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alannahjrpurslow's review against another edition
5.0
Read this in one sitting!! Light hearted, funny and warm.
saragatland's review against another edition
4.0
This book was really funny, and I really enjoyed it even though teen-romance isn't what I would normally read. I thought the comparisons between Rufus and cats and dogs were pretty clever.
elatedbooks's review against another edition
2.0
Strongly disagree with the title but the book was ok, I guess. It perked up in some places and if you got it as a gift (like I did) why not read it? But if it’s a choice between buying yourself or not, I wouldn’t.
thebookaddictedgirl's review against another edition
5.0
Circe Shaw wants to become a fabulously sophisticated journalist and uncover the mysterious truth about the male species.
But she has some major problems. It's hard being fabulously sophisticated living in "The Nook" (the smallest cottage ever) with her mum and her "just friends" guys "in The Middle Of Absolute Nowhere", while facing down an arch enemy and her romantic Dark Past...
In amongst blogging and "Male Human Pet Control Experiments", can Circe find out the real truth about guys - and maybe get herself a boyfriend of her own?
Or is this mystery meant to remain a mystery for all eternity - as it has a tendency to cause way to too many problems and broken hearts when seriously investigated...?
I love, love, love books that make me laugh. Always have. How To Keep A Boy As A Pet? Constant LOL-ING! Quirky and fun and bonkers, I just sped through this book: I felt myself being drawn in by Circe's madness from the word go and couldn't stop reading! But what I truly loved was that it was more than just funny, it was also really thoughtful, insightful and pure genius - and will definitely help in attracting a pet boy! For everyone looking for an amazingly written, hilarious and bonkers book: *thrusts How To Keep A Boy As A Pet at you*! This really is a must read for all teen girls! Seriously!
Circe Shaw was bonkers and funny and cute and oh-so fabulously sophisticated! Evidence of her wit, insanity and cuteness: "hamstericidal ratlets". I adored Circe - she was the most teenage teen, so relatable and loveable. An average, normal teen girl with abnormally large hair! As fabulous as she was, she was also dreadfully insecure - it just made you love her more, that vulnerability beneath the bravado, and I loved watching her grow and mature.
Rufus Strakes was kinda grumpy and snarky and smirk-y. He was really hard to figure out - a mystery! But that intense thing he had - yum! He was dark, broody, mysterious... Hey! Circe got her very own R-Patz! Learning more about him just made me adore him! And I loved the glimpses of the sweet, vulnerable Rufus we got, the Rufus lingering under the snark.
I also loved seeing how Circe's and Rufus' relationship grew. It started off as an experiment, but soon became much, much more. I felt it - it was so sweet and real and so not a science experiment!
I just adored all the characters - from the poshies to the besties to the "just friends" men. They were all brilliantly described and very varying and very funny! I also loved all the various relationships - how they evolved, how different they all were - how real. Tash and Ben, Circe’s best friends, were both awesome and so cute together! Savvy Rose, Circe's real-imaginary-reader of her blog, was clever, cheerful and a great advice giver – like a virtual big sister! I loved the conversations she and Circe had! But who was she really...? And I loved Circe’s pets' names - Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. LOL! Blame her mother!
The writing was just hilarious and so, so Circe! I was constantly giggling and just loved the blog layout and how Circe liked to Put Things In Capital Letters A Lot! She was very thorough, very descriptive and very, very funny! She just felt so totally teen-ager-y! Loved it! I loved how she wrote as she felt, and how we could tell when she was excited, shocked, in pain. I really, truly felt like I got to know Circe!
And the plot was just utterly addictive! I adored Circe's "Male Human Pet Control" experiments - they had me absolutely cracking up! The plot was marvellously simple and sophisticated and straight forward, totally original and addictive. And gotta admit - did not see most of it coming!
I also loved that beneath the snarky, funny exterior lay a deeper, more serious theme - bullying, what it is and how to deal with it. Circe didn't think she was being bullied but she was - horribly so. Diane Messidoro dealt with it skilfully, tackling it and telling the reader how to stop/deal with it if it happens to you or a friend.
One girl's mission to be a fabulously sophisticated journalist while trying to discover the truth about the male species and hopefully land a boyfriend, How To Keep A Boy As A Pet was bonkers, hilarious and marvellously, barmily British! I found that I couldn't put it down, and when I did I had a lovely warm feeling inside. I loved this book to pieces and will be counting down the days til the next book in the series (What Not To Do In The Dark) comes out!!
But she has some major problems. It's hard being fabulously sophisticated living in "The Nook" (the smallest cottage ever) with her mum and her "just friends" guys "in The Middle Of Absolute Nowhere", while facing down an arch enemy and her romantic Dark Past...
In amongst blogging and "Male Human Pet Control Experiments", can Circe find out the real truth about guys - and maybe get herself a boyfriend of her own?
Or is this mystery meant to remain a mystery for all eternity - as it has a tendency to cause way to too many problems and broken hearts when seriously investigated...?
I love, love, love books that make me laugh. Always have. How To Keep A Boy As A Pet? Constant LOL-ING! Quirky and fun and bonkers, I just sped through this book: I felt myself being drawn in by Circe's madness from the word go and couldn't stop reading! But what I truly loved was that it was more than just funny, it was also really thoughtful, insightful and pure genius - and will definitely help in attracting a pet boy! For everyone looking for an amazingly written, hilarious and bonkers book: *thrusts How To Keep A Boy As A Pet at you*! This really is a must read for all teen girls! Seriously!
Circe Shaw was bonkers and funny and cute and oh-so fabulously sophisticated! Evidence of her wit, insanity and cuteness: "hamstericidal ratlets". I adored Circe - she was the most teenage teen, so relatable and loveable. An average, normal teen girl with abnormally large hair! As fabulous as she was, she was also dreadfully insecure - it just made you love her more, that vulnerability beneath the bravado, and I loved watching her grow and mature.
Rufus Strakes was kinda grumpy and snarky and smirk-y. He was really hard to figure out - a mystery! But that intense thing he had - yum! He was dark, broody, mysterious... Hey! Circe got her very own R-Patz! Learning more about him just made me adore him! And I loved the glimpses of the sweet, vulnerable Rufus we got, the Rufus lingering under the snark.
I also loved seeing how Circe's and Rufus' relationship grew. It started off as an experiment, but soon became much, much more. I felt it - it was so sweet and real and so not a science experiment!
I just adored all the characters - from the poshies to the besties to the "just friends" men. They were all brilliantly described and very varying and very funny! I also loved all the various relationships - how they evolved, how different they all were - how real. Tash and Ben, Circe’s best friends, were both awesome and so cute together! Savvy Rose, Circe's real-imaginary-reader of her blog, was clever, cheerful and a great advice giver – like a virtual big sister! I loved the conversations she and Circe had! But who was she really...? And I loved Circe’s pets' names - Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. LOL! Blame her mother!
The writing was just hilarious and so, so Circe! I was constantly giggling and just loved the blog layout and how Circe liked to Put Things In Capital Letters A Lot! She was very thorough, very descriptive and very, very funny! She just felt so totally teen-ager-y! Loved it! I loved how she wrote as she felt, and how we could tell when she was excited, shocked, in pain. I really, truly felt like I got to know Circe!
And the plot was just utterly addictive! I adored Circe's "Male Human Pet Control" experiments - they had me absolutely cracking up! The plot was marvellously simple and sophisticated and straight forward, totally original and addictive. And gotta admit - did not see most of it coming!
I also loved that beneath the snarky, funny exterior lay a deeper, more serious theme - bullying, what it is and how to deal with it. Circe didn't think she was being bullied but she was - horribly so. Diane Messidoro dealt with it skilfully, tackling it and telling the reader how to stop/deal with it if it happens to you or a friend.
One girl's mission to be a fabulously sophisticated journalist while trying to discover the truth about the male species and hopefully land a boyfriend, How To Keep A Boy As A Pet was bonkers, hilarious and marvellously, barmily British! I found that I couldn't put it down, and when I did I had a lovely warm feeling inside. I loved this book to pieces and will be counting down the days til the next book in the series (What Not To Do In The Dark) comes out!!
escapeebee's review against another edition
5.0
Review also posted here on TotalTeenFiction
When Circe Shaw's new best friend and her childhood guy best friend get together, she feels a little left out. She decides to start a blog to cover the hottest topics, only it turns out what she's best at writing about is her own life and her hopeless efforts at finding a boyfriend. With her new ambitions to be a top journalist, the book follows Circe as she keeps her readers up to date on life and love in "the middle of nowhere".
I LOVED this book. This is one of those reviews where I'm not quite sure where to start! I didn't know too much about the book but it grabbed my attention at the library with its super-cute cover. As soon as I started it I knew it was my kind of thing. The book is written through Circe's blog posts and any book written in a different style like that gets me excited! I think it's even more exciting reading a blog written through blog posts when you're a blogger yourself, too. The way its written means it isn't really broken up into chapters which I thought would bother me, but it didn't. It just made it harder to put down!
Circe as a character won me over instantly. Her voice throughout the book is just hilarious. She's so witty and funny and you get a great look at her personality through her blog posts, from her pets named after film stars, her love of R-Patz and her disastrous attempts at getting dolled up to impress a guy. Her character went a lot deeper when I expected as well. The book may revolve around her attempts to get some kind of love life but there is so, so much more to her as a character than that. Circe lives with her single mother and she's made the move from London to the middle of nowhere in the British countryside. (The overall British-ness was also something I adored, than that's coming from a Brit!) There's a lot of issues Circe keeps glossing over which are obviously quite important to her, and it's only a matter of time before they're explained a bit more, and I was blown over by the writing when things started to come to life.
When I picked this book up I was expecting a light, fun, girly read and whilst it certainly has those elements, it's SO much more than that. If you're put off by the title then I'd urge you to give it a try anyway because I think there's a lot more to this book than meets the eye!
How to Keep a Boy as a Pet gets the balance between fun, light-hearted boy drama and serious, real life problems bang on. I think there's something for everyone in this book, and if you're looking for a new contemporary read then I would urge you to go and look this one up!
Find more books like this on TotalTeenFiction
When Circe Shaw's new best friend and her childhood guy best friend get together, she feels a little left out. She decides to start a blog to cover the hottest topics, only it turns out what she's best at writing about is her own life and her hopeless efforts at finding a boyfriend. With her new ambitions to be a top journalist, the book follows Circe as she keeps her readers up to date on life and love in "the middle of nowhere".
I LOVED this book. This is one of those reviews where I'm not quite sure where to start! I didn't know too much about the book but it grabbed my attention at the library with its super-cute cover. As soon as I started it I knew it was my kind of thing. The book is written through Circe's blog posts and any book written in a different style like that gets me excited! I think it's even more exciting reading a blog written through blog posts when you're a blogger yourself, too. The way its written means it isn't really broken up into chapters which I thought would bother me, but it didn't. It just made it harder to put down!
Circe as a character won me over instantly. Her voice throughout the book is just hilarious. She's so witty and funny and you get a great look at her personality through her blog posts, from her pets named after film stars, her love of R-Patz and her disastrous attempts at getting dolled up to impress a guy. Her character went a lot deeper when I expected as well. The book may revolve around her attempts to get some kind of love life but there is so, so much more to her as a character than that. Circe lives with her single mother and she's made the move from London to the middle of nowhere in the British countryside. (The overall British-ness was also something I adored, than that's coming from a Brit!) There's a lot of issues Circe keeps glossing over which are obviously quite important to her, and it's only a matter of time before they're explained a bit more, and I was blown over by the writing when things started to come to life.
When I picked this book up I was expecting a light, fun, girly read and whilst it certainly has those elements, it's SO much more than that. If you're put off by the title then I'd urge you to give it a try anyway because I think there's a lot more to this book than meets the eye!
How to Keep a Boy as a Pet gets the balance between fun, light-hearted boy drama and serious, real life problems bang on. I think there's something for everyone in this book, and if you're looking for a new contemporary read then I would urge you to go and look this one up!
Find more books like this on TotalTeenFiction
aboard_the_rampion's review against another edition
5.0
It was so funny
You should definitely read it
I absolutely loved it
You should definitely read it
I absolutely loved it
jennjuniper's review against another edition
4.0
I AM IN FLOODS OF TEARS NOW I FEEL LIKE THIS BOOK LIED TO ME WITH ITS PINK HAPPY COVER.
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