This cover turns me off.

Before I started reading 7 Clues to Winning You, I really wanted to pick up a cute contemporary and when I searched for many of the newly released YA contemporaries, this novel popped up from the whole bunch. I am glad to say that 7 Clues to Winning You filled up my craving. I totally adored this novel and I loved the plot, the writing, and the ending!

The story starts with Blythe's life turning upside down. Her dad, in hopes of getting a raise and the position of superintended, moves his family More...

Okay, confession time: I almost passed over reading this book because of the cover. That sounds horribly judgmental, I know! (You shouldn't judge books by their covers!!). Anyhow. For various reasons, the cover just didn't sit well with me, and I thought it might be too 'young'. However, I read and enjoyed Kristin Walker's debut novel A Match Made in High School, so I knew I was going to give it a go. And I am so happy I did! I do think that, unfortunately, this book's cover is misleading. The c More...

Blythe the main character was pretty and popular in her old school, but in her new school she is the principles daughter and a social outcast. This is because the worst, most embarrassing photo of Blythe is all over the internet ruining her social reputation forever. In order to change her social status, she has to go underground with the Senior Scramble scavenger hunt to win the hunt. If Blythe wins she has a chance to make amends with the whole school, but when she falls for Luke, she puts mor More...

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Kristin Walker has an incredible writing ability to develop such lovable characters. These characters have amazing personalities and attitudes. I absolutely loved Cy, Jenna, Ms. Franny, Ms. Eulalie, Blythe, and Luke.

The storyline with the Senior Scramble allowed the pace of the book to remain entertaining. It never felt dragging or boring. The pace was just right and I was pleased with every page of 7 Clues to Winning You.
In the beginning I thou More...

"Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps..."
-Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

This book is cute with a capital C! There were many times I couldn't help but laugh out loud. Light-hearted, funny, and sweet, 7 Clues is the relaxing vacation you need from a tedious week at work or school.

Serious books are great and all, but every now and then it's really nice to have a book chock full of humor, not to mention extremely lovable characters. And let me tell you, this book is More...

when the book first started i wasnt sure if i will like blythe because she was making a huge deal about moving and accusing her father of being too ambitious and she seems like a trying hard to be perfect student. as the story progressed i felt bad for her and at the same time annoyed with her for making mistake after mistake. and yet i actually liked her enough to root for her. i wanted her to succeed - i guess thats how good the author was in creating a flawed but great character.

i didnt like More...

Truth to be told, I read this because Walker`s previous book,A Match Made in High School nailed it for me..And what a surprise, it didn`t work for this one like I was hoping for.sigh..
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The story was about a girl, named Blythe whom had to transfer from Meriton to Ash Groove, which purely meant, classy to white trash. It sound like a typical downfall, except that her admission was first historically corrupted by a famous picture. A picture of her, aka the daughter of Ash Grove`s principal picking More...

Wow. I mean, just wow. This book totally turned me on.

Blythe had everything planned for her life: graduating as one of the top students in her class, getting Bryn Mawr, and marrying a Haverford husband. She always focused on happy endings. She loves Shakespeare and has this great sense of fashion. She had the coolest friends and the best high school in town.

Then suddenly, her plans seem to mess up when her father decided that they move to Ash Grove and she enroll to the high school there.

This wa More...

I'm not exactly a fan of Kristin Walker's main characters. I find them very whiny and dramatic, or at least that's what I thought when I read A Match Made in High School. But it turns out this book had an even more annoying main character. Sure, I could stand certain things to an extent - the being "bullied", the fact that Blythe had to move away from her old school and house, and Luke Pavel - but when she started to get whiny, all sympathy ceased. I don't understand why feeling sad and angry me More...

Very cute, very funny (at one point, I actually laughed out loud - no spoilers, but it was the part with the old ladies and the convenience store), and very sweet. Kristin Walker is great at writing the friendships that blossom between a boy and girl and then turn into something more. I found Blythe incredibly likeable, even though it was obvious from the beginning that she was a bit of a snob. It was great to see her grow, and really great to read about Luke. =p Aside from that, I think Walker More...

I have a thing for high school romances; always have and hopefully I always will =D

This book was really fun and cute! The only thing I found ridiculous was the 'photo of someone picking their nose n getting totally humiliated as that photo circulates' Dx It was just really... weird and call me stupid if am wrong, but am pretty sure ppl pick their noses all the time!! *shifty eyes*

Oh and the lead guy is so hot!!! LOL... I have a fetish for lean guys in glasses - I've realized that when I met my B More...

Blythe's pleasant suburban high school experience gets submarined when her family has to move to a less exclusive town in order for her dad to get a promotion. But right now he's the principal of her new school, and Blythe is known as "the booger girl."

How Blythe gets through her many mistakes and adolescent unkindnesses and changes some of her views about life, love and her future is entertaingly told. The best thing in the book are two elderly members of an old age home where Blythe volunteers More...

Before I start, the cover was a sort of turn off because I wasn't a big fan of the models on the front. I imagine Luke and Blythe as looking slightly older. Mostly Luke. My image of him is completely different from his picture.

Anyway, I was sort of hesitant to read this book because it seemed like another cliche teeny bopper thingy. But, surprisingly, I was into the book from almost the beginning. It was pretty fsst-paced, which is how I like my novels, and Blythe is a really likeable protagoni More...

I loved Kristin's first book, A MATCH MADE IN HIGH SCHOOL, mostly because it genuinely cracked me up. I expected the same from this new book. I will say, I didn't laugh quite like the first one, but it was okay because I enjoyed the story so much that I read the whole thing in one sitting. My husband is the high school principal of the school my older two attend. That said, I pretty much pictured my daughter telling me this story herself. You gotta feel bad for the principal's kids no matter wha More...

in a way it was predictable but i also loved the way it all happend. you know, its like those stories that you know how it is going to end but its how they got there thats so important. i loved the characters especially the hilarious old ladies! there's a sort of madness in this book that i absolutely loved! i wouldn't suggest anyone over the age of 16 to read it, but it definitely does have big english words though. the way that it was written with al that excitement deffinitely left me wanting More...

This was a really great book! Funny, entertaining, and a really good story. However, the cover really needs to be changed. It's terrible.

This was a fun book. I really liked Blythe. She had a good heart. I loved that she volunteered because she enjoyed it and worked hard to get into a good college. And I loved her fashion sense. That being said, I loved reading her journey into semi-bad-girlness (Yes, I made that word up). She seemed to become a very real teenager.

And I liked Luke too (although how he is described doesn't match the guy on the cover to me). I thought for sure that he was a jerk at first but I was glad to be proven More...

This didn't work for me. NADA. Probably i'm just too old for these books now :/









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I liked this book, the idea of it was fun and I laughed throughout the book! I did feel like B was a bit of an over thinker and made some things extremely complicated for herself at times, but that was a part of her and made the book so much more intriguing.
And I loved the two old ladies she was friends with! They were so much fun and I wish I would have an opportunity to volunteer in a nursing home in my town!
Though, I have to admit, that the cover was a bit of a fail, because it makes the boo More...

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7 Clues to Winning You? Well, I was totally won over!
This novel has definitely been one of my favorite contemporaries that I've read so far this year. Some of the contemporaries which I've been reading this year have kind of been somewhat lacking in the humor department, and I really REALLY love books which can make me laugh non-stop. I mean, common, I'm a bit tired of more "serious" contemporaries, and need something to giggle over. More...

7 Clues to Winning You by Kristin Walker is among my absolute favorite contemporary romance reads. It’s a fabulous blend between fluffy and substance, with well-developed characters who experience growth, a slew of hilarity throughout the plot, and a fun first person narrative that contains these beautiful, meaningful moments of writing. I haven’t read many fluffy-ish contemporary books that show the author’s writing capability to be stunning. It’s a romantic, sweet, totes hilarious novel, whose More...

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Don’t you just love reading books that are so terribly cute that they make you melt into a puddle while reading? I know I do. Funny and totally adorable contemporaries with an interesting story-line can be very hard to find these days, since we tend to compare them to Stephanie Perkins’ Anna and The French Kiss. Well, I can openly say that 7 Clues To Winning You was as good as Anna!

As a result of Blythe’s father obtaining a promotion from Principal to S More...

Title : 7 Clues to Winning You

Series : -
Author : Kristen Walker
Pages : 317
Release Date : April 26th 2012
Publisher : Razorbill / Penguin US
Format : ARC
Source :
**an ARC was provided from Penguin US in exchange of an honest review!*




My Opinion :


7 Clues to Winning You was such a cute and funny and romancy novel! I liked it quite a lot, actually!


7 Clues to Winning You is Kristen Walker's second novel, her first being A Match Made in High School (which, unfortunately, I haven't read). And this book wa More...

So, Blythe is about to go through what all f us high school aged kids fear the most: going to a new school for the rest of junior year and ALL of your senior school year. Top it off with Blythe's father is the principal of this new school, and a very horrid picture of her is like the school mascot (horror of horrors). It's like the cherry on top of a very nasty ice cream sundae.

I found myself empathizing with Blythe on the whole 'changing schools just before your senior year' thing because that' More...

NEGATIVES:

1. Only real problem I had was the conclusion to Blythe’s relationship with her best friend Tara. Tara did a pretty big thing and yet I feel like we didn't explore that aspect enough. To me their relationship was left open ended and I have really no idea what was to come of them. Maybe that was the point? Either way that just bugged me a little.

POSITIVES:

1. I was not expecting to like the story as much as I did. I thought it was just going to be a quick sweet romance but we’re given More...

I recently read and really enjoyed Seven Clues To Winning You. It was such a cute, fun read!

The book follows a girl, Blair, when she transfers to a new school and instantly makes enemies after canceling the annual school tradition, the scavenger hunt. She convinces Luke, a senior, to help her do the scavenger hunt under the table, without her father (the principal) ever knowing about it.

The thing that I loved about this book was the constant humor. Blair volunteers at this nursing home for two More...

Blythe lives a life of perfection. She wears her perfect designer clothing, to perfect Meriton High, with her perfect friends, and her perfect plan to finish high school, go to college, and get her own happily ever after. Life is perfect until her father desides he wants to try to become the superintendant of the district he is the principal for. Now Blythe must switch to Ash Grove High, where the year before an unflattering photo of her went viral, humiliating her to her core. After a rocky sta More...

3 to 3.5 stars. I can't really decide. Slightly disappointing for me, since I loved "A Match Made in High School".
This book started off OK, but went slightly downhill at the second half. A few logical problems surfaced and at the end, I felt that the plot was a slight mess. The romance was slightly cheesy too. Walker's take on romance isn't the best I've read, I have to admit, but what I love about her books are her dialogues. Seriously how does she come up with such lines? She puts great orato More...