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He Said, She Said (2013)

by Kwame Alexander(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

006211896X (ISBN13: 9780062118967)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Amistad

review 1: On the heels of a state championship, gridiron star Omar (T-Diddy) Smalls is basking in the after-glow and fending off the attentions of various females in his Charleston high school willing to tend to his physical needs while he waits to head off to Miami for college. Given to referring to himself in the third person, Omar is clearly a player or playa as the vernacular would have it. Senior Claudia Clarke couldn't be more different from Omar. She's a straight A student and school newspaper editor, bound for Harvard. When one of his friends bets that T-Diddy will fail to charm her and coax her to bed, T-Diddy puts all his efforts into doing just that. The two become the leaders of a student protest against the extreme cuts their school is experiencing. The library hours ar... moree reduced, teachers are put on part-time status, and many extracurricular activities, including dance, drama, and the band are cut. It turns out that there is more to both T-Diddy and to Claudia than is evident on the surface, but can their possible romance survive all of the strikes it has against it? Although the plot is pretty predictable, I liked the characters and the chapters told in the alternating voices of Omar and Claudia. The idea of speaking up by remaining silent is a fascinating one too. The dialogue here crackles with life, and teen readers will enjoy the inclusion of tweets and Facebook entries as well, allowing the comments to appear rapidly. The inclusion of the rival football team members that kept showing up was sort of annoying and distracted me from the main event.
review 2: 3.5 stars for this brisk, slangy first-person duet, a rather fresh observation of the over-explored formula of the outwardly mismatched, initially combative couple. He's the jock; she's the brain, yeah yeah - but they are both so darn cute, and quick, and surprising when they need to be. Protagonists and most characters are African American; this book resides on the gentle side of urban teen lit, and may be the only book in the genre that features a cameo by Pat Conroy. less

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