by Carrie Mesrobian
On Friday I remembered that I had book club on Sunday and that the author, Carrie Mesrobian was invited to talk about the book. I had a super busy weekend planned and knew that it would probably be near impossible to finish the book but I gave it a try because you're supposed to actually read the bo...
I won this book in a Giveaway! I liked this book...It was an easy read and really well written. I don't know what it is really like to be a teenage boy so I'm not sure if it is accurate. It was and interesting story though.
I loved Mesrobian’s debut, so I was looking forward to her second (unconnected) book. Sean is a fascinating character, and it’s a quick, tight read that doesn’t sacrifice depth. I liked the portrayal of Sean’s decision to go into the military, which seemed thoughtful and nuanced from my outsider’s p...
Pitch-perfect dialogue and narrative prose reveal teen culture and the journey of self-discovery. Few adults have the spot-on sense of teenage culture that novelist Carrie Mesrobian has. Critically acclaimed for her candid young-adult novel, Sex & Violence, Mesrobian continues to study the late ad...
When you read a book and you feel like the main character could just walk into the room. This book does that. Sean is so real he walks off the page.
Disclaimer: I am friends with Carrie and I was a pre-reader for part of Perfectly Good White Boy while she was writing it. She gave me a copy of the books as a gift. I am not being compensated in anyway for this honest review. Trigger Warnings: The book contains mentions of abortion, and has two s...
When Sean went to that party, he wasn’t expecting to hook up with the likes of Hallie. Not pretty Hallie. It was an accident which started with a Frisbee, moved along rather quickly and soon they were a couple. Hallie got under my skin right away with her bossy attitude but I figured that had to do ...
***Virtually spoiler-free!*** One-sentence review: Beautiful and so real, this is the deceptively simple story of a boy stumbling and staggering toward maturity, but with a mesmerizing internal grace. What? Lizzie Bennet is writing a spoiler-free review? I know, the world must be ending, right? ...
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