Leah
Written on Jun 7, 2012
I loved Hazel. I loved how Kargman portrayed Hazel as a down-to-Earth New Yorker who wasn’t rich/insanely beautiful/intensely polite. Hazel told it as it was. She swore, she loved video games, she loved Finn Schiller before she met him, etc. She was real. As real as a fictional character can get, and I say that with the best of intentions. When Finn and Hazel meet, it’s epic and it’s so unputdownable. I just found myself reading and reading and reading, desperate to see where Hazel and Finn would go, desperate to know what Hazel would do about her incredibly lovely boyfriend Wylie. At the end of the day, everyone has that celebrity they’d give it all up for and to read it unfolding for Hazel and Finn was just sooooooooo brilliant. Finn wasn’t necessarily to my taste, but if you just imagine Finn is your hero and Hazel is you, well you’re going to be flying sky high.
The Rock Star in Seat 3A is one of the most readable books I’ve ever read and is easily one of my favourites of 2012. It’s the kind of book you can read again, and again. That will still make you laugh, make you sigh and make you wish you could meet your own celebrity crush. I just loved it, and kudos to Kargman, boy can she write and boy can she give you one of the most outspoken and cool female characters for ages. I hugely recommend it, because I absolutely loved it. You won’t regret purchasing it and come the end of 2012 it could be the best book I’ve read all year. It’s certainly at the top now and it’s the kind of book that you know is easily a favourite as soon as you read the first page.