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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
It's great to see the geeky, semi-antisocial, older sister standing up for herself and to find love at the same time. The characters have little quirks that will keep you laughing and reading until you've devoured every last word.
I will preface my review by saying that I really enjoyed this book.
That said, OMG, BLAZE, WHY ARE YOU SO DUMB?
Blaze is basically a cautionary tale for what not to do as a teenage girl.
1) Do not be friends with someone who will send a text of you scantily clad to anyone, but especially someone you're crushing on.
2) If you have sex with someone (anyone, really, but especially someone who is a player---as evidenced by Blaze's brother and friends' reactions), use a condom. For the love of God, Blaze, USE A CONDOM. "I'll pull out" is not a good birth control method.
3) If you are considered a slut and you are not actually a slut, possibly it may be that the school's OTHER notorious slut is not actually a slut, either. At least give her the benefit of the doubt instead of treating her like she's Hester Prynne. (Who, incidentally, is also not a slut.)
But all that said, I really liked this book. Blaze is a little dim, but she's a sweet girl and she's so passionate about things that it's hard not to love her. And also, since things like this build character, I'm pretty sure that college-age Blaze is going to kick all kinds of ass.
I think this is such an important book because with the prevalence of sexting, anything that could get girls to consider not actually doing that is a good thing.
And also, this book is just plain fun. So while Blaze will possibly annoy the crap out of you, you'll love her anyway. It's so easy to love her, too. She's a great friend and older sister and there's so much more to her than a half-naked picture.
I hope there will be a sequel because I think there are some great things ahead for Blaze.
That said, OMG, BLAZE, WHY ARE YOU SO DUMB?
Blaze is basically a cautionary tale for what not to do as a teenage girl.
1) Do not be friends with someone who will send a text of you scantily clad to anyone, but especially someone you're crushing on.
2) If you have sex with someone (anyone, really, but especially someone who is a player---as evidenced by Blaze's brother and friends' reactions), use a condom. For the love of God, Blaze, USE A CONDOM. "I'll pull out" is not a good birth control method.
3) If you are considered a slut and you are not actually a slut, possibly it may be that the school's OTHER notorious slut is not actually a slut, either. At least give her the benefit of the doubt instead of treating her like she's Hester Prynne. (Who, incidentally, is also not a slut.)
But all that said, I really liked this book. Blaze is a little dim, but she's a sweet girl and she's so passionate about things that it's hard not to love her. And also, since things like this build character, I'm pretty sure that college-age Blaze is going to kick all kinds of ass.
I think this is such an important book because with the prevalence of sexting, anything that could get girls to consider not actually doing that is a good thing.
And also, this book is just plain fun. So while Blaze will possibly annoy the crap out of you, you'll love her anyway. It's so easy to love her, too. She's a great friend and older sister and there's so much more to her than a half-naked picture.
I hope there will be a sequel because I think there are some great things ahead for Blaze.
Blaze is tired of spending her life on the sidelines. All she wants is for Mark the Soccer Stud to notice her. Not as Josh's weird sister who drives a turd-brown minivan. And not as that nerdy girl who draws comics. What she gets is her very own arch-nemesis.
Name: Mark Deninger, aka Mark the Shark
Occupation: Soccer star and all-around lady killer
Relationship Status: Serial ater
Group Affiliation: No loyalty
Known Superpowers: Anti-girlfriend force field, breaking hearts
Mark may have humiliated Blaze supervillian-style, but what he doesn't know is how geek girls always get revenge.
Firstly, I would like to clarify that the blurb hyped the book in my mind and the actual book was not the hilarious fun fest I thought it would be. Don't get me wrong, the book was good, but not was I was expecting. Perhaps not reading the blurb would have made me enjoy it a bit more. So, the story goes like this - Blaze is a geek, and Mark is a jock. When he shows an interest in her, she gets overwhelmed and falls heads over heels. Naturally, he breaks her heart and that is where the story gets interesting. Instead of lying around picking up the pieces, she realizes he played her and resorts to art to express herself. The plan goes well until he tries to take revenge in a way that maligns her reputation and results in her getting bullied. By the end, she comes to terms with it, but not without going through a lot emotionally.
About the protagonist, Blaze, I found her quirky, proud geek and smart for most of the book, except for when she was in lurve with the jock - that's when she lost a few brain cells in trying to justify his behavior; though in fairness, he was a player and she was a virgin in all ways, including matters of the heart. She becomes a doormat character and lets people walk over her, particularly her father, who is, well, not fit to be anybody's father. She single-handedly helps her mom with chores like taking her brother for his soccer practices, making dinner and all - basically a good girl with a good heart. The heart was then trampled upon by Mark, who only wants to get in her pants. In all fairness, she should have heeded to the warnings of her little brother too, but well - love puts those rose-colored glasses. With the idiotic friends she has, something incriminating reaches Mark which he then uses to humiliate her in revenge for her making a comic in which he is the villain. When that spreads, she is bullied badly at school, and slut-shamed extensively. When another girl who was slut-shamed similarly opens up to her, she realizes that she and all others never stopped to think - just believed things as they came. They took things at face value and assumed the worst and that is a learning point for her. As for how she took revenge against her father, well, that was pretty cool too.
Overall, this book was interesting and unpredictable, combined with witty dialogues and and engaging writing style.
Name: Mark Deninger, aka Mark the Shark
Occupation: Soccer star and all-around lady killer
Relationship Status: Serial ater
Group Affiliation: No loyalty
Known Superpowers: Anti-girlfriend force field, breaking hearts
Mark may have humiliated Blaze supervillian-style, but what he doesn't know is how geek girls always get revenge.
Firstly, I would like to clarify that the blurb hyped the book in my mind and the actual book was not the hilarious fun fest I thought it would be. Don't get me wrong, the book was good, but not was I was expecting. Perhaps not reading the blurb would have made me enjoy it a bit more. So, the story goes like this - Blaze is a geek, and Mark is a jock. When he shows an interest in her, she gets overwhelmed and falls heads over heels. Naturally, he breaks her heart and that is where the story gets interesting. Instead of lying around picking up the pieces, she realizes he played her and resorts to art to express herself. The plan goes well until he tries to take revenge in a way that maligns her reputation and results in her getting bullied. By the end, she comes to terms with it, but not without going through a lot emotionally.
About the protagonist, Blaze, I found her quirky, proud geek and smart for most of the book, except for when she was in lurve with the jock - that's when she lost a few brain cells in trying to justify his behavior; though in fairness, he was a player and she was a virgin in all ways, including matters of the heart. She becomes a doormat character and lets people walk over her, particularly her father, who is, well, not fit to be anybody's father. She single-handedly helps her mom with chores like taking her brother for his soccer practices, making dinner and all - basically a good girl with a good heart. The heart was then trampled upon by Mark, who only wants to get in her pants. In all fairness, she should have heeded to the warnings of her little brother too, but well - love puts those rose-colored glasses. With the idiotic friends she has, something incriminating reaches Mark which he then uses to humiliate her in revenge for her making a comic in which he is the villain. When that spreads, she is bullied badly at school, and slut-shamed extensively. When another girl who was slut-shamed similarly opens up to her, she realizes that she and all others never stopped to think - just believed things as they came. They took things at face value and assumed the worst and that is a learning point for her. As for how she took revenge against her father, well, that was pretty cool too.
Overall, this book was interesting and unpredictable, combined with witty dialogues and and engaging writing style.
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Alright so I really wanted to like this book When I first heard about it I couldn't wait to get my hands on it, I wanted to love it... A book about a Nerdy girl named Blaze who's a comic fanatic it sounds awesome right?? Well wrong kinda..Don't think I'm trashing this book I'm not I just couldn't really get into it.I really enjoyed all the comic book references though even if I'm not into comics my self.Going to a comic con sounds like a blast.
Blaze was snarky,witty and a complete nerd but her pining for Mark bothered me. Blaze makes about a bunch of bad decisions (such as ignoring the warnings of her younger brother about Mark and his womanizing.At the end of the day though comes out on the other side with her head held up high.With the help of her little brother and friends.They where some of my favorites characters in the book.Along with the cute geeky guy who works at the comic store.
The cover is absolute amazing and eye catching as is sure to lure people to Blaze.
Blaze is light and full of nerd joy while high on spunk.But it just didn't quite cut it for me.I still would recommend it, though. I think others might enjoy it a lot more than I did.2/5
Alright so I really wanted to like this book When I first heard about it I couldn't wait to get my hands on it, I wanted to love it... A book about a Nerdy girl named Blaze who's a comic fanatic it sounds awesome right?? Well wrong kinda..Don't think I'm trashing this book I'm not I just couldn't really get into it.I really enjoyed all the comic book references though even if I'm not into comics my self.Going to a comic con sounds like a blast.
Blaze was snarky,witty and a complete nerd but her pining for Mark bothered me. Blaze makes about a bunch of bad decisions (such as ignoring the warnings of her younger brother about Mark and his womanizing.At the end of the day though comes out on the other side with her head held up high.With the help of her little brother and friends.They where some of my favorites characters in the book.Along with the cute geeky guy who works at the comic store.
The cover is absolute amazing and eye catching as is sure to lure people to Blaze.
Blaze is light and full of nerd joy while high on spunk.But it just didn't quite cut it for me.I still would recommend it, though. I think others might enjoy it a lot more than I did.2/5
Be still my geeky heart! Blaze is the best anti-love story I’ve ever read…it’s also the only one I’ve ever read, but I’m positive that it would still remain among the top 3 even if I had read others. It’s not often that a book boasts having a legitametly geeky main character and Blaze definitely manages to pull it off.
Blaze is an artistic high school girl who loves comic books and has a serious thing for Mark, who she goes to school with and also coaches her younger brother’s soccer team. He seems nice and swoon worthy, but after a few moments of chemistry everything goes a bit wrong. The story starts from the beginning and we get to see how Blaze navigates through the things mentioned in the blurb, and don’t worry even though a good portion of the plot is mentioned above it doesn’t really spoil the actual story.
It was such a joy to see a girl main character who loves comics and has a connection the superheroes in them, even as the geeky world grows it still seems a bit rare to have one in the forefront in books. Blaze has a great sense of humor and the way she describes things really shows off her quirky personality, and shows her ability to hope for the best even when things don’t seem to be in her favor. Her journey from being a slightly lovesick teen to a woman who can honestly say that she’s happy no matter what people may say about her is one that I was fully invested in and I couldn’t help but root for her. I loved the younger brother, Josh, and his group of friends. It’s really awesome that Blaze and her brother have such a great relationship and I adored the fact that she really took the time to be in his life. They had a really awesome dynamic.
As fun as this novel is it does touch on some serious topics that I feel are addressed in a real way that everyone can recognize. The biggest is bullying both in person and on social media, and just what effect that I can have on a young persons life. It’s not something that should be taken lightly and definitely shouldn’t be ignore, and I think that Compton really touched on it in a great way.
This is one of my favorites for the year and has earned a permanent place on my bookshelf.
Blaze is an artistic high school girl who loves comic books and has a serious thing for Mark, who she goes to school with and also coaches her younger brother’s soccer team. He seems nice and swoon worthy, but after a few moments of chemistry everything goes a bit wrong. The story starts from the beginning and we get to see how Blaze navigates through the things mentioned in the blurb, and don’t worry even though a good portion of the plot is mentioned above it doesn’t really spoil the actual story.
It was such a joy to see a girl main character who loves comics and has a connection the superheroes in them, even as the geeky world grows it still seems a bit rare to have one in the forefront in books. Blaze has a great sense of humor and the way she describes things really shows off her quirky personality, and shows her ability to hope for the best even when things don’t seem to be in her favor. Her journey from being a slightly lovesick teen to a woman who can honestly say that she’s happy no matter what people may say about her is one that I was fully invested in and I couldn’t help but root for her. I loved the younger brother, Josh, and his group of friends. It’s really awesome that Blaze and her brother have such a great relationship and I adored the fact that she really took the time to be in his life. They had a really awesome dynamic.
As fun as this novel is it does touch on some serious topics that I feel are addressed in a real way that everyone can recognize. The biggest is bullying both in person and on social media, and just what effect that I can have on a young persons life. It’s not something that should be taken lightly and definitely shouldn’t be ignore, and I think that Compton really touched on it in a great way.
This is one of my favorites for the year and has earned a permanent place on my bookshelf.
2 stars - the story itself was alright (although it seemed a bit slow to start), but a very, very judgmental main character and constant slutshaming made it difficult for me to get through this book without throwing it - luckily, I didn't, since it was an ebook.
The beginning was intresting, but the middle was boring so I skiped it for final three chapters. From that I could assume what happende, which was everyting I expected. Boring read.