On the first day of his senior year of high school, Greg Gaines thinks he has survived the day intact and unobserved--about as good as he can expect from high school, so, not a bad day. Within hours of getting home, his mom drops a bomb on him....a girl he knows from Hebrew school has cancer...and his mom wants him to spend time with her. Can you say awkward? Greg and Rachel aren't really friends, but there is no way his mom is backing down on this one. Greg and Rachel start hanging out and eventually Greg's only other friend, Earl, enters the picture. Earl and Greg are amateur filmmakers, but refuse to let anyone else see what they have created....until Earl offers their movies up to Rachel as a way to try to cheer her up. Everything snowballs from there.
This is probably my least favorite book I've read all year so far. It started out with promise--I actually laughed out loud during the first few pages. But gratuitous use of off-color language pretty quickly turned me off....and I didn't really like any of the characters but Rachel by the end of the book, and Rachel wasn't really that fleshed out....so that tells you how much I really didn't like the rest of the cast. I actually contemplated putting it down and not finishing it after about 75 pages, but decided to slog through it in the hopes that it would improve. Unfortunately, that never happened. :(
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