This may be one of those books I need to read rather than listen to. I only got 10% though when I needed to turn it off. We have a girl who started tutoring one of the most popular boys in school. And the tutoring turned into a relationship. But it was a secret relationship that the tutor thought many knew about. That is until the day she finds out she was a “beard” to cover who Nate the basketball star was really dating. But now these two exes are going at each other, and Nate was found bloody on the flow of the locker room.

This book was a little too John Tucker Must Die for me at the moment. I do think I would enjoy this more if I was reading it. We see the point of view of the different characters, but the beard action and dating two girls at once, it just gets to me and is not really my thing. I thought this would be a perfect fit as I did enjoy John Tucker. Either I didn’t get far enough, and it’s the readers’ fault, or the start of the story is too long. Not sure what but that is where I am at right now. 

 

It’s senior year and Eleanor just wants more people to participate in the LGBTQ Club.  But after some miscommunication about BLT club and sandwiches, their club is not as popular as it could have been.  But one of the popular girls is found dead (by the lockers I think but can’t remember), and everyone blames the LGBTQ Club.  Now they must clear their name or else. 

I really wanted to like this book.  However, at 49% complete on my audiobook, I remember almost none of it.  It is very campy and feels a bit like the Breakfast Club meets Paul Blart.  This book was so cheesy and over the top that I found myself letting my mind wonder which is how I got to 49%.  I was listening to this in the car.  The one place I can be fully engrossed in audiobooks, and this one did not engross me.  I don’t know if I would like this book better if I read it, or if this book is just not for me.  And while this was not my cup of tea, I do know some teens who will love this book. 

 This is supposed to be a werewolf horror novel. Where is the horror. The first chapter or prologue was interesting from the historical aspect but once you hit San Francisco, everything just turned boring. Maybe 20% isn’t enough time to get into more action but so far all they’ve done is drive out to the desert. And the fact I don’t recall anybody by names it baby girl and this and that and just no thank you. I wanted to like this book but currently I do not. 

 

I’ve listened to an hour of this and don’t remember a bit of it. There’s a haunted house, they’re making a movie or documentary, and that’s as much as I know. I don’t think it’s the audiobook. I didn’t mind the reader and there’s other characters that have voices. I think for me I need to read the story to get everything out of it. I’m still not sure. I couldn’t understand if they’re high school students or college students. I think the story is there. I just don’t think it was working as an audiobook to keep my attention. 

 

This graphic novel is about an interim student government who takes over the university because the powers that be are choosing to close the university to mine for gold. The first 40 pages of this book are not only boring they are kind of annoying. The best way to describe it is Paris Geller university years. We already saw that in the Gilmore Girls and that was way more entertaining. There is also the Alpha’s from Revenge of the Nerds. The real student council who are going to go figure out what these interims are doing and take our school back from them because they like money and partying. This book is set at a university and there will probably be some university students who like it. But I as an adult find it my numbingly, boring and quite a bit annoying. 

 Mega man is all grown up. And he got boring. I grew up with mega Man and the adventures were always exciting. Whether you were reading or watching a cartoon Mega Man was exciting. Mega man as an adult is boring. A lot of this is setting up the world and the universe in which we now find Mega Man. Maybe I didn’t get far enough, but this book was boring and put me to sleep. 

 This manga does not really make sense. One girl is dead. Her roommate is sad. She’s at a school for witches. But there’s some type of war going on where people have died. And apparently a 10-year-old semi bimbo who was just covered in death but seems to be this amazing killing machine is now moving into the school. And let’s not forget about the nurse that looks more like a prostitute. This book makes little no sense. I get the feeling it was started as included chapters in something else. But altogether I just find this confusing and I have no desire to finish it. 

 

This book is a DNF at 97 pages. Two cute boys in boarding school like each other, but one is very uptight and the other is more lackadaisical and fun loving. There is something going on with the uptight one something about their father and needing to keep things on the down low. So Our fun loving guy who is an actor, keep things on the downlow for the other person even though it makes him a different person. This is just too much drama. I understand the serious boy wants to stay in the closet and has something to do with his father. There’s a section about consent. That is kind of nice. Nice is the wrong word but when you see it, you would get it. However, 97 pages felt like 300 pages. It felt like this was never ending and I have no desire to read the next 196 pages. 

 Why does this book move so slowly? This book was a DNF. Each page is flooded with words. And unfortunately, the story isn’t entertaining enough to keep me flipping pages. 

 I freely admit this is a DNF at 50%. I just can’t take it anymore. Fantastic frog and amazing Ted Lad are experiments who have been given super strength and the ability to fly but share a brain between the two of them. I don’t like how the book is constantly using putdowns like dumb and stupid. And while I get that this is for kids, it feels like a grown-up talking down to kids instead of actually getting down on kids levels. It’s also overly long. I do think they should have kept this shorter than 200 pages instead of having two or three stories with an intermission, it should have stopped after they finished the first mission. Because after the first mission, I could not go on anymore. I wanted to like this and somebody will. I just don’t know who that is right now.