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

Did not finish book. Stopped at 73%.
Norris is a dick to just about everyone and he thinks he's better than everyone. He's the classic high school narrator who's self aware about all the tropes but his misanthropy doesn't come with the usual self hatred. He thinks everyone in the US is stupid and while that's not an unfair assessment for the country as a whole he uses it as an excuse to treat individual people (who are minors and have no control over whether or not they live in Texas) like they're below him.  
I was gifted this book by someone who knows me well and usually finds great books so this was surprising. I made myself keep reading because I wanted to know about (minor spoiler)
the semicolon tattoo that Liam was trying to hide
which comes back up for a few pages in chapter 24 and 25 (major spoiler but only to this isolated plot line)
but it's a story from his past that proceeds to not be mentioned again for the rest of what I read, plus I skimmed the rest of the book for his name and read other people's reviews... nothing.

This is a good book for people who enjoy high school drama from a (genderbent) I'm-not-like-other-girls pov. I am not one of those people.
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