So Over You -Gwen Hayes

So Over You by Gwen Hayes
Published by Createspace Independent Pub on 2013-10
Genres: Adolescence, Emotions & Feelings, Love & Romance, Social Issues, Young Adult
Pages: 166
Read it as: eBook
Source: Purchased
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Synopsis

Layney Logan, girl reporter. That's all she's ever wanted to be. This year, her senior year, not only does she have to share the coveted Senior Editor position with her arch nemesis, Jimmy Foster, she also has to figure out how to keep the school paper alive. With the local paper closing and the school cutting Journalism from the budget, it's a long shot. Working side-by-side with Foster, the guy she likes to call Lucifer, makes it even worse. The only thing Layney dislikes more than swimming in the high school dating pool is Jimmy Foster thinking he got the best of her, so she takes his ridiculous newspaper assignment--to go on twelve blind dates--to prove his powers of darkness won't work on her. The trouble is, the more she learns about herself on her journey of bad blind dates, the more she wonders if maybe Foster has known her better than she knows herself all this time. And maybe she should have trusted him with the secret she's kept for four years-the secret that broke them up to begin with.

 

 

I know, I know. This book is from 2010! Regardless, it’s one of my favorites too. I’m kinda taking a break from reading books this week 😉 Probably so my parents think I’m not an addict. (Don’t tell them I am!)

On with the review!

“I’d like to make it clear from the start that I am gay, gay,
gay. Like, when I come out of the closet, I’m usually wearing
my sister’s prom dress kind of gay.”

Layney Logan gets stuck having to go to 12 dates with 12 different guys. Wow.

Do you love cute romances with lead characters being quirky and witty? Then you’ll love this book as much as I did. The thing I liked the most, was the light feeling to it. I can easily re-read it whenever I want and my worries slip away reading about the anctics of Laney and Foster. Those two cracked me up.

  “Every time that boy smiles, somewhere a puppy died.”

Laney was an interesting person to read about. She had her flaws, but she didn’t bore me to death. It was actually very refreshing. Her motivation to save the Follower, the school newspaper was what was mainly driving her. And I like people to have motivations so, hooray!

    “Are you sure you’re a girl?”

    I shrugged. “Most of the time.”

And Foster… What can I say about him? If you’ve read the Lux series, by Jennifer L.Armentrout, you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say he’s like a Daemon, minus the alien part, and a few bonus cute points. He’s flirty, but not a complete jerk.

   “The devil was his most dangerous when he wasn’t being devilish.”

Something that bothered me, though, was that, some of the things in this book deserved a bit more attention. I understand why the things developed the way they did, but there’s some deep stuff here, that I’d have wished to see explored more. But , like I said before, if you’re just looking for a good read with lots of fun, you’ll like it.

The writing was powerful because it was simple. It’s simplicity makes you think about a lot of things. Because, the teenage world does look simple in most people’s eyes, but when you look closer, there a thousand things that plague us. There’s a lot of value you can take from this book. The voice doesn’t feel strained, or tries to hard to sound like a teenager. It is a teenager. I can tell Layney apart from anyone any time of the day.

You can read this thing in one sitting, and it’ll probably leave you with a big smile on your face.  It’s the type of book you read in a quiet evening on your bed with no one pestering you.

Heaven 🙂

 

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