From the award-winning author of Five, Six, Seven, Nate! and Better Nate Than Ever comes "a Holden Caulfield for a new generation" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before-before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa...and before the car accident that changed everything.
Enter: Geoff, Quinn's best friend who insists it's time that Quinn came out-at least from hibernation. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy-okay, a hot guy-and falls, hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending-if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story.
This little book packs a large punch. I am in awe of the vivid imagery and language throughout this novel. I love the voice of our main character Quinn. The entire time I was reading this book I could truly imagine him sitting in front of me telling me a story about his life. Which oddly enough is how Quinn sees his own life is as a story as another one of his screenplays. I love the fact that he is very much a character that you find yourself empathizing with and I I honeslty feel as though I have been in the depressed state that he finds himself in throughout the novel. I think the way this book deals with hard hitting topics while still not taking itself too seriously is masterfully done and I will now be hunting down all other books that this author does.
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18 January, 2020:
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