Reviews

The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane

ameserole's review

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ellyrarg's review

3.0

A YA book about teens learning to overcome their internal traumas at camp. Blah.

deedralapray's review

3.0

After Brain on Fire and Absolute Darling, I needed something a little lighter. This was a sweet YA read. There were some fairly funny moments at a camp for teens with "heightened emotional states" (you can just read that as crazy). The sad moments were there, too. I would definitely recommend this one to some of my high school girls.

heavenstobetsy_'s review

5.0

This is one of my favorite books. I felt just about every emotion reading this.

treparker73's review against another edition

4.0

Encouraging

Great read for troubled teens or even adults going thru a tough time. This camp seems too good to be true. But, what I really think was the defining characteristic of change was the people.

larryerick's review against another edition

2.0

It is my belief that there is no good reason a Young Adult book needs to be less well written than a regular book. Unfortunately, with a very few exceptions, in my experience, that is too often the case. I try to take into account the fact that I apparently skipped over my youth entirely and failed to live the experiences YA authors insist on projecting upon their characters. Parents and authority figures are endlessly stupid, stubborn, and unaware (which may be often true), but they are also vague, almost ghost-like characters that float in and out of the main characters' lives, which begs the question, why interact with them at all if they're so worthless. More importantly, the youthful characters themselves often behave nothing like anyone I knew way back in my own ancient times. This book is particularly bad in that respect. A short synopsis for this book would be many messed up kids go to a camp to interact with other messed up kids with the help of messed psychology applied by forever interfering messed up adults...and the messed up kids end up saving themselves from their mess. What are the odds? Speaking of odds, what are the odds the title of the book would not mention either of the two most critical characters, nor the main point of the book? I will let any future reader to discover for themselves what problems lay within the narrative, but I will say that at just about the time I was getting ready to stop reading altogether, the author, having set the stage in such a flimsy way, proceeds to do a very fine job of tying things together at the end. Adults all of a sudden become real people. Youthful characters act in realistic ways to both each other and to their situation. I actually liked the ending. Too bad I don't trust the author to avoid similar pitfalls in any other works.

samthequeen's review

4.0

Quick read. I really liked the idea that we are all borken, and reading about the ways different people cope reminded me of several former students of mine.

laurazdavidson's review against another edition

5.0

"Sweetness floods me. His sweetness, the apple’s, mine, they tangle together. If there is poison in this, I’ll risk it. I will risk a life with poison to have this moment forever." Loved it!

kerryzielke's review against another edition

3.0

Somewhat...

This was a somewhat unbelievable book. I'm not sure it's healthy for teenagers to believe that they can save their mentally ill friends.

ashleybhaley's review against another edition

5.0

This book!!!! Completely adored the characters, the writing, the humor, everything!!!

Received this book from Amazon's Kindle First program. Zander's parents send her to camp for troubled teens. It's there that she meets some amazing personalities... I highly recommend this book!