Noah Can't Even

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Parental falsehoods, potential half-siblings and crazy school girls are just some of the unwanted dramas Noah finds himself facing. Tak, tak, wiem, Noah jest szkolnym nerdem, ale wiecie, w przeciwieństwie do Polski, oni tam mają w Wielkiej Brytanii w szkole taki przedmiot jak edukacja seksualna.

Is he gay, who is his mom dating, is his dad really dead, will he pay blackmailers, why is he popular all of a sudden, and shouldn’t he try kissing a girl? It didn’t throw me out of enjoyment that it got melodramatic at points, because the author kept it funny and moving.It’s a tad soap opera equivalent in how one thing after another befalls him, but would I read it if all was well?

As if questioning his sexuality and his friendship with Harry wasn't enough, throw in a Dad who has gone AWOL, a loud, foul mouthed Mum who moonlights as a Beyoncé tribute, an 80s-music-loving Gran with dementia who is plotting an escape from her care home, and a plethora of school related trouble - and Noah just CAN'T EVEN. At the party, after the self-brought booze ánd the punch have played havoc, Harry tells Noah he's gay - and then kisses Noah. Overall I think my main problem with this book was it's immaturity, it felt very juvenile in the way it dealt with some topics. Simon James Green grew up in a small town in Lincolnshire that definitely wasn’t the inspiration for Little Fobbing – so no-one from there can be mad with him, OK? With an absentee father, a pain-in-the-arse mother, a badass gran, and the most wonderful best-mate a boy could hope for, Noah Grimes really has A LOT to deal with.His father disappeared years ago, his mother’s Beyonce tribute act is an unacceptable embarrassment, and his beloved gran is no longer herself.

Noah Can’t Even was Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award, won the Wirral Paperback of the Year, was shortlisted for the Leeds Book Awards and got Bronze in the Amazing Book Awards! The Harry we first meet, with his jolly, good-natured enthusiasm for Noah's crush on Sophie, has no connection with the Harry who's supposedly been in love with Noah all along. I'm not a teen, and so most teen books are not written with me in mind and of course that's the way it should be. I just wanted to throw it out there that leaving reviews are more important than you might imagine, not just to the authors. There were loads of mom-and-dad shenanigans, and a sub plot involving another girl, blackmail, and gobs of Noah consistently in-denial thoughts.All in all, if you like YA with wonderful, funny writing, and are looking for a book that's more about peer pressure and crazy teen family drama, with minimal romance on page, you'll love this. I'm not even sure if I really liked this book because I can't decide if it was meant to be funny or whether it was bad. There's a nice HFN that's appropriate for the age of the characters, but also an obvious set-up for a sequel. Which I expected because Noah is socially inept, there were moments he would talk like an adult, a very wise one at that, but interacting with people were a no-no.

Maybe if he struck up a romantic relationship with someone - maybe Sophie, who is perfect and lovely - he'd be seen in a different light? Noah thinks he likes a girl, though his sexual development has been a bit slow on the uptake (he's 15). Dziewczyny są puszczalskie, oprócz oczywiście tej jednej jedynej przyjaciółki Noah, która nie jest i która od razu wie, że Noah jest gejem, mimo że on sam twierdzi, że nie jest i absolutnie temu zaprzecza. He is bullied and ignored, and shelters his soul within elaborate game-playing scenarios with Harry.Green's story fulfils the criteria of the original ánd the present-day meaning of the term "comedy". When Noah's best friend Harry kisses him at a party, Noah is shocked (but not altogether disappointed). Though she did end up serving the straight person telling the non-straight person they aren't straight trope.