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Geekhood: Close Encounters Of The Girl Kind (2012)

by Andy Robb(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1847152317 (ISBN13: 9781847152312)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Stripes Publishing

series

Geekhood

review 1: Archie, the boy that this book is about, is awkward, has mood swings, is sometimes silly & finds talking about his feeling difficult - so a typical male teenager really! This book caused me to embarressingly snort with laughter on buses , then surprised me with a really tender scene between Archie & his dad. Would be enjoyed by boys of 13+ , no doubt they would empathise with Archie secretly whilst publicly taking the mick. When working in a school library, I encountered many boys just like Archie and I still think of them with real affection.
review 2: This book started off really well; I could relate to the characters and the everyday 'geek' life of Archie. However, towards the middle of the book it started to go a bit weird with the stuff about the Physic S... moreelf voice in his head. I thought that it was a bit too weird. I defiantly think that I could relate to Archie's IM (Interior Monologue). I think that Archie's journey of self discovery was over the top. Also during his period of self discovery I started to grow apart from Archie as a character as I felt he was being quite asshole in the way he was treating his friends; I felt that he was quite shallow during the this part of the story. To me it seems that he was being a selfish idiot and he only started his 'journey of self discovery' to impress Sarah, which in my opinion was overly desperate and quite bitchy just to leave his friends because a book a girl gave him is telling him to do so. All in all I thought Andy Robb's portrayal of a Geeky Teen was right on but if he were to re-write this book I would say change the story line and completely erase the physic self aspect. I don't mind if he still takes Archie on a journey of self discovery but I felt the route he took in the book was too brash. less

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