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A review by ruthie
Blaine for the Win by Robbie Couch
2.0
(actual rating 2.5-ish?)
who needs a coherent review, i'm gonna copy paste the notes i made along the way instead
pop culture references tally
- taylor swift
- umbrella academy
- bridgerton
- ru paul's drag race
- lotr
- alicia keys
- big brother (the show)
- janelle monae
- the weeknd
- obama
- bobby flay (? he counts right)
- lil nas x
- lizzo
- jonathan van ness
moments copying legally blonde
- the entire breakup scene
- "what, like it's hard?"
- the ex having a haughty new lover
- who dumps him bc he's a trash bag human
- and becomes bffs with the main character
the last names in this book are so dumb?????
- sheets
- palms
- eggman
- nevercrop
- chesterton
- beesbopper
- julliard (like the school???)
- spice
- stones
other commentary
- blaine keeps calling "aloe vera" aloha or ala-whatever. like. have u never had a sunburn in your life???
- i just don't think this hits as hard when you remove the whole misogyny factor...?
- the idea that class president would be meaningful to any college/job/etc in any way is genuinely hilarious
- so far students want blaine to have the power to cancel exams (which are state mandated) and... change the entire culture of instagram (and social media as a whole)?? dude is 17
- this book is explaining (and demonstrating) mental illness like the reader is, hmm, seven years old? (happy people can be sad inside! anxious people may seem fine on the surface!) like... thank u for the after school special but i'm good
- are we SURE writing about an election where the results were rigged is the moment...? in the year of our lord 2022? (presumably 2021 when this was written?) no one read that and said, hmm, better not?
- i'm sorry but what seventeen year olds are saying holy cow, heck, shoot, etc that aren't. like. mormons
- after an entire book of wanting to be a "Serious Guy" to win back his ex, the main character comes to the conclusion that "maybe i am a Serious Guy after all" (that's a direct quote) because he's ~serious about his murals~. when i tell you that sentence makes me want to dock an entire star
- i knew from the moment he came on screen (as it were) who the love interest would be and still the author could not drum up an ounce of chemistry between the two. i liked the LI well enough but the two of them together were uninteresting
- i wanted this to hit the way the sky blues did but it just didn't :( all the stuff that bothered me abt that book was in here, without any of the heartwarming moments that made me love it anyway
who needs a coherent review, i'm gonna copy paste the notes i made along the way instead
pop culture references tally
- taylor swift
- umbrella academy
- bridgerton
- ru paul's drag race
- lotr
- alicia keys
- big brother (the show)
- janelle monae
- the weeknd
- obama
- bobby flay (? he counts right)
- lil nas x
- lizzo
- jonathan van ness
moments copying legally blonde
- the entire breakup scene
- "what, like it's hard?"
- the ex having a haughty new lover
- who dumps him bc he's a trash bag human
- and becomes bffs with the main character
the last names in this book are so dumb?????
- sheets
- palms
- eggman
- nevercrop
- chesterton
- beesbopper
- julliard (like the school???)
- spice
- stones
other commentary
- blaine keeps calling "aloe vera" aloha or ala-whatever. like. have u never had a sunburn in your life???
- i just don't think this hits as hard when you remove the whole misogyny factor...?
- the idea that class president would be meaningful to any college/job/etc in any way is genuinely hilarious
- so far students want blaine to have the power to cancel exams (which are state mandated) and... change the entire culture of instagram (and social media as a whole)?? dude is 17
- this book is explaining (and demonstrating) mental illness like the reader is, hmm, seven years old? (happy people can be sad inside! anxious people may seem fine on the surface!) like... thank u for the after school special but i'm good
- are we SURE writing about an election where the results were rigged is the moment...? in the year of our lord 2022? (presumably 2021 when this was written?) no one read that and said, hmm, better not?
- i'm sorry but what seventeen year olds are saying holy cow, heck, shoot, etc that aren't. like. mormons
- after an entire book of wanting to be a "Serious Guy" to win back his ex, the main character comes to the conclusion that "maybe i am a Serious Guy after all" (that's a direct quote) because he's ~serious about his murals~. when i tell you that sentence makes me want to dock an entire star
- i knew from the moment he came on screen (as it were) who the love interest would be and still the author could not drum up an ounce of chemistry between the two. i liked the LI well enough but the two of them together were uninteresting
- i wanted this to hit the way the sky blues did but it just didn't :( all the stuff that bothered me abt that book was in here, without any of the heartwarming moments that made me love it anyway