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Lobsters by Tom Ellen, Lucy Ivison
5.0

I genuinely was laughing out loud for a large portion of this book.

Sam and Hannah have just finished their A-Levels and they're hoping to find their "lobsters" before they each pack up for uni. A chance meeting in a toilet puts the two of them on a crash course throughout the novel, but as always, fate, timing, and their wonderfully well-meaning (mostly) friends get in the way.

This book is actually hilarious. I haven't laughed so much at a YA book since Georgia Nicolson's diaries.

Sam and Hannah are typical British 18-year-olds - and I can totally relate! It's not been that long since I was a fairly typical British 18-year-old, worrying about A-Level results and if I'd ever lose my virginity - which is a big theme in this book and there are some lovely (see: actually kind of gross but hilarious) sex-type scenes in it. I say sex-type because the only actual sex is at the very end but there are some beautifully crude mentions of fingering and other sexual deeds.

So maybe if you're a bit weirded out by that sort of thing this book isn't for you. But I will say again the wonderful quote I found on about page 10: "What have I ever done? Won a Year 9 essay contest and fingered Gemma Bailey in a gazebo."

I think it's been too long since I read a British book with proper British teenagers because that quote just screams Britishness at me. I love it.

Seriously though if you're cool with the sex references, read this book! It's that good.