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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
Undoubtedly the best YA novel I've ever read. Period. Review to come!
Ich liebe, liebe, liebe dieses Buch. Von der Idee über die Umsetzung bis zu den Charakteren. Perfekt!!
I loved the concept, but I was pretty bored with the story.
Adorkable – Sarra Manning
Jeane Smith's a blogger, a dreamer, a dare-to-dreamer, a jumble sale queen, CEO of her own lifestyle brand and has half a million followers on twitter.
Michael Lee's a star of school, stage and playing field. A golden boy in a Jack Wills hoodie.
They have nothing in common but a pair of cheating exes. – So why can't they stop snogging?
This is the main question of the book were you and I, and even the two main characters don’t know the answer for. Let me just make this clear: They really don’t like each other at the beginning of the book. They go to the same school but live in two totally different worlds and they have no reason to get involved with each other.
The basic of the story isn’t originally: Two people who don’t like each other fall in love. You probably heard of it before. Then what makes this story so much fun to read?
The characters are the answer: The two main characters are telling you the story from their POV. You have Jeane Smith: She is the kind of character I like the most. She has a big mouth but a small heart. She is Sarcastic; isn’t afraid to give her opinion and thinks she can handle the world all on her own. Through the book these characteristics are getting in her way and she needs to face reality.
Michael lee is the typical boy you would fall in love with. He’s the boy you want to introduce to you parents and he is so adorable that my heart skips a beat when I fantasize about him. You can describe him in one word: Perfect! Well, that is what he wants you to think. Of course he is popular; has many friends and a loving family but like every teenage boy he also has problems.
The auteur understands the characters so the book is easy to read. Michael and Jeane aren’t forced up on each other and Miss manning made it seems like everything was an accident. Also the meaning of this book was clear: Be yourself! I know it is easy to say this but actually doing it is harder than it looks.
What did the book meant for me? :
1.It made me smile like a moron all the time. ( Making people look at me like I was crazy)
2.It made me realize that being different is okay!
3.It made me thinking about starting my own blog (what I never did but~ I thought about it!)
My conclusion: It’s a funny, realistic book about two amazing characters and their love/hate relationship. It isn’t just a mindless love story it has a meaning behind it and I definitely recommend it!
“Don’t follow leaders, be one.” Sarra manning, Adorkable
Jeane Smith's a blogger, a dreamer, a dare-to-dreamer, a jumble sale queen, CEO of her own lifestyle brand and has half a million followers on twitter.
Michael Lee's a star of school, stage and playing field. A golden boy in a Jack Wills hoodie.
They have nothing in common but a pair of cheating exes. – So why can't they stop snogging?
This is the main question of the book were you and I, and even the two main characters don’t know the answer for. Let me just make this clear: They really don’t like each other at the beginning of the book. They go to the same school but live in two totally different worlds and they have no reason to get involved with each other.
The basic of the story isn’t originally: Two people who don’t like each other fall in love. You probably heard of it before. Then what makes this story so much fun to read?
The characters are the answer: The two main characters are telling you the story from their POV. You have Jeane Smith: She is the kind of character I like the most. She has a big mouth but a small heart. She is Sarcastic; isn’t afraid to give her opinion and thinks she can handle the world all on her own. Through the book these characteristics are getting in her way and she needs to face reality.
Michael lee is the typical boy you would fall in love with. He’s the boy you want to introduce to you parents and he is so adorable that my heart skips a beat when I fantasize about him. You can describe him in one word: Perfect! Well, that is what he wants you to think. Of course he is popular; has many friends and a loving family but like every teenage boy he also has problems.
The auteur understands the characters so the book is easy to read. Michael and Jeane aren’t forced up on each other and Miss manning made it seems like everything was an accident. Also the meaning of this book was clear: Be yourself! I know it is easy to say this but actually doing it is harder than it looks.
What did the book meant for me? :
1.It made me smile like a moron all the time. ( Making people look at me like I was crazy)
2.It made me realize that being different is okay!
3.It made me thinking about starting my own blog (what I never did but~ I thought about it!)
My conclusion: It’s a funny, realistic book about two amazing characters and their love/hate relationship. It isn’t just a mindless love story it has a meaning behind it and I definitely recommend it!
“Don’t follow leaders, be one.” Sarra manning, Adorkable
I think the only thing I genuinely liked about this book were the end parts. Also, I liked Jeane's speech in New York. As mentioned in a previous status update, I appreciated Jeane's character and her uniqueness amongst in the YA genre. In saying that, I felt a bit betrayed when she swore off dorkiness. I'm glad she came to realisation... or acceptance in the end. It was a bit abrupt... but whatever. .
This story was more Jeane's than Michael's. I guess I understand where the author was coming from: two people from completely different worlds collide, and they both end up learning important lessons about themselves and their direction in life. Sounds to me like a coming of age story? Sort of?
Nah, soz. It didn't really work for me. For me, their "life epiphanies" lacked depth. Also, the romance. Ugh. That aspect of the book, I was just genuinely confused about. I didn't understand it...I still don't understand it? I never rooted for them, which is strange. Because I'm pretty sure we're meant to root for the protagonists in a romance YA novel.
Bottom line is, I don't think I enjoyed this book very much. I appreciate Jeane's character (as unlikeable as she is at times), but the general plot of the story (to me) wasn't that interesting. Or strong. Or important.
This story was more Jeane's than Michael's. I guess I understand where the author was coming from: two people from completely different worlds collide, and they both end up learning important lessons about themselves and their direction in life. Sounds to me like a coming of age story? Sort of?
Nah, soz. It didn't really work for me. For me, their "life epiphanies" lacked depth. Also, the romance. Ugh. That aspect of the book, I was just genuinely confused about. I didn't understand it...I still don't understand it? I never rooted for them, which is strange. Because I'm pretty sure we're meant to root for the protagonists in a romance YA novel.
Bottom line is, I don't think I enjoyed this book very much. I appreciate Jeane's character (as unlikeable as she is at times), but the general plot of the story (to me) wasn't that interesting. Or strong. Or important.
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
From what I've read this book has mixed reviews. I read this book twice as a teen, when I was 12. Back then I was caught up in the excitement of forbidden romance but reading this again I have 3 notes.
1) Jeane is refreshing. She's not likeable, no, but she feels real. She's a bitch and I love it. She's your strong teenage feminist and then some - and she's got the intellectual chops to prove it. Her personality doesn't suddenly disappear when a man arrives in her life and even at her most vulnerable moments she is unapologetically Jeane.
2) Despite the author's attempts, much appreciated attempts I might add, to include the the perspective of the often ignored male love interest, Michael feels like an afterthought. Jeane takes up space in people's lives and her character and experience spill into Michael chapters. It gets so bad that towards the end Michael is almost a mouthpiece for more Jeane. As a result, despite being a main character, Michael feels flat and unresolved. Furthermore, Michael talks the talk but cannot walk the walk. His character development is confused.The supposed character development of Michael seems to be that he's finally not afraid to be seen with dorky people. However, Michael never hated Jeane. He was lovely to her, in public too. What Michael really needed work on was being a pushover. Everyone in his life pushed him around: his mum, his friends and especially Jeane. And he awknowledges this several times but never does anything about it This ruined the book for me.
3) Despite my critiques of the character development, this book is ahead of it's time.From the comments about capitalism and the destruction of teen counterculture to the limitations of online friendships, Jeane's speech rings eerily true.
I could not appreciate such, aged 12. I am glad I re-read it.
I am giving it a 3. It was readable and shockingly relevant.
1) Jeane is refreshing. She's not likeable, no, but she feels real. She's a bitch and I love it. She's your strong teenage feminist and then some - and she's got the intellectual chops to prove it. Her personality doesn't suddenly disappear when a man arrives in her life and even at her most vulnerable moments she is unapologetically Jeane.
2) Despite the author's attempts, much appreciated attempts I might add, to include the the perspective of the often ignored male love interest, Michael feels like an afterthought. Jeane takes up space in people's lives and her character and experience spill into Michael chapters. It gets so bad that towards the end Michael is almost a mouthpiece for more Jeane. As a result, despite being a main character, Michael feels flat and unresolved. Furthermore, Michael talks the talk but cannot walk the walk. His character development is confused.
3) Despite my critiques of the character development, this book is ahead of it's time.
I could not appreciate such, aged 12. I am glad I re-read it.
I am giving it a 3. It was readable and shockingly relevant.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
twas okay, enjoyaable, but not amazing, honestly preferred some of her other work
1.5/5 stars
This is entertaining, but it has one of the most obnoxious and annoying characters ever written.
This girl, supposedly dorky (and I will get to her supposed dorkyness later) runs a social media empire based on her likes and wants (like every other teenage blog). She is the voice of cool and trend in this world Sarra Manning created. Jaene is self-centered, selfish and entitled, a hypocrite, nay hypocritical, mean and generally bad person. One would think this person has something remarkable and original, well at least intelligent, to say, yet there is nothing of the sort. Her only quality seems to be her feminism, which borderlines in Social justice warrior. Honestly, none of her speeches are as world changing, mind bending as the author seems to think they are.
Her love interest, Michael, the popular, hot boy, etc, etc, she bugs all the time about his seeking approval from everyone, but she never tries to understand him. And even with this, their relationship is boring.
On regards to the plot, I am extremely confused, because there is none. The romance (genre for which this book is sold) is mostly very bland and it has been done before (it is somewhat similar to The Duff), and in some points there seems to be a toxic relationship between the main characters. In character development, which I thought was the whole point of the book, is so sudden and in some really strange way, really wrong. The author spends most of her book trying to redeem and idolize this girl. An unhappy upbringing has traumatized her, but that does not justify the way she treats everyone, patronizing and judgmental, that has nothing to do with being a dork.
On a side note, with so many people doing great things for the world nowadays, I doubt she would be regarded as the great mind or media queen the author presents her to be, I do not doubt she could be famous, social media is that way, but she is not a game changer.
P.S.: On her dorkyness, the concept that this book seems to convey is that dressing differently, dismissing anything mainstream and having a liking to weird foods is the definition of dork, which inherently differs from mine, that just seems to be hipster-like to me, and as geek and nerd, she does not represent in the least bit how I am, much less the "queen of the nerds". But I'll just let that pass because it's personal.
This is entertaining, but it has one of the most obnoxious and annoying characters ever written.
This girl, supposedly dorky (and I will get to her supposed dorkyness later) runs a social media empire based on her likes and wants (like every other teenage blog). She is the voice of cool and trend in this world Sarra Manning created. Jaene is self-centered, selfish and entitled, a hypocrite, nay hypocritical, mean and generally bad person. One would think this person has something remarkable and original, well at least intelligent, to say, yet there is nothing of the sort. Her only quality seems to be her feminism, which borderlines in Social justice warrior. Honestly, none of her speeches are as world changing, mind bending as the author seems to think they are.
Her love interest, Michael, the popular, hot boy, etc, etc, she bugs all the time about his seeking approval from everyone, but she never tries to understand him. And even with this, their relationship is boring.
On regards to the plot, I am extremely confused, because there is none. The romance (genre for which this book is sold) is mostly very bland and it has been done before (it is somewhat similar to The Duff), and in some points there seems to be a toxic relationship between the main characters. In character development, which I thought was the whole point of the book, is so sudden and in some really strange way, really wrong. The author spends most of her book trying to redeem and idolize this girl. An unhappy upbringing has traumatized her, but that does not justify the way she treats everyone, patronizing and judgmental, that has nothing to do with being a dork.
On a side note, with so many people doing great things for the world nowadays, I doubt she would be regarded as the great mind or media queen the author presents her to be, I do not doubt she could be famous, social media is that way, but she is not a game changer.
P.S.: On her dorkyness, the concept that this book seems to convey is that dressing differently, dismissing anything mainstream and having a liking to weird foods is the definition of dork, which inherently differs from mine, that just seems to be hipster-like to me, and as geek and nerd, she does not represent in the least bit how I am, much less the "queen of the nerds". But I'll just let that pass because it's personal.
"The more time I spent with her, the more immune I became to the hot mess that she looked. Not even a hot mess, which implied some kind of hotness, just a mess."
That phrase totally works for both, Jeane and this book.
Jeane is adorkable. What is that? Well....It's being weird + being really strong minded/revolutionary + being feminist + internet addict + puppies (WTF? I love puppies so OK!).
She dress in the most oddly ways to accent her uniqueness and it's completly uncapable of keeping her mouth shut about "stuff that really matters".
And Jeane gets oddly involved with a boy who is everything but adorkable: beautiful and liked by everyone, Michael Lee.
So...If you get to liking Jeane, despite her
The highlight of this book is the empowerment of dorkiness. It's always interesting to see how authors manage themselves to reflect the reality of how internet is changing us. Awkwardness has skyrocketed its populatity online, and I want to think that that makes it more acceptable offline. And that's cool! I expended most of my teen years trying to fit in and be normal, but teenagers this days are embracing their dorkyness/awkwardness/being-differentness.
This book can give you ,young adult, a wonderful message about how it's OK to be different (which isn't that obvious to everyone) and that in today world you're never alone.
“Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.”
I know I would definitely join this dorkhood!