups" than a "Totally Awkward Love Story." Because when it came down to it, there was no love, just drugs, sex and alcohol. It was so unrealistic at times it became laughable. I don't mind having any of the above in my books, but the way it was used was terrible and came across as almost mocking teenagers. Overall this book was just so unbelievable from the depiction of the teens lives, (no parents in their right mind let teens go to a known drinking festival) it came across like it the authors' main source of knowledge on teens was from Seth Rogen and Mean Girls.
All in all this book was just every negative social behavior rolled into one book, it had sexism, slut-shaming, lying, cheating and abuse to name a few. It was just...bad.
To start off, despite almost DNFing, this book made me laugh. I enjoyed certain parts of it at the beginning, like the nicknames and the lobster door. Those were cute and entertaining while showing us what a great friendship the four girls (Stella, Tilly, Grace & Hannah) had with each other. Hannah's relationship with her Nan was great too, it was nice to see that she had an adult actively taking part in her life. The writing pulls you along quite nicely too. Unfortunately, after that it all just kind of falls apart.
The main reason I kept reading this was because the book was a gift, and because I was really hoping to see Hannah mature and tell Stella off. Now, if you haven't read the book you're probably wondering why this would need to happen. So, let me tell you: this book has quite possibly the most toxic friendship I have ever read in a book. And there's no resolution too it, Hannah just remains spineless and abused. Her friends see it and are fine with it, and she has literally no reason not to have stopped being friends with her so-called BFF but she never does.Honestly, all of the friends, both Sam's & Hannah's, are terrible people (with the exception of Tilly and one of Sam's friends who had no personality). There's a point where I think she was supposed to have matured, but literally a page later it's all retracted and she's back to begging Stella for forgiveness.
I really hadn't been expecting that in the book, since almost everything I had seen about it made it seem like a fluffy romantic-comedy. For the most part this book has been marketed in two ways; mainly as a cute coming of age love story and as a book about virginity. Trust me when I say the latter is the more accurate one. The entirety of the book from start to finish is about sex and not wanting to be the last virgin of the friend group. There was so much sex and so much drama I almost DNFed. It wasn't in a coming of age way either, like the DUFF was either (which it was compared to in the blurb).
There was no love story in this, it was more like "The Summer of Bad Hookups" than a "Totally Awkward Love Story." Because when it came down to it, there was no love, just drugs, sex and alcohol. It was so unrealistic at times it became laughable. I don't mind having any of the above in my books, but the way it was used was terrible and came across as almost mocking teenagers. Overall this book was just so unbelievable from the depiction of the teens lives, (no parents in their right mind let teens go to a known drinking festival) it came across like it the authors' main source of knowledge on teens was from Seth Rogen and Mean Girls.
All in all this book was just every negative social behavior rolled into one book, it had sexism, slut-shaming, lying, cheating and abuse to name a few. It was just...bad.
True to its title- some of these situations were so awkward, I actually cringed from my second-hand embarrassment.
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