My feelings are quite mixed with this one. There are indeed heart warming parts and some hilarious moments. However, the flaws were glaring and I have a lot of issues with it. I know that this novel is more of a feel good, escapist work and I have no prejudice against escapist works. Stephanie Perkins' works had escapist plots that had the everything-went-perfect feel but her wonderful writing and gift for creating developed romance made her works stand out from the other feel good works. In this one, I was rather annoyed with several aspects of the novel and I will enumerate them below:1.Dan's obsession with estelle. It felt over the top. I just dislike obsession. I mean come on, you just saw the girl and then suddenly you can't forget her and now you act like a stalker? This isn't the direction that I wanted for this novel.I believe that romantic development is something that occurs over a long period of time. It doesn't happen in an instant. And why does he keep on talking about estelle for several chapters? What happened to "plot progression?"2.The message of the novel. This isn't the direction I wanted. You see Dan is a nerd who badly wants to become cool. I understand where he's coming from because even up till now, I also want to be cool and popular in school. But what I don't like is how Dan started becoming more and more cool by doing work outs and weight lifting. I thought that the novel would deliver a subtle message that being a nerd is also cool in its own different way. But because Dan started becoming cool, the nerd image became even more degraded.3. Dan's juvenile narration. Well I guess it isn't the author's fault that I can no longer relate that much to a 15 year old who's a little immature and at times annoying. 15 year olds are normally like that so Im giving props to the author for writing a believable narration. Had I read this novel when I was at dan's age, I might've liked it more.4. Cliched rom com plot. This plot of a nerd boy falling for that perfect beautiful girl. . . . . . and the girl miraculously liking the guy back, I wonder where I have seen this. Oh wait! This is the plot of thousands of romantic comedy films out there (cough* she's out of my league cough*).Come on! What happened to plot "originality"? Why does this feel like a typical soap opera? What happened to the concept of realism? The plot was too much of an escapist work. I mean in real life, it's unlikely that a brilliant, perfect girl would fall for a nerd guy. I wish this book had a better grasp of the reality that these genre cliches don't always happen in real life.Highly disappointing. This book could've been a part of my favorites. At the first part, I was sure that this would garner 4-5 stars because Dan is just like me. I have almost felt everything he has felt back when I was at his age. I was also a nerd like him who was trying to be cool. I liked a girl and did things I never thought I could do just to win her. I understand all of that, but his narration just didn't work for me. He was always blabbering about Estelle for multiple chapters and it just weakened the plot progression during the middle part. Perhaps if I read this back when I was in high school, it might've earned more stars from me. But now that I'm in college, I just can't tolerate books with immature narration filled with obsessive remarks. I guess I'm just getting mature for books like this.I guess the author and I have a different sense of direction with a plot like this. I wish this book took a fresh new approach to typical feel good books. But alas, she went for the stereotypical, cliched approach. I will still be reading Wildlife though because I heard that the characters were more mature in fiona wood's new YA novel. This is one of those gems you pick and say to yourself "I need to do so many other things today, like housework, the washing, making soup, your own writing...but I'll just read one chapter first" and then the next few hours you keep looking at your watching thinking "I really should be getting on...", but you can't tear yourself away from the world and characters that Fiona Wood has created. Eventually you put your hands in the air (figuratively speaking of course) and give yourself six things to ponder:-1. it's so good2. it's so good3. it's so good4. it's so good5. it's so good6. it's so goodTimes that by 100 and you've possibly summed up how you've feel about this novel.
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I absolutely loved this book! It was so funny, I wish it was longer! Definitely could read it again!
—none
this is seriously good YA.what do they have in the water down there in Australia??
—emsapurple
Really enjoyed reading this! Well written as well!
—shetty
