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.
Quinn's struggle with coming to terms with the loss of his sister, his friend, his movie making partner was heartbreaking, but I commend his friend for giving him that push to keep living despite his pain. There are some moments that made me cry, but there were so many more, that made me laugh. Federle wrote Quinn with a great sense of humor, and I enjoyed getting to know him and see him make progress towards forgiving himself. I also liked Geoff a lot. He was a good friend, regardless of what was revealed, and I thought he and Quinn had a great dynamic.
