I figured I'd try it out and probably DNF. That's not what happened at all.
I'm a sucker for quiet girls/bad boy stories when done right. Because I was a quiet girl first noticed by a bad boy and sucked along for the ride. I really connected with Ruby, and in part her mother. This is a much better depiction than the vast majority of such pairings in YA.
Then came the Casserole Queens book club, and their quest. It was really fucking good. Besides a few bumps in the beginning of tired ass sayings like "oh the boys making fun of you will be fat and bald or gay" and describing a deer running away "like fleeing a domestic situation".
And the fucking awful Asian stereotype accent. Harold coming out as "herro". REALLY? REALLY?
Too bad, otherwise it would've been 4 stars.
“And he wears his money like a cologne. Frankly, I don’t like the smell.”
“Sometimes we are so convinced someone is throwing us a life preserver that we don’t notice that what they are actually doing I downing us.”
“Lillian is not an umbrella stand. Ask her. She understands everything perfectly.”
“A lady I will be, but a man’s accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone’s ornament. I will not just be someone’s honey, baby, sweetheart.