A review by ebralz
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe

3.0

This started out pretty solid for me, but in the end it was too long and VERY predictable. Plus the whole Mean Girls (movie) adaptation didn't sit well because I'm not sure that was really meant to be. Or at least it didn't feel that way. It was also clear that this was written from the author's personal experiences and so maybe it should have been a memoir, because it didn't feel different enough to be fiction. Not that I know the author and his story all that well, it just felt that way. In the end though, I loved it was a male POV, loved Maddie, and I liked how his faults in the end weren't all of a sudden fixed and he got the girl.

Also this really bothered me which is shouldn't have, but who were the twins parents? At one point it said they had a dad (son in law to Maddie's father) and then a couple of chapters later their parents were a lesbian couple. I don't know why it did bother me so much, especially since the twins were insignificant to the plot and characters, but kind of threw me off.