Author: Melissa Keil
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2013
Pages: 305
Let's have a rest from the 'Bones' series and review a high-school-themed novel.
This novel follows Sam Kinnison, a 16 (going on 17)-year-old geek who meets a girl named Camila Carter, an Australian who has come back from England with her journalist father. This book is set over the course of a year. Sam reckons that Camila is a beautiful girl who would disrupt him from his geeky world, so he tries to ignore her only to find out that Camila is somehow attached to him. I have to be honest about the fact that the ending is very predictable - typical high-school life.
My favourite character is Sam. I can relate to his vocation of staying single and rather have a deep passion for maintaining healthy grades and movies (well, for me it's 'Bones'). We also share the characteristics of awkward behaviour and staying strong but careless when facing situations of derision.
What I enjoyed most about this book is the message we also learned in physics: like-poles repel, but opposite poles attract. I liked the fact that before these two fell for each other, there was a friendship story. If you know me personally you'll assume that I do not believe in 'love at first sight' and that I believe in learning the other individual's personality before jumping to conclusions.
I think that this book shares the same plot as 'Geek Charming', a movie I watched when I had an obsession with Disney movies. A movie geek finds this fashionable girl and eventually sparks up a connection with each other.
Nevertheless, I recommend this book to teenagers who struggle to fit in socially at school (like me). That is unless you don't mind underage drinking and a mild level of profanity.
- M ★
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