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Lucky Fools (2012)

by Coert Voorhees(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1423123980 (ISBN13: 9781423123989)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Hyperion Books for Children

review 1: Adults and teenagers alike will be drawn into the high-pressure world portrayed in "Lucky Fools," while relishing Voorhees' ability to satirize life in the epicenter of 1 percent-dom. For senior drama student David Ellison, starring in the school play is just a small step towards true achievement. For everyone around him, college applications--Stanford's in particular--are an obsession. Voorhees has a knack for language and a sympathetic ear for the troubles of young adults, making this book both witty and absorbing.
review 2: David Ellison has known that he wants to be an actor ever since he starred in a commercial for Sparkles iced tea in junior high. Throughout his four years at Oak Field Prep, a prestigious California prep school, he has earned a reputatio... moren as a talented actor; much to his father’s dismay, his dream is to go Juilliard to follow this dream. The auditions for Juilliard are fast approaching and so is his final school play at Oak Prep – a stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Though he professes to love his long term girlfriend Ellen, David can’t help feeling attracted to his co-star, the beautiful and mysterious Vanessa. Meanwhile, a vandal who calls himself The Artist is causing a stir by publically exposing the secrets of the school’s elite students and staff.On the positive side, the book’s title is certainly apt. David screws up a lot, but everything turns out pretty well for him in the end and through not much effort on his part. This book isn’t badly written, it’s just difficult to care about David or any of the other characters. They are all wealthy white people who have the advantage of a prep school education, college coaches and parents who have both money and influence. David is self-absorbed and often dishonest, and his character doesn’t really develop much throughout the book. In the end David comes to a realization about the ways in which he’s been simply playing the roles set out for him instead of being himself, but he expresses this realization in a completely selfish way. David ends up using his so called epiphany as the topic of the essay that his college coach helps him write. The essay gets him into Stanford, which is what his parents wanted him to do all along, making the reader question whether he’s really changed at all or if he’s just happy being a lucky fool. less

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