Ganz in Ordnung aber ein bisschen cheesy.

{3.5 Stars}

Leuk geschreven!! Maar de 'basis', een slim, nerdy meisje dat niet zo veel vrienden heeft en wil veranderen om wel cool gevonden te worden, is wel een beetje nageaapt van de Geek girl serie van Holly Smale. Ik kijk wel uit naar It-girl 2 die er aan komt!

Loved the voice and loved the characters

het eerste deel heb ik alleen maar zitten lachen, buikpijn had ik. daarna werd het verhaal gewoon grappig, en heb ik er ook van genoten. snel verder met deel 2!

Actual rating: 2.5 stars.

Sometimes I felt the humour was a bit try too hard and not for my taste. Plus, some of the joke executions would not have worked well in the note/email format that the author kept pushing. I don't know anyone who emails their friend instead of just texting them? Even if you're on the computer, your phone is normally next to you! So the email chains and the note passing (even in class you would text instead of passing notes!) really jolted me out of the story. It's a really stupid little thing, but overtime I kept thinking WHY? The dad marrying a super famous actress I could belief but the emailing instead of texting was too much for my suspension of disbelief.

For the most part though, I enjoyed it. Especially how it subverted my expectations for the new wife and new step-sister. It's not as good as Geek Girl (Harriet Manners will always be queen of the humorous list and silly mistakes!) so I wold always recommend that over this, but it's got promise and I'll probably continue.

I really didn't enjoy this book, I found that it was sort of dragging and long winded, it seemed like a poor mans version of Geek Girl by Holly Smale.

This book is very lighthead and simple but its not amazings. Do not expect it to win lots of awards.

Tries too hard to be funny (like just about every sentence), but often succeeds.
Similar to the book "Big Mouth & Ugly Girl," because it's about teens who exchange e-mails. This book was published in 2015, so it seems kind of old fashioned for teens to be exchanging e-mails instead of texting. I assume even most 12 year olds have smartphones nowadays. I was using mostly instant messengers myself as a teen in the early 2000s.
May look like a long book by its page amount, but it's actually short because a lot of the book are these e-mails where you can just skip over the To/From/Subject parts that take up a lot of the pages.
Also unrealistic in that there are seemingly only 2 popular girls and 1 popular boy in the whole grade. And Anna is supposed to be a loser because she only has 2 friends, but apparently the popular ones only have 2 friends as well, so how exactly are they more popular? Actually, a few other popular kids are named much later in the story, but they're inserted like an afterthought.

Notable quote from one of Anna's e-mails:
"Dancing with a balloon is a reasonable and funny thing to do. It's what Oscar Wilde would have done. It's a scathing comment on our society of dependent and irrational figures who consider themselves incomplete without a significant other."
I liked it because: (a) it mentioned Oscar Wilde, whose play I just finished reading, and (b) because I agree completely with that last line. However, I think it's unrealistic for a 12 year old to be phrasing it quite this way. Scathing? Dependent? Irrational figures? Significant other? Those are all too big of words for a 12 year old. I was of the same opinion as a 12 year old, and I think I would've phrased it like this: "Dances are stupid. You have to pay money to be in a noisy room full of kids you can't stand, watching them pretend to like their partners who they won't even be with in a week or two." And I was more eloquent than most. Plus, why would a 12 year old even know about Oscar Wilde? I guess realism was exchanged for humor.
And by the way, despite what Anna said in the above quote, she most definitely does want to go to the dance, which disappointed me, because I would've found it more interesting to read about a girl who boycots the dance.