at first the overly conical and sarcastic commentary was fun - for the first 10-20 pages.

and then it got repetitive and over the top and quiet honestly ridiculous!

it’s not that i can’t see how difficult it must be for a teenager to not only go through parents that divorced, a new half sibling but also an entire uprooting of everything else he knows by moving to a different country and having to start completely new without knowing anything and anyone there.

that’s understandably overwhelming and also understandably something that especially someone at 16 could loudly and repeatedly complain about. and most likely actively make more difficult simply because they don’t want it.

but i also think that the overly generalized and i found often sexist remarks grated on me pretty fast.
and while i am sure i wouldn’t be the best friend of a cheerleader as they are typically portrayed in us teenager drama movies, i also don’t think that it’s necessary to go out of your way to be mean to them and call them names or accuse them of having pregnancy scares and deciding that you will call them different typical cheerleader names instead of their real ones simply because... well i guess for no real reason other then personal bitterness of ones one situation and the inability to see that trying to get along with the situation might make it all easier.

i just didn’t like norris and his obsessive way to make everything not only about him but also as if every single person purely existed to make his life more difficult.



especially since his life wasn’t bad to begin with.

sure the move must be hard but he had a clearly loving mother who tried her best to help him ease into it all and make it as comfortable as she could.
and everything he could do was complain.
about everything.
constantly.


and while it got better towards the end - all in all o don’t think the book was that well done as it could been and not was funny either.

or in other words?
it wasn’t my type of humor after a few pages because it became too aggressively hurtful towards people that didn’t die anything wrong

not every book is for everyone and this book clearly wasn’t for me.


doesn’t means it isn’t for anyone and i think that if it’s sounds good, give it a try and see if the pretty biting tone of norris agrees with you.

all in all for me this was disappointing and not what i wanted or expected at all.
oh well maybe the next book by this author will be more to my reading tastes