Queen of Cool, Cecil Castellucci
Jun. 8th, 2007 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_schrapnellWell, it was going to be tough to go right after The Green Glass Sea, though I chose the most different book I could think of to follow it to minimize the effect.
I liked Boy Proof, though not as much as everyone else did, and liked Queen of Cool less, so am falling farther out of step. It's not the book's fault that it felt a bit too much like a film - and a film I'd probably quite have enjoyed watching, as it's clever and very funny in parts. Nor that it seems like a bit of a shadow*of E. Lockhart's The Boyfriend List and The Boy Book, both of which I loved.
* I started to say a pale imitation, but that carries connotations I don't mean at all.
Cool kid, in with the dripping-with-ennui cool gang, who starts to question whether it's really where she wants to be. High school is hell. (Though with an extra, thrown-in dose of maybe it's not unremittingly fun to be grown up and doing what you hate, either. Which is a bit of a change.) It's good, but I just couldn't seem to manage to fit in with the cool reading gang and love it.
I liked Boy Proof, though not as much as everyone else did, and liked Queen of Cool less, so am falling farther out of step. It's not the book's fault that it felt a bit too much like a film - and a film I'd probably quite have enjoyed watching, as it's clever and very funny in parts. Nor that it seems like a bit of a shadow*of E. Lockhart's The Boyfriend List and The Boy Book, both of which I loved.
* I started to say a pale imitation, but that carries connotations I don't mean at all.
Cool kid, in with the dripping-with-ennui cool gang, who starts to question whether it's really where she wants to be. High school is hell. (Though with an extra, thrown-in dose of maybe it's not unremittingly fun to be grown up and doing what you hate, either. Which is a bit of a change.) It's good, but I just couldn't seem to manage to fit in with the cool reading gang and love it.
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Date: 2007-06-10 02:04 am (UTC)-MotherReader
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Date: 2007-06-10 10:17 pm (UTC)