From Goodreads: Elliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn’t going to do this summer. 1. She isn’t going to stay home in Sacramento, where she’d have to sit through her stepmother’s sixth community theater production of The Importance of Being Earnest. 2. She isn’t going to mock trial camp at UCLA. 3. And she certainly isn’t going to to the Air Force summer program at her mom’s base in Colorado Springs. As cool as it would be to live-action-role-play Ender’s Game, Ellie’s seen three generations of […]
“Year ten of Watson v. West starts now.”
In short, we were the smart kid school, Xavier’s School for the Gifted Youngsters minus the mutant abilities- unless you counted the polyglots and concert violinists as mutants, which wouldn’t be entirely unfair. The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You is a very cute, somewhat predictable pieces of YA chock full of geeky references and snark. Trixie Watson and her friends attend a high school for gifted students where school ranks are flaunted and no one has had eight hours of sleep since Kindergarten. Trixie’s senior […]
Nerdy overachievers unite!
Lovers of nerdy YA — this one’s for you. Trixie Watson and her friends are proud nerds who attend a school that puts a lot of academic pressure on its students. They handle it well (for the most part), and spend their precious free time making cosplay and reading comic books. Trixie’s thrown together with her sworn enemy, Ben West, when one of her friends starts dating one of his. The nerd references get just a bit heavy-handed throughout this novel, but overall I really enjoyed […]
“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably”
Beatrice “Trixie” Watson has two goals for her senior year. She wants to save enough money to buy the collectible Doctor Who figurines at the local comics shop and she intends to knock her nemesis, Benedict “Ben” West down to fourth place in their fancy prep school ranking. The two have always had a tense and antagonistic relationship, going all the way back to when Ben caused Trixie to break her arm on the monkey bars during first grade. This year, she is determined to […]