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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
Got about 3 chapters in. I found the main character annoying and didn't feel the other merits of the book were strong enough to make it worth reading for me
2.5 stars/round up to 3.0
Interesting at first, but ultimately rather predictable. Especially the main male love interest, a Bobby Stu of truly gag worthy proportions. Pity, because I thought Egg/Victoria was very well drawn, especially in terms of how wearing feeling isolated from your peers can feel after a while.
Interesting at first, but ultimately rather predictable. Especially the main male love interest, a Bobby Stu of truly gag worthy proportions. Pity, because I thought Egg/Victoria was very well drawn, especially in terms of how wearing feeling isolated from your peers can feel after a while.
the rating is based on 20 year old me re reading the book, because i recall 14 year old me loving it.
20 year old me found the book a bit too unrealistic with many changes in Egg's personality over a too short period of time. i also found it way too predicting and not too exciting or anything.
but 14 year old me loved it. she was sort of like egg, proud since no boys liked her. proud that she wasn't like anyone else with their crushes and almost obsession over the opposite gender. and through this book she understood, not only that there's no such thing as actually being boy proof since boys can actually like you, but might just give up on you since you did not seem interested, but also that change in personality and circumstances and situation is actually possible with a little change in attitude. your own attitude.
now 6 years later, i still appreciate the last lesson. the fact that your own attitude to the world reflects on their attitude to you. if you act as if you hate boys, boys will actually hate you.
but i do recommend this book. it's a short read, and it's certainly no waste of time.
20 year old me found the book a bit too unrealistic with many changes in Egg's personality over a too short period of time. i also found it way too predicting and not too exciting or anything.
but 14 year old me loved it. she was sort of like egg, proud since no boys liked her. proud that she wasn't like anyone else with their crushes and almost obsession over the opposite gender. and through this book she understood, not only that there's no such thing as actually being boy proof since boys can actually like you, but might just give up on you since you did not seem interested, but also that change in personality and circumstances and situation is actually possible with a little change in attitude. your own attitude.
now 6 years later, i still appreciate the last lesson. the fact that your own attitude to the world reflects on their attitude to you. if you act as if you hate boys, boys will actually hate you.
but i do recommend this book. it's a short read, and it's certainly no waste of time.
This was a very enoyable book. The author nacely captures the "I'm so alienated; oh wait, maybe I'm doing this to myself; um, how do I get out of this hole?" nature of adolescence. Egg, aka Victoria, is our narrator, and though sometimes you want to shake her, you can see that she also very much wants to shake herself, so that makes it okay. The book definitely reminded me of my high school years, but not in a traumatizing way. Plus, it's a short and quick read.
I always love a YA novel with an unapologetically intelligent heroine.
Holy shit. I read this a Jesus jillion years ago and only found it because the author wrote Shade, the Changing Girl. I think I liked it? Still, weird that I stumbled across this.
... Yeah, I'm getting rid of this.
I remember being disappointed it was a shallower, more hollow story than I expected.
I agree with a lot of the other negative reviews. I read this because I remembered John Green's recommendation and I like pulpy YA as my comfort genre but the main character was so unlikable and such a dick to the people in her life and then suddenly 80% through the book after she's driven everyone away from her because none of them deserve such a toxic friend, she has an unprompted magical realization and suddenly is a completely different person. No recommendation from me. I also saw this book on a list called 'Asexuality in YA Fiction' - none of the characters in this are written as asexual and the main character often refers to characters as 'hot'. Overall disappointing.
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1/5