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Making Friends with Alice Dyson
by Poppy Nwosu
Disclaimer: I received this arc from the publisher for a tour. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book: Making Friends With Alice Dyson
Author: Poppy Nwosu
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3/5
Recommended For...: contemporary lovers, friendship stories
Publication Date: September 15, 2020
Genre: YA Contemporary
Recommended Age: 15+ (bullying, gossip, family issues, slight romance)
Publisher: Walker Books US
Pages: 276
Synopsis: My hand, which is following a stray pencil rolling across the floor, stops dead right in front of two ratty green sneakers.
My gaze follows the shoes up over long legs to a towering figure.
I stand abruptly.
Tall, black eyes, messy hair, a permanent scowl on a permanently angry face. Our school’s delinquent, a waster, the kind of boy who always sits at the back of class. The kind of boy even popular people like Sophia are afraid of.
Teddy Taualai.
Alice Dyson knows exactly how she’ll be spending her final year of high school. With her head down, quietly concentrating on her textbooks and homework. She’s focused on the future, and nothing and no one is going to get in her way. Until a bizarre encounter with the school’s most notorious troublemaker derails all her plans, turning Alice into the unwilling centre of attention and her life into one enormous complication.
And even worse? Now Teddy Taualai won’t leave her alone.
A story about rumours, friendship, and discovering who you really are.
Review: For the most part I thought that this was an okay book. The plot is pretty well done and for the most part I really did like the characters. The characters are what really drove the story and I think if I didn't have them then I wouldn't have been interested in the book.
However the book is very weirdly written. The book feels written younger than what the characters are and the book begins in a really weird manner. The flashbacks are also very disorienting and I thought that the bizarre event that is talked about in the book was not that bizarre from what I remembered when I was in high school and as a slightly rebellious child.
Verdict: It was good, just weird.
Book: Making Friends With Alice Dyson
Author: Poppy Nwosu
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3/5
Recommended For...: contemporary lovers, friendship stories
Publication Date: September 15, 2020
Genre: YA Contemporary
Recommended Age: 15+ (bullying, gossip, family issues, slight romance)
Publisher: Walker Books US
Pages: 276
Synopsis: My hand, which is following a stray pencil rolling across the floor, stops dead right in front of two ratty green sneakers.
My gaze follows the shoes up over long legs to a towering figure.
I stand abruptly.
Tall, black eyes, messy hair, a permanent scowl on a permanently angry face. Our school’s delinquent, a waster, the kind of boy who always sits at the back of class. The kind of boy even popular people like Sophia are afraid of.
Teddy Taualai.
Alice Dyson knows exactly how she’ll be spending her final year of high school. With her head down, quietly concentrating on her textbooks and homework. She’s focused on the future, and nothing and no one is going to get in her way. Until a bizarre encounter with the school’s most notorious troublemaker derails all her plans, turning Alice into the unwilling centre of attention and her life into one enormous complication.
And even worse? Now Teddy Taualai won’t leave her alone.
A story about rumours, friendship, and discovering who you really are.
Review: For the most part I thought that this was an okay book. The plot is pretty well done and for the most part I really did like the characters. The characters are what really drove the story and I think if I didn't have them then I wouldn't have been interested in the book.
However the book is very weirdly written. The book feels written younger than what the characters are and the book begins in a really weird manner. The flashbacks are also very disorienting and I thought that the bizarre event that is talked about in the book was not that bizarre from what I remembered when I was in high school and as a slightly rebellious child.
Verdict: It was good, just weird.