Author: Annie Barrows
Publication Date: September 5th 2017
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Part of a Series?: No, A Standalone
I Got A Copy Through: Harper Collins India (THANK YOU!)
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Blurb Description: From Annie Barrows, the acclaimed #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the author of the award-winning and bestselling Ivy + Bean books, this teen debut tells the story of Charlotte and Frankie, two high school students and best friends who don’thave magical powers, fight aliens, crash their cars, get pierced, or discover they are royal. They just go to school. And live at home. With their parents. A great read for fans of Becky Albertalli, Louise Rennison, and Adi Alsaid.
Nothing ever happens to Charlotte and Frankie. Their lives are nothing like the lives of the girls they read about in their YA novels. They don’t have flowing red hair, and hot romantic encounters never happen—let alone meeting a true soul mate.
They just go to high school and live at home with their parents, who are pretty normal, all things considered. But when Charlotte decides to write down everything that happens during their sophomore year—to prove that nothing happens and there is no plot or character development in real life—she’s surprised to find that being fifteen isn’t as boring as she thought.
It’s weird, heartbreaking, silly, and complicated. And maybe, just perfect.
In Short: I’m
a little surprised that a book titled Nothing
that promised me NOTHING surprised me when it was ACTUALLY A BOOK ABOUT
NOTHING. (And my feelings are SO MIXED UP.)
Before I begin talking about this book, do me a favour and
close your eyes.
Imagine that you’re texting your best friend in a hurry,
with disjointed sentences and things that only make sense 50% of the time. Can
you see it? All the ‘likes’ and the ‘OMGs’ and the analogies that make almost
no sense because you’re freaking out about something.
Have you ever told your best friend that if anyone read your
texts, that you’d be committed into a mental institution as well as them because
the trauma was irreparable?
WELL, THAT’S WHAT
READING THIS BOOK WAS LIKE. I feel like I was THROWN into a TWO HUNDRED PAGE
TEXTING THING BETWEEN TWO BEST
FRIENDS and I feel TRAUMATIZED as I come out on the other side.
“Then that asshole Kellen comes over and starts leaning over Cora, right in front of Frankie. What the fuck? He doesn’t know Frankie likes him? He’s a dick. And Cora’s squealing, ‘Get away, get awaaaay.’”
Honestly, I WAS SO ANNOYED WITH THE WAY THIS ENTIRE BOOK WAS
WRITTEN. It was disjointed, horrid and made me feel like someone with obscenely
long nails was scratching their way up a blackboard.
Nothing is told in
alternate points of view between Charlotte and Frankie, two fifteen year old
best friends with who get like ‘two hundred texts a day’ but ‘nothing’ ever
happens to them and ALL THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THEIR LIVES.
Despite the fact that I read this book in less than a day, I
kept thinking about how I WOULDN’T BE READING this book if it wasn’t a review
copy.
I just feel like despite I LOVE the Young Adult Genre, there
are books like Nothing that I’ve
outgrown and honestly, shouldn’t be reading.
I didn’t enjoy this book at all, and I’m going to go and
read something I know I’ll love right now! 2 stars.
Annie grew up in Northern California, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, with a degree in Medieval History. Unable to find a job in the middle ages, she decided upon a career as an editor, eventually landing at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, where she was in charge of "all the books that nobody in their right mind would publish." After earning an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Mills College, Annie wrote (as Ann Fiery) a number of books for grown-ups about such diverse subjects as fortune-telling (she can read palms!), urban legends (there are no alligators in the sewer!), and opera (she knows what they're singing about!). In 2003, Annie grew weary of grown-ups, and began to write for kids, which she found to be way more fun.
Find Annie on her website, http://anniebarrows.com/
Have you read Nothing? What did you think of it?
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