The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
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Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Helpful Score: 1
I don't like the cover with the girl with the close-up. That's what my ARC had and I like the cover I've seen with the close-up of the girl who is blowing a bubble with her gum.....
Anyway, the book is good. Real good. I'd read another by Keplinger with no hesitation whatsoever. It's definitely YA but I'm 32 and enjoyed it a lot. I loved, loved, loved Bianca's attitude! Not the robot chick you see so much now but someone who says what she wants, when she wants, someone who is sassy and smart and isn't afraid to wait instead of settle!
I was able to relate a lot thinking back to the high school days and I know kids these days will be able to relate just as much, if not more. I liked, a lot, that it wasn't all wahsed out and toned down with a parental advisory sticker on it. There is cursing, there is sex, there's even a little family violence thrown in. From the small amount of YA that I've read so far, most don't go that route, you know, the reality route - unless that's all their about of course. If it's a regular high school-like story the reality type aspects are usually wiped out and this isn't the case here. The conversations could all real, the feelings could all be real, etc.
I was scared towards the end that the ending wouldn't go the way I wanted it to - but it did. :) I loved the processing of certain things that Bianca does throughout the story and Wesley's character is just awesome and so totally on point.
There are only a very few editing issues which is more refreshing that I can even say. To read a published book and find more mistakes than an ARC really says something.
~~To Kody Keplinger - Please don't jump on the sequel/prequel/series bandwagon! This story is awesome on it's own. As much as I loved Biana, as much as I loved (by the end) Wesley, it just wouldn't do. Authors these days seem to have a tough time letting the characters die and more often than not that's exactly what they should do. Bringing them back, over and over and over is only running them into the ground. I hope we get to remember Bianca and Wesley just like this.
That said, please keep writing! ;)~~
Anyway, the book is good. Real good. I'd read another by Keplinger with no hesitation whatsoever. It's definitely YA but I'm 32 and enjoyed it a lot. I loved, loved, loved Bianca's attitude! Not the robot chick you see so much now but someone who says what she wants, when she wants, someone who is sassy and smart and isn't afraid to wait instead of settle!
I was able to relate a lot thinking back to the high school days and I know kids these days will be able to relate just as much, if not more. I liked, a lot, that it wasn't all wahsed out and toned down with a parental advisory sticker on it. There is cursing, there is sex, there's even a little family violence thrown in. From the small amount of YA that I've read so far, most don't go that route, you know, the reality route - unless that's all their about of course. If it's a regular high school-like story the reality type aspects are usually wiped out and this isn't the case here. The conversations could all real, the feelings could all be real, etc.
I was scared towards the end that the ending wouldn't go the way I wanted it to - but it did. :) I loved the processing of certain things that Bianca does throughout the story and Wesley's character is just awesome and so totally on point.
There are only a very few editing issues which is more refreshing that I can even say. To read a published book and find more mistakes than an ARC really says something.
~~To Kody Keplinger - Please don't jump on the sequel/prequel/series bandwagon! This story is awesome on it's own. As much as I loved Biana, as much as I loved (by the end) Wesley, it just wouldn't do. Authors these days seem to have a tough time letting the characters die and more often than not that's exactly what they should do. Bringing them back, over and over and over is only running them into the ground. I hope we get to remember Bianca and Wesley just like this.
That said, please keep writing! ;)~~
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