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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
El libro me pareció ''lindo'' lo digo porque demuestra que nada es imposible y todo puede pasar, como paso en el libro,
Bianca y wesley eran básicamente polos opuestos o al menos eso creían ellos, pero cuando se conocieron realmente se dieron cuenta de que tenían mucho en común,aunque este libro me pareció muy pero muy cliché, porque era muy predecible y sabia que B escogería a wesley y toby era lindo pero prefería a wesley obviamente, me gusto el libro así fuera cliché aunque no había leído uno en donde existiera una ''duff'' pero lo había visto en películas, mi amiga me lo recomendó y procedí a leerlo y como dije me gusto pero no del todo, aunque me gusto más la parte en que Bianca era la duff y el chico popular y apuesto se enamoro de la duff y la duff se enamoro de la persona que más odiaba, o eso creía ella..
Bianca y wesley eran básicamente polos opuestos o al menos eso creían ellos, pero cuando se conocieron realmente se dieron cuenta de que tenían mucho en común,aunque este libro me pareció muy pero muy cliché, porque era muy predecible y sabia que B escogería a wesley y toby era lindo pero prefería a wesley obviamente, me gusto el libro así fuera cliché aunque no había leído uno en donde existiera una ''duff'' pero lo había visto en películas, mi amiga me lo recomendó y procedí a leerlo y como dije me gusto pero no del todo, aunque me gusto más la parte en que Bianca era la duff y el chico popular y apuesto se enamoro de la duff y la duff se enamoro de la persona que más odiaba, o eso creía ella..
Debo decir que me gustó más el libro que la película.
Me encantó la personalidad de Bianca, es 100% sarcasmo y la amo.
Me encantó la personalidad de Bianca, es 100% sarcasmo y la amo.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A book for young adults that was actually written by one! Like most YA, though, some parts were more realistic than others. Still a fun, quick read. I especially liked the female protagonist, Bianca. She's not your stereotypical teenage main character; she stays true to herself, is cynical, and calls it like she sees it. YA needs more characters like that.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Enjoyable. Quick read. Typical YA.
I actually loved this book, and I highly recommend it. My reasons being that it gives a fairly well rounded view of realistic teenage life and feelings. Our protagonist isn’t some otherworldly beauty, bemoaning the terrible fate of being born beautiful, or whose deepest problems are feeling constrained by loving parents, or annoyed by younger siblings and such. Bianca Piper is an average teenage girl, with real insecurities and problems. She has to deal with her parents divorcing, her father falling off the wagon and drinking, becoming a much different person towards his daughter, and has to deal with how she feels about being classed as “The D.U.F.F”, and the implications behind how that makes her feel about the way she looks and presents herself.
She also has to deal with her past and present colliding, when she’s forced to confront the fact that her friend’s older brother, someone she was used by sexually, will be around, when her friend had no idea the two were ever connected. This causes her to have a realistic reaction. Most protagonists would have an uplifting talk with their friends, would explain everything to them with the perfect words (that of course she narrates as not being perfect to try and pretend this is a normal teenager), and everything would turn out fine. Bianca chooses instead, like a lot of teenagers, to ignore and avoid her problems. She avoids her friends because SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO THEM, and she’s scared that, because they know her so well, they’ll immediately know something is wrong, and she simply can’t figure out how to cope with her friends knowing how wrong things are in her life at that point.
This is such a normal, but essentially brilliant, teenage reaction. We don’t have all the right answers. Even adults don’t have all the right answers. In fact most of us don’t even have all the right questions. There are always going to be times when we run around like headless chickens, simply trying to figure out what the hell we’re doing, and how to deal with things. Bianca doesn’t want her friends to know what’s going on, because she thinks it’ll be fixed, that she can TRY to fix what’s going on with her parents, that she can hide her Dad’s drinking, because she doesn’t want people to judge him. She thinks if she can just avoid her friends until Jessica’s brother leaves, that she won’t have to reveal the humiliating secret that she was used and tossed away, making her even more insecure about herself. Bianca feels like her life is falling apart, but she doesn’t have the answers. She also makes bad decisions on how to deal with her problems. Like avoiding her friends, and sleeping with Wesley as a distraction tactic. But that’s just so normal and realistic. It really is. Because we all do stupid shit when our lives are falling apart, when things go wrong, we panic and do stupid things.
But it’s not just Bianca who makes dumb decisions. Wesley does it too. He calls Bianca a “D.U.F.F.” which causes her huge insecurity about the way she looks, and adds to the insecurities she already has. He also sleeps with girls, as a distraction to his own family problems. Bianca and Wesley find out much more about each other, but it’s played out realistically. Like they’re not the perfect couple. They start a casual relationship because they need distraction from their problems. They go from enemies, to casual lovers, to being friends with benefits. But where Wesley starts realising that he actually has REAL feelings for Bianca, it’s almost refreshing to see that Bianca doesn’t just fall into his arms, which is what would usually happen in this sort of story. Boy falls in love with girl, and girl falls in love with boy, ‘and they all live happily after... The end” which would’ve been terribly cliché. My opinion about this is based on the fact that, while Wesley is all in, realising feelings for Bianca. He started out by calling her the D.U.F.F. and he starts out as a known womaniser. So while they clearly end up becoming friends with benefits, it would be stupid of Bianca to have just jumped into his arms straight off. She doesn’t completely trust him. Which feels right to me. There’s also the guy that that Bianca has a crush on, Toby, who starts paying attention to Bianca. This makes her feel good about herself. Any teenage girl would be looking at that when her life is falling apart and she feels insecure. Wesley didn’t start off being nice, he started off as an asshole. So when he starts trying to woo her, as it were, she’s reluctant to believe him. Where as Toby starts off being nice. So even though Bianca clearly feels something for Wesley (though she doesn’t seem to know what she wants, and doesn’t voice her feelings for Wesley in so many words), she knows that Toby is the SAFE choice. So she tries with him. Even though she knows there’s no spark there. Which is something that even some grown women do. Trying to pick the safe option, even if it’s not the option that they feel any spark for.
But in the end, Bianca starts learning to deal with her problems, starts learning to trust in, and talk to, the people around her. She starts figuring out what she wants, and what makes this ending worth the time, is that even though we (by “we” I mean me) are rooting for Wesley and Bianca to end up together, and they DO, it’s not given to us as a saccharine, happily ever after, tied up in a neat little bow. We’re given a realistic ending, where Wesley and Bianca are going to try a relationship, and see how it goes, and Bianca is going to work on her own issues. They’re going to see where it goes. It’s slightly messy and not picture perfect, and it’s fabulous for exactly those reasons.
To be fair, I could go on all day about this book. It’s cemented itself fairly firmly as a favourite for me. I love how all the characters are HUMAN. They have their own problems , they fuck up, they admit their faults. Bianca’s mother admits she should’ve been there more for her daughter (and if being a self help guru, who can’t deal with their own problems, isn’t the perfect example of a back seat driver, I don’t know what is). Bianca’s Dad apologises for his behaviour and starts going back to AA meetings. Wesley, has made a commitment to Bianca, and admits he has to change things in his family life, and that he’s going to make changes. Toby admits that while he likes Bianca, in a friends way, he’s missing his ex girlfriend, and Bianca tells him to resolve the issue, and he leaves to do that. Even Jessica’s brother Jake, who we never directly see, admits to his sister that he did something wrong, by treating Bianca the way he did, and that he actually feels terrible about it, even more so, as Bianca brought Jessica into her friend circle, and didn’t discriminate based on what Jake did to her. So Bianca isn’t forced to resolve that issue with her friend. But all these things are basically left open ended. Do we know if Bianca’s parents will keep their words and try to do better? Do we know if Bianca and Wesley are going to work out in the long run? Do we know if Toby sorts it all out with his ex? We don’t. But that’s life. It doesn’t end until it ENDS and that’s what makes the ending to this book perfect.
She also has to deal with her past and present colliding, when she’s forced to confront the fact that her friend’s older brother, someone she was used by sexually, will be around, when her friend had no idea the two were ever connected. This causes her to have a realistic reaction. Most protagonists would have an uplifting talk with their friends, would explain everything to them with the perfect words (that of course she narrates as not being perfect to try and pretend this is a normal teenager), and everything would turn out fine. Bianca chooses instead, like a lot of teenagers, to ignore and avoid her problems. She avoids her friends because SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO THEM, and she’s scared that, because they know her so well, they’ll immediately know something is wrong, and she simply can’t figure out how to cope with her friends knowing how wrong things are in her life at that point.
This is such a normal, but essentially brilliant, teenage reaction. We don’t have all the right answers. Even adults don’t have all the right answers. In fact most of us don’t even have all the right questions. There are always going to be times when we run around like headless chickens, simply trying to figure out what the hell we’re doing, and how to deal with things. Bianca doesn’t want her friends to know what’s going on, because she thinks it’ll be fixed, that she can TRY to fix what’s going on with her parents, that she can hide her Dad’s drinking, because she doesn’t want people to judge him. She thinks if she can just avoid her friends until Jessica’s brother leaves, that she won’t have to reveal the humiliating secret that she was used and tossed away, making her even more insecure about herself. Bianca feels like her life is falling apart, but she doesn’t have the answers. She also makes bad decisions on how to deal with her problems. Like avoiding her friends, and sleeping with Wesley as a distraction tactic. But that’s just so normal and realistic. It really is. Because we all do stupid shit when our lives are falling apart, when things go wrong, we panic and do stupid things.
But it’s not just Bianca who makes dumb decisions. Wesley does it too. He calls Bianca a “D.U.F.F.” which causes her huge insecurity about the way she looks, and adds to the insecurities she already has. He also sleeps with girls, as a distraction to his own family problems. Bianca and Wesley find out much more about each other, but it’s played out realistically. Like they’re not the perfect couple. They start a casual relationship because they need distraction from their problems. They go from enemies, to casual lovers, to being friends with benefits. But where Wesley starts realising that he actually has REAL feelings for Bianca, it’s almost refreshing to see that Bianca doesn’t just fall into his arms, which is what would usually happen in this sort of story. Boy falls in love with girl, and girl falls in love with boy, ‘and they all live happily after... The end” which would’ve been terribly cliché. My opinion about this is based on the fact that, while Wesley is all in, realising feelings for Bianca. He started out by calling her the D.U.F.F. and he starts out as a known womaniser. So while they clearly end up becoming friends with benefits, it would be stupid of Bianca to have just jumped into his arms straight off. She doesn’t completely trust him. Which feels right to me. There’s also the guy that that Bianca has a crush on, Toby, who starts paying attention to Bianca. This makes her feel good about herself. Any teenage girl would be looking at that when her life is falling apart and she feels insecure. Wesley didn’t start off being nice, he started off as an asshole. So when he starts trying to woo her, as it were, she’s reluctant to believe him. Where as Toby starts off being nice. So even though Bianca clearly feels something for Wesley (though she doesn’t seem to know what she wants, and doesn’t voice her feelings for Wesley in so many words), she knows that Toby is the SAFE choice. So she tries with him. Even though she knows there’s no spark there. Which is something that even some grown women do. Trying to pick the safe option, even if it’s not the option that they feel any spark for.
But in the end, Bianca starts learning to deal with her problems, starts learning to trust in, and talk to, the people around her. She starts figuring out what she wants, and what makes this ending worth the time, is that even though we (by “we” I mean me) are rooting for Wesley and Bianca to end up together, and they DO, it’s not given to us as a saccharine, happily ever after, tied up in a neat little bow. We’re given a realistic ending, where Wesley and Bianca are going to try a relationship, and see how it goes, and Bianca is going to work on her own issues. They’re going to see where it goes. It’s slightly messy and not picture perfect, and it’s fabulous for exactly those reasons.
To be fair, I could go on all day about this book. It’s cemented itself fairly firmly as a favourite for me. I love how all the characters are HUMAN. They have their own problems , they fuck up, they admit their faults. Bianca’s mother admits she should’ve been there more for her daughter (and if being a self help guru, who can’t deal with their own problems, isn’t the perfect example of a back seat driver, I don’t know what is). Bianca’s Dad apologises for his behaviour and starts going back to AA meetings. Wesley, has made a commitment to Bianca, and admits he has to change things in his family life, and that he’s going to make changes. Toby admits that while he likes Bianca, in a friends way, he’s missing his ex girlfriend, and Bianca tells him to resolve the issue, and he leaves to do that. Even Jessica’s brother Jake, who we never directly see, admits to his sister that he did something wrong, by treating Bianca the way he did, and that he actually feels terrible about it, even more so, as Bianca brought Jessica into her friend circle, and didn’t discriminate based on what Jake did to her. So Bianca isn’t forced to resolve that issue with her friend. But all these things are basically left open ended. Do we know if Bianca’s parents will keep their words and try to do better? Do we know if Bianca and Wesley are going to work out in the long run? Do we know if Toby sorts it all out with his ex? We don’t. But that’s life. It doesn’t end until it ENDS and that’s what makes the ending to this book perfect.