A hilarious novel about the ultimate high school hoax gone wrong - Heidi invents a boyfriend only to find that her fake Romeo is suddenly more popu...
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Aug 11, 2011
Three stars and a half stars is the best I can do, people. This was a classic Scholastic: they've kept their "hire talented writers to mass-produce twaddle" motto from back in the seventies (anyone recall the Mushroom Planet series?). The plotline is ridiculous. This girl feels so lonely because all her friends are getting boyfriends that she makes up a fake boyfriend and actually goes so far as to give him an online identity. As stupid as that is, she becomes even stupider when (seein
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Feb 03, 2012
Sarah
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I picked this up at the library because the premise sounded interesting and I liked the cover (hey, when you're flicking through a shelf of library books what else do you have to go on?) but it was so dreadful that I quickly gave up in disgust. Life is too short to finish stupid books. For a start the writing was incredibly annoying - the main character had the attention span of a squirrel and the vocabulary of a TV show for teenagers, written by adults. I couldn't even follow what she was sa
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Nov 09, 2011
Kirsti
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This story was written so poorly, I'm surprised I even finished it. OK, for starters the writing is terrible. It jumps around constantly, and I skimmed over the Mycroft fantasy moments because they were just plain stupid. She speaks in this horrible, self obsessed voice throughout the whole series, and uses words that make me cringe like 'Dad man' and 'Mothership' to refer to her parents. It just reeks of 'OMG! I am SO hip and YOUNG with my nutty words, LIKE ME< LIKE ME< LIKE ME! So basica
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Jun 11, 2011
Krista
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My Invisible Boyfriend definitely surprised me- in a good way! The writing was fresh, fun, and well done. The characters were creative and likable, as well. At first it was a little slow, but as the story progressed I got more and more into it. It was a very original, realistic read, that was a pleasant break from all the paranormal books I've been reading lately.
Heidi was a really likable main character, that had me laughing out loud at her witty way of speaking. And not just because More...
Heidi was a really likable main character, that had me laughing out loud at her witty way of speaking. And not just because More...
May 15, 2011
Barky
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Apr 13, 2011
Rachel
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Heidi wasn't dating anyone. Happy enough with being in love with Mycroft Christie, the dashing hero of her favourite TV series, and admiring Teddy, the handsome son of Betty, who owns the Little Leaf where Heidi works, from afar. But, when all her friends suddenly become happy couples, totally loved up and leaving her feeling totally left out, Heidi is forced to take drastic measures. Like having an boyfriend who's actually a biscuit. However, Gingerbread Ed is Perfect with a capital, cinnamon s
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Mar 03, 2011
Nielson
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Really didn't like it. A new student at an alternative high school, Heidi wants so badly to just fit in...and it seems the only way to do it is to create a fake boyfriend, fake internet profile and all. Soon enough, her "boyfriend" has become involved in all her friends' dramas, while she is left out in the cold. And to make matters worse, a REAL boy, without disclosing his identity, reveals his love for her through email. Who knew that having a fake boyfriend could cause so many real
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Jan 22, 2011
Kate
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Cute young-adult chick lit comedy
Fifteen-year-old Heidi's family moves around a lot, and that combined with the fact that she's an quirky, creative loner has caused her to have trouble making friends over the years. In fact, she's often been labeled as a geeky outsider, with terrible nicknames like Frog Girl. For most of her teen years, her only friend has been a make-believe one, Mycroft Christie, a "time-traveling gentleman detective" from an off-the-air TV series with whom More...
Fifteen-year-old Heidi's family moves around a lot, and that combined with the fact that she's an quirky, creative loner has caused her to have trouble making friends over the years. In fact, she's often been labeled as a geeky outsider, with terrible nicknames like Frog Girl. For most of her teen years, her only friend has been a make-believe one, Mycroft Christie, a "time-traveling gentleman detective" from an off-the-air TV series with whom More...
Jul 20, 2010
Christi
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Summary: In My Invisible Boyfriend by Susie Day, Heidi, aka Frog Girl, has gone to many boarding schools. Because of her parents, Dad Man and Mothership who like to move around a lot, she has always been in a “Never-ending Era of Pathetic Noobishness” where she eats lunch by herself and never makes any friends. Until now. At the Finch, the boarding school where all the kids who get kicked out of all the other boarding schools go, she has friends who like her. As the new school year begins, H
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Jun 24, 2010
Jennifer
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Susie Day gives us a delightful tale of a high school girl named Heidi. She is terrified of being friendless and going back to being frog girl, due to an unfortunate incident from science class, so she makes up a boyfriend to keep up with all of her friends. At the beginning of the year party, all of her friends end up hooking up with boys and she unintentionally turns down the flirtations of one of the hottest guys in school. Her friend automatically decides this means that she has a boyfrie
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Jun 17, 2010
Kristi
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Heidi has been dragged around the many private schools of England by her teacher parents for most of her life. Always the new girl AND daughter of two teacher types, she's never really fit in. But once her parents take positions at a "last ditch for the rich kids" private school, Heidi finally makes some friends and her parents inexplicably stop and stay there for a while.
Heidi loves Mycroft Christie (a very Doctor Whoish character) and watches the several seasons of his s More...
Heidi loves Mycroft Christie (a very Doctor Whoish character) and watches the several seasons of his s More...
Jun 07, 2010
Trisha
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I don't normally write a review for books that I don't like. But a copy of this was sent to me for review so I feel that I need to review it since that was the purpose of the review copy.
Okay, this book wasn't horrible. It just wasn't the best. I found myself skipping over a lot of the pages and reading the e-mails and just paragraphs here and there through out the book until I got to the end. The writers writing is very confusing from page one. For example, this is how the book starts:
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Okay, this book wasn't horrible. It just wasn't the best. I found myself skipping over a lot of the pages and reading the e-mails and just paragraphs here and there through out the book until I got to the end. The writers writing is very confusing from page one. For example, this is how the book starts:
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May 09, 2010
Naomi
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I thought this was an incredibly cute, fun read. Heidi is going through that difficult time of adolescence when all her friends start hooking up and she doesn't want to be left behind. Actually finding a boyfriend is confusing and complicated, and she's in love with a TV character anyway. So she isn't seen as the pathetic friend and left out entirely she creates Ed. He's handsome, sweet, and attending school far away.
I LOVED how she talks to her TV crush, a Dr. Who-styled character who rea More...
I LOVED how she talks to her TV crush, a Dr. Who-styled character who rea More...
Sep 20, 2010
Namratha
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Ya-Lit authors are getting sparkier and cheekier. Girl Meets Cake is a classic example of an author who got it just right. Be it an endearing heroine, a crazy ensemble cast or a free-flowing plot-line...the book has it all.
Heidi Ryder is a plaited teen geek/fangirl. Constantly shuffled around by her parents, she has finally found her stomping ground at the posh Goldfinch Private School. Sadly, she’s not exactly at the top of the food-chain since her mother is school PE instructor and More...
Heidi Ryder is a plaited teen geek/fangirl. Constantly shuffled around by her parents, she has finally found her stomping ground at the posh Goldfinch Private School. Sadly, she’s not exactly at the top of the food-chain since her mother is school PE instructor and More...
Oct 10, 2011
She Known As Jess
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It is beyond daunting when you walk through a place that is crowded by loved up couples, especially when your own couple resolves around you because you are the only one in said duo, yes, single. The dreaded word that really shouldn’t be dreaded but made that much harder when you see all these people who seem over the moon in happiness, not to mention the hand to hold, smile to bloom and hugs to consume, it can all be a bit much to stomach. Not to mention when your friendship group dynamics chan
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Mar 29, 2010
Karin
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Heidi attends a very posh private school, but only because her mother teaches P.E. and her father is the caretaker/handyman. New to the school, she doesn’t have that many friends and definitely isn’t in the popular crowd. Her only lifelines are her 3 friends, Fili, Ludo, and Dai. Together they are the Leftover Squad.
Heidi has gone crazy over the summer since all of her friends left to experience typical “rich” kids activities. As weird as it sounds, she can’t wait for school to s More...
Heidi has gone crazy over the summer since all of her friends left to experience typical “rich” kids activities. As weird as it sounds, she can’t wait for school to s More...
Aug 22, 2011
Nicole
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I knew I was going to be entertained by this book, just from the name and the summary I read on the inside cover. But what I didn't expect was how much I ended up enjoying this book! Mind you, it has all the stereotypical settings: high school, everyone getting hooked up and ruining the "best friend gang~!" feeling of the years before, and then our main female lead trying to fit in as best she can to try to save that group of friendship she had with her buddies. Then again, I guess tha
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Nov 10, 2011
Stephanie
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Fun, zany comedy with a fabulous geek-girl heroine. I loved Heidi so, so much, and I LOVED the time-traveling-detective TV show Susie Day invented for Heidi to be obsessed with. This is a perfect book for fans of Lili Wilkinson's PINK or the movie "Mean Girls"!
The only reason I'm personally giving it 4 stars rather than 5 has nothing to do with quality, only with my own wimpiness as a reader when it comes to the kind of comedy where you watch the heroine make bad, bad deci More...
The only reason I'm personally giving it 4 stars rather than 5 has nothing to do with quality, only with my own wimpiness as a reader when it comes to the kind of comedy where you watch the heroine make bad, bad deci More...
Oct 07, 2011
Rain
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Man, this book was a trip. I spent so long reading it (mostly because life enjoys beating me into a bloody pulp) that I feel I know these characters personally. That I lived with them in this boarding school. That I was about to go squealy fangirl over the yaoi... oh, wait... I did do that... OH WELL! What I'm saying is that I REALLY enjoyed this book. I didn't think that I would considering that this is just not a genre I like. Why in the world would I want to read about high school life/drama?
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Feb 10, 2011
Clover (Fluttering Butterflies)
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I was very excited when the offer came up to read Girl Meets Cake by Susie Day (titled My Invisible Boyfriend in the USA). It sounded fun, and funny and a little out there. And it is definitely all of those things!
Within the first few pages and I was giggling away at Heidi - her voice and the things she'd say, and the other characters in the story. Quirky might be the right word for Heidi, but I found her to be utterly charming. She's such a great character, with her mad obsession with More...
Within the first few pages and I was giggling away at Heidi - her voice and the things she'd say, and the other characters in the story. Quirky might be the right word for Heidi, but I found her to be utterly charming. She's such a great character, with her mad obsession with More...
Oct 10, 2010
Nafiza
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Admit it, you've been tempted sometimes. To do the same exact thing that Heidi does: invent a perfect fake boyfriend. When you are among friends who go through partners like they are handkerchiefs and you feel unwanted and undesirable because you don't have anyone doting on you. Or if everyone else in the group is paired up and you stick out like a sore single thumb. Heidi uses this fake perfect boy (complete with what is equivalent to a FB account) to fit in, smooth the edges which would otherw
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Feb 28, 2011
Kayla
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Despite reading this book twice, I could not possibly say it has even been short-listed for my selection of favourites.I read it twice simply because right then I had nothing else to read. I am a young teenager (yes, I know my profile says I am 19) and I think teen 'romance' books are growing exceedingly tedious and sheerly exhausting to read. Of course I blame this on Twilight. I find myself having to re-read gems like 'Ruby Red' over and over again, after many tiresome hours spent in a 'stocke
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Feb 21, 2011
Savannah (Books With Bite)
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How much trouble can a fake boyfriend cause? Apparently a lot. Heidi, caught in the moment makes a fake boyfriend. One that is sweet, broody, and a boy that every girl wants. Heidi also has a blackmailer who knows her secret.
I loved Heidi. Her willingness to go all the way with this plan is cool. At times I wondered if she can remember that this is all fake. She really seemed into the fake boyfriend she made.
I am surprised at her friends. It just goes to show who your friend More...
I loved Heidi. Her willingness to go all the way with this plan is cool. At times I wondered if she can remember that this is all fake. She really seemed into the fake boyfriend she made.
I am surprised at her friends. It just goes to show who your friend More...
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Nov 15, 2010
RachelAnne
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4.5 HA! So, apparently I'm NOT the only one. Thank goodness that social networking hadn't hit yet when I was in my teens, or who knows how far I might have gone...
Besides my OBVIOUS instant-rapport with Heidi, I love-love-lurved this book on many other levels, though. Mycroft Christie, Time Traveling Detective is not only a very witty spoof of Dr. Who with shades of Lord Peter and Sherlock Holmes, but his imagined dialogue is immensely amusing. Heidi's friends are a believable, largely More...
Besides my OBVIOUS instant-rapport with Heidi, I love-love-lurved this book on many other levels, though. Mycroft Christie, Time Traveling Detective is not only a very witty spoof of Dr. Who with shades of Lord Peter and Sherlock Holmes, but his imagined dialogue is immensely amusing. Heidi's friends are a believable, largely More...
Sep 06, 2010
Katie(babs)
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DNF. The writing it very hard to read and the way the story is set up is confusing. Had to give this one a pass because I couldn't get a handle on the way the main character thinks and speaks. Very strangely written.
Forty pages in, I put this book down because I could barely make sense of the writing and lingo. Susie Day is trying to go for cute and it fails in so many ways.
The way the author has set up the plot and dialogue is grating. Trying to understand what is going More...
Forty pages in, I put this book down because I could barely make sense of the writing and lingo. Susie Day is trying to go for cute and it fails in so many ways.
The way the author has set up the plot and dialogue is grating. Trying to understand what is going More...
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Aug 06, 2011
Hanna
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I feel like even though this book contains content that is for teens, it was written for tweens. The writing standard was just a juvenile level. I wouldn't recommend it to tweens because of light (and I mean really light, I just don't think kids should read about that stuff) references of alcohol and sex (but usually only in passing, although there is quite a lot of making out). But, I also wouldn't recommend it for teens because I feel like our reading level is above that. This book is just stu
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May 31, 2010
Amber
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(Actual rating was 4.5 stars)
Can I just start out by saying how much I enjoyed this book? I mean, really enjoyed it? My Invisible Boyfriend is one of those books that makes you smile over and over again. Lighthearted and witty, Day's writing was able to tickle my funny bone. At the same time, the story also deals with the many insecurities and problems faced by teen girls today.
Heidi is a hilarious character. Her ridiculous schemes will make you groan in horror and More...
Can I just start out by saying how much I enjoyed this book? I mean, really enjoyed it? My Invisible Boyfriend is one of those books that makes you smile over and over again. Lighthearted and witty, Day's writing was able to tickle my funny bone. At the same time, the story also deals with the many insecurities and problems faced by teen girls today.
Heidi is a hilarious character. Her ridiculous schemes will make you groan in horror and More...
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Jun 11, 2010
Christina (Reading Extensively)
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Heidi is a quirky character with a great sense of humor. She loves to watch DVD episodes of her favorite spy show and has imaginary conversations with the main character, Mycroft Christie. It is hard for Heidi to adapt to the changes in her friends. She feels left behind since her friends have all paired up with guys. Heidi's behavior may seem odd at times and she does give in to flights of fancy but I think it makes her character believable. I found myself identifying with her as someone who ha
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Jun 01, 2010
Megan
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Heidi feels left out when she returns to her private school in the fall and finds her friends have all hooked up, leaving her the only singleton. To appear as if she can relate to the group, she invents a boyfriend, conveniently away at a different boarding school so they can only communicate online. Things get complicated when her friends start to email and chat with her imaginary boyfriend, so Heidi has to juggle her responses as well as imaginary Ed's responses!
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Jun 14, 2011
Rabiah
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Originally Posted at: http://iliveforreading.blogspot.com/2011...
As Heidi feels left out when all her friends start falling in love– she's desperate to find someone too...and she's do whatever it takes: beg, borrow, or... imagine.
The cute idea of a story and the cover definitely peaked my interest, and I was squealing when I found out that my school's library had it. The publishing date is also pretty hilarious for this book (April Fool's Day!) and it's definitely what this book i More...
As Heidi feels left out when all her friends start falling in love– she's desperate to find someone too...and she's do whatever it takes: beg, borrow, or... imagine.
The cute idea of a story and the cover definitely peaked my interest, and I was squealing when I found out that my school's library had it. The publishing date is also pretty hilarious for this book (April Fool's Day!) and it's definitely what this book i More...
