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A review by andreathereader
Giving Up the V by Serena Robar
4.0
Spencer is happy with the way things are going and sees no reason to change things. But her friends start talking more and more about doing the deed and on her 16th birthday, her progressive mom takes her to the doctor and gets Spencer her first prescription for birth control pills. The Pill makes her a kind of celebrity amongst her friends and they start wondering when she’ll finally do IT. Then Ben shows up at school and suddenly Spencer starts thinking now is a good time to lose her V-card.
This was a quick and easy (or down and dirty, as it were) read. The novel opens with poor Spencer in the stirrup chair for the first time and I found her sense of humor so funny. I literally laughed out loud several times in just the first few pages. If you can remember that very first visit to the gyno, you can relate to her embarassment. Especially given the fact that she doesn’t even want to be there, as she’s not planning on having sex for quite a while.
I enjoyed Spencer’s friends, they were a diverse group of people and they all had their quirks, good and bad qualities. There was the manwhore with a heart of gold; the goth chick with crazy clothes and hair who was sensible and yet couldn’t stay away from her on-again, off-again boyfriend; the funny smart guy who was always there for his friends… Though some characters could have been considered cliches, I never got the feeling that I’d seen them before, they felt fresh and new to me.
Sometimes I would find Spencer or one of her friends doing something that I thought was silly, then I would remind myself that they were just teenagers, with hormones a’plenty. Lord knows I’ve done some stupid things in the throes of a crush!
Besides the obvious ‘should she’ or ‘shouldn’t she’ plot line, there was a secondary one with Spencer’s friend Alyssa, a strong female character who decided to go ahead and have a one night stand just to lose her virginity and created a spreadsheet of possible candidates. One of the possible candidates was the one and only Ben, which left Spencer unsure of how to handle the situation. This additional plot line blended the 2 opposite viewpoints on sex well.
The dialogue was probably the best part of the book for me. The way Spencer and her friends talked was so snarky and witty, I loved it. The way her friend offered himself as sacrifice for her first sexual experience was sweet and ironic at the same time. There was no explicit sex, but it was talked about in great detail. There was a little romance, and it was both sweet and real.
As reviewed by TheBusyBibliophile.com.
This was a quick and easy (or down and dirty, as it were) read. The novel opens with poor Spencer in the stirrup chair for the first time and I found her sense of humor so funny. I literally laughed out loud several times in just the first few pages. If you can remember that very first visit to the gyno, you can relate to her embarassment. Especially given the fact that she doesn’t even want to be there, as she’s not planning on having sex for quite a while.
It’s not like I didn’t know my weight. I was reminded of it every time I stepped into my size thirteen jeans. But was it really necessary to share it with complete strangers? Especially skinny ones? I wasn’t sure which part bothered me more, revealing my weight or my vagina.
I enjoyed Spencer’s friends, they were a diverse group of people and they all had their quirks, good and bad qualities. There was the manwhore with a heart of gold; the goth chick with crazy clothes and hair who was sensible and yet couldn’t stay away from her on-again, off-again boyfriend; the funny smart guy who was always there for his friends… Though some characters could have been considered cliches, I never got the feeling that I’d seen them before, they felt fresh and new to me.
Sometimes I would find Spencer or one of her friends doing something that I thought was silly, then I would remind myself that they were just teenagers, with hormones a’plenty. Lord knows I’ve done some stupid things in the throes of a crush!
Besides the obvious ‘should she’ or ‘shouldn’t she’ plot line, there was a secondary one with Spencer’s friend Alyssa, a strong female character who decided to go ahead and have a one night stand just to lose her virginity and created a spreadsheet of possible candidates. One of the possible candidates was the one and only Ben, which left Spencer unsure of how to handle the situation. This additional plot line blended the 2 opposite viewpoints on sex well.
The dialogue was probably the best part of the book for me. The way Spencer and her friends talked was so snarky and witty, I loved it. The way her friend offered himself as sacrifice for her first sexual experience was sweet and ironic at the same time. There was no explicit sex, but it was talked about in great detail. There was a little romance, and it was both sweet and real.
As reviewed by TheBusyBibliophile.com.