A review by melerihaf
The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini

2.0

I will preface this by saying that I am a nerd. I play LoL and Magic: the Gathering. I even won a Magic tournament a couple of weeks ago (and yes, I was super excited about it). So I was really hoping for something different from this book about a kid who plays C & C (which I thought was a clever name, btw). But as I read it, it felt too much like a Percy Jackson novel crossed with Diana Wynne Jones' Dark Lord of Derkhelm written by a very "writerly" writer. (Is that a word? There is such a thing as a painterly painter, so I'm using it.) I felt like the author wanted to be admired as someone who wrote teen novels literarily. I found it distracting and irritating and I finally gave up about halfway through.