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135,789. That’s how many subscribers sixteen-year-old West Ryder has on his web vlog series. But he only has eyes for one of them. As one of the internet’s most prestigious video bloggers, West talks about high school relationships under the name “Sam Green.” As far as he knows, no one from school, not even his best friend, Cat, has seen his videos. But the highlight of the whole thing is Harper Knight, who comments every day at exactly 202 in the afternoon. He doesn’t know anything about her aside from the occasional deep philosophical messaging on why pizza tastes so delicious, but as stupid as it sounds, he might be falling for her. So when they finally agree to meet in real life, West’s hope for romance seems more and more in reach. But that all changes as soon as he arrives at their meeting spot and sees Cat walking toward him, wearing the same “I <3 Sam Green” T-shirt Harper promised she'd have on. To his alarm, West realizes he is falling in love with the best friend who has always been a sister to him.
Click To Subscribe LM Augustine 9781484829370 Books
Originally posted on my blog: Tangled Up in BooksIt is...*checks*...43% and I feel it's time to go ahead and call defeat on this one. Which is disappointing because I really wanted to like this book. The summary sounded cute and promising. Especially since after books, watching vlogs on YouTube is one of my other addictions. My teenager and I have a sort of mother/son bonding time I guess you could call it nearly every day over them so I was pretty excited by this whole concept. Sadly though, the execution fell flat for me.
I had one major issue with this book. West Ryder. Okay, I want to stress that if any of this comes off mean it was the furthest thing from my intentions. I'm just calling it like I, personally, see it. So...in my honest opinion, as the mother of a 17 year old boy, who has plenty of 16, 17, 18 year old male friends (so obviously I've been in the war zone plenty), West Ryder comes off as being written by someone who's never been around a teenage boy. Ever. Harsh probably, but that's the vibe I feel from him. His mannerisms, his dialogue (both verbal and internal) sound more like an angst filled teenage girl. I mean honestly if it never came out and said that we were in West's POV for this book and just had to guess...I'd have said the POV was female. And it wasn't just me. I gave my Kindle to my kiddo to read over some of the first few chapters without knowing why and his reaction was basically "it's just weird...." With some confused looks mixed in.
I toss my hair. "Bitch, I'm fabulous."
Something he said a lot. How fabulous and amazing he is. Yes, I get that it was all in a joking way because West was far from confident. But it was all the time and just got to be too much, when you hear the same joke over and over again it becomes less funny...especially when to begin with, it wasn't even that funny.
At one point early on, when meeting "Harper" for the first time in person, West is going through typical nerves as he goes through possible scenarios in his head about her possible reactions to him, how they'll greet each other, what he should say etc and one of the first things he thinks about when telling her how he feels about her is about loving, marrying and having kids with her. HE'S A FREAKING SIXTEEN/SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD BOY!! I'm so not joking...
I'm sorry but the LAST thing to pop into a boys mind at that age are marriage and babies. Come on...
I think I'm just going to leave off here. I've not set out to trash anything and I feel like if I keep going I'll just start sounding worse and who knows maybe it got better? I just had an extremely difficult time getting past the MC and taking him seriously because he just didn't feel believable to me. I'd like to give this author another go in the future in hopes that Click to Subscribe and myself just didn't have the right chemistry. I'm hopeful. The concept of this book was great, like I said it was all in the execution.
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Click To Subscribe LM Augustine 9781484829370 Books Reviews
I needed a light, quick, fun book to read this week, and Click to Subscribe fit the bill perfectly. It is a sweet little story about two best friends that might actually be feeling more than purely friendship feelings for one another and how they deal with it. This book is very formulaic in nature, holding so many elements that you almost always see in run-of-the-mill YA lit. There is a protagonist with a troubled home life. There is the required witty banter between girl and guy. There is a bit of unrequited love. There is lots of angst about new feelings. There is pulling away and running back together. And then problems get resolved and HEA is achieved. Like I say, I liked this story, but it isn't anything extraordinary in a crowded YA field.
There are a couple of problems with the story, but none of them were enough to make me dislike the story. They were just things that I noticed. West is the first person narrator for this story, and, Oh Boy! did he have trouble interpreting his own feelings! At times I felt like the old guy on the porch in It's a Wonderful Life, wanting to scream out "Kiss her already!" in just about every scene. Supposedly he was worried about putting himself out there and getting hurt, losing his excellent friendship with Cat in the process, but because he was so obtuse about his own feelings as he describes them in the novel, it was horribly frustrating for me as a reader. I wanted him to work through things a bit better. There is a lot of banter between Cat and West meant to showcase their amazing friendship, but it didn't really work for me. There were too many "you know I'm awesome" comments for my taste. Do kids really talk to each other this way? I'm sure they do. But I really need a bit more when I'm reading a novel. If I knew these two in real life I would have gotten sick of the banter in less than a week.
And then there is an entire side story about his troubled relationship with his father who was driving drunk when he ran a red light and his car was side-swiped, killing West's mom. Now his father is a horrible, angry drunk who does absolutely nothing unless it involves belittling his son. All of the issues involved in this back story deserved a lot more time. It either needed to be the main focus of the book or maybe not part of the book at all. As it was, too little time was spent on it for it to be fully explored, and the (sort of) resolution seemed too quick and abrupt for the gravity of what was going on.
Having said all that, this is still a very quick read with a satisfying ending. I love stories where two great friends end up falling in love. Too often stories involve love happening before friendship. This book does it right. I did like both West and Cat, and I really felt for Cat's dilemma in this story. There is excellent romantic tension in this story that drives the reading, and the resolution of that tension made me smile at the end.
Overall, I would say that this is a good indie book to try out if you are looking for something sweet and light. It isn't very deep or unique, but it was a nice summer afternoon read for me. Three stars!
Originally posted on my blog Tangled Up in Books
It is...*checks*...43% and I feel it's time to go ahead and call defeat on this one. Which is disappointing because I really wanted to like this book. The summary sounded cute and promising. Especially since after books, watching vlogs on YouTube is one of my other addictions. My teenager and I have a sort of mother/son bonding time I guess you could call it nearly every day over them so I was pretty excited by this whole concept. Sadly though, the execution fell flat for me.
I had one major issue with this book. West Ryder. Okay, I want to stress that if any of this comes off mean it was the furthest thing from my intentions. I'm just calling it like I, personally, see it. So...in my honest opinion, as the mother of a 17 year old boy, who has plenty of 16, 17, 18 year old male friends (so obviously I've been in the war zone plenty), West Ryder comes off as being written by someone who's never been around a teenage boy. Ever. Harsh probably, but that's the vibe I feel from him. His mannerisms, his dialogue (both verbal and internal) sound more like an angst filled teenage girl. I mean honestly if it never came out and said that we were in West's POV for this book and just had to guess...I'd have said the POV was female. And it wasn't just me. I gave my to my kiddo to read over some of the first few chapters without knowing why and his reaction was basically "it's just weird...." With some confused looks mixed in.
I toss my hair. "Bitch, I'm fabulous."
Something he said a lot. How fabulous and amazing he is. Yes, I get that it was all in a joking way because West was far from confident. But it was all the time and just got to be too much, when you hear the same joke over and over again it becomes less funny...especially when to begin with, it wasn't even that funny.
At one point early on, when meeting "Harper" for the first time in person, West is going through typical nerves as he goes through possible scenarios in his head about her possible reactions to him, how they'll greet each other, what he should say etc and one of the first things he thinks about when telling her how he feels about her is about loving, marrying and having kids with her. HE'S A FREAKING SIXTEEN/SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD BOY!! I'm so not joking...
I'm sorry but the LAST thing to pop into a boys mind at that age are marriage and babies. Come on...
I think I'm just going to leave off here. I've not set out to trash anything and I feel like if I keep going I'll just start sounding worse and who knows maybe it got better? I just had an extremely difficult time getting past the MC and taking him seriously because he just didn't feel believable to me. I'd like to give this author another go in the future in hopes that Click to Subscribe and myself just didn't have the right chemistry. I'm hopeful. The concept of this book was great, like I said it was all in the execution.
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