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luetya 's review for:
Bookish and the Beast
by Ashley Poston
Note: This review is going to be full of spoilers. I really enjoyed the story. Poston's books are always feel good super cute stories. But I knocked off a star for a few reasons. First of all, this first printing has a lot of editing issues. There were lots of times when it was obvious that she had been trying a few different sentence structures and not all of the unused sentence was deleted or the syntax would be off. This made it hard to get lost in the story. There was one point were it talks about Vance smoothing his tux, then says that the other boys at the dance are in chinos, boat shorts and tuxes and that Vance feels "punked" because he isn't wearing any of that, and then two paragraphs later says he feels exposed in a form fitting tux. Is he wearing a tux or not??? Make up your mind! This is the kind of thing that should have been caught in the editing/proof reading phase. If that was all that was wrong I probably wouldn't have knocked off a star, believing this would be fixed in subsequent printings, but while the story overall is cute, some things just felt forced to me. I never really bought Garrett wanting to take Rosie to Homecoming. He says one time that she's pretty and Rosie believes it's because he feels sorry for her because of her mothers death, but none of that felt like a strong enough reason. I felt like Poston just wanted a Gaston character but she didn't build that correlation up enough. If he had pressed the fact that she was the prettiest girl in the school and he was the most popular/good looking so OF COURSE she had to go with him I would have believed it more. But one mention of "you're pretty" just didn't cut it for me. Also, Imogene just happening to be the sister of the rival teams quarterback at the Homecoming game in po-dunk nowhere North Carolina, and she just happening to sit on the home teams side instead of the visitors side so she can just happen to hear Rosie's name and connect it to Vance was just to pat for me. I would have liked it better if she had come specifically for Vance to help him fix things when the TMZ video gets out because they are friends. But overall I enjoyed the book. Side note: Why does Vance have short hair on the cover? The cover is beautiful, don't get me wrong. But throughout the book he is described as having long blonde hair that he wears down or in a bun. You would think the graphic designer could have depicted him that way. When he dyed his hair orange I was expecting him to chop most of it off and dye back the rest so he would finally match the cover but nope, didn't happen. Anyway, I love this series and hope there is more to come.