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

3.0

ben philippe teaches screenwriting, according to his author bio, and that shows; he really excels at quick snappy dialogue that made me laugh out loud a few times, while the descriptive part of the prose is a little weaker for sure. this book wasn't groundbreaking, but i don't think it was trying to be; what it ended up being was a lot of fun! it was incredibly entertaining & i liked the characters quite a bit (particularly norris, madison, and liam). the plot was... rather predictably cliche... but i'm more inclined to let that slide with ownvoices books because usually the only people who get a turn on the cliches are white cishet abled people, so there we are. my tl;dr is that my family read this over winter break as part of our Family Book Club TM and it was just. a fun time