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Freshmen
by Tom Ellen, Lucy Ivison
A cute, actually hilarious story of two college freshmen over in the UK and their crazy first semester.
Phoebe and Luke went to the same high school, and she had the biggest crush on him, but he didn’t even knew she existed (how typical) but on their first night at Orientation, they meet each other among all the drunken chaos that was actually pretty accurate of a college town bar. After that night, Their romance blooms as they navigate their way through campus and find out who their real friends are and where they belong.
Phoebe meets Negin and Frankie (Frankie btw is a show stealer) through the campus quidditch club (live for the HP throughout the book) while Luke meets Will, the captain of the Soccer team. The real plot thickens at this point as Luke gets closer and learns that the soccer team has a secret group message filled with pics of the girls they’ve slept with and their judgements of how attractive they all think they are or not (sad but true)
The book wasn’t the most exciting read, not that it was expected, but it does capture the life of being on a college campus very well and filled me with nostalgia of when I went to my school and the amazing year I had my freshman year. Like the craziness and randomness that occurs in the dorms, the gross things you eat or drink and what you drink them out of, the insane ways you will do to save money, out of all the people there are On campus you always run into the people you don’t want to see, and even the party scene but also the nights you stay in, grab some friends, sweats and blanketsAnd have a Netflix night. The only difference here is, the drinking age in the UK is 18 instead of our 21, so yes, freshman litter the bars instead of the frat parties.
The book was well written and I did actually laugh at a certain part of the book (thank you Frankie and her mom), but my only critique is how it ended. It was good, don’t get me wrong, but it left a lot of unresolved issues that make me hope the authors at least make a sequel to explore these issues and finalize the story a little better, plus it’d complete the freshman year because
**spoiler alert but not really***
the book only takes place in the first semester.
If you like a cute, romantic comedy of a book, and/or a book to remind you how fun college was (at least if you enjoyed it yourself) I recommend it! Give it the ole college try 😉
Phoebe and Luke went to the same high school, and she had the biggest crush on him, but he didn’t even knew she existed (how typical) but on their first night at Orientation, they meet each other among all the drunken chaos that was actually pretty accurate of a college town bar. After that night, Their romance blooms as they navigate their way through campus and find out who their real friends are and where they belong.
Phoebe meets Negin and Frankie (Frankie btw is a show stealer) through the campus quidditch club (live for the HP throughout the book) while Luke meets Will, the captain of the Soccer team. The real plot thickens at this point as Luke gets closer and learns that the soccer team has a secret group message filled with pics of the girls they’ve slept with and their judgements of how attractive they all think they are or not (sad but true)
The book wasn’t the most exciting read, not that it was expected, but it does capture the life of being on a college campus very well and filled me with nostalgia of when I went to my school and the amazing year I had my freshman year. Like the craziness and randomness that occurs in the dorms, the gross things you eat or drink and what you drink them out of, the insane ways you will do to save money, out of all the people there are On campus you always run into the people you don’t want to see, and even the party scene but also the nights you stay in, grab some friends, sweats and blanketsAnd have a Netflix night. The only difference here is, the drinking age in the UK is 18 instead of our 21, so yes, freshman litter the bars instead of the frat parties.
The book was well written and I did actually laugh at a certain part of the book (thank you Frankie and her mom), but my only critique is how it ended. It was good, don’t get me wrong, but it left a lot of unresolved issues that make me hope the authors at least make a sequel to explore these issues and finalize the story a little better, plus it’d complete the freshman year because
**spoiler alert but not really***
the book only takes place in the first semester.
If you like a cute, romantic comedy of a book, and/or a book to remind you how fun college was (at least if you enjoyed it yourself) I recommend it! Give it the ole college try 😉