The Taming of the Drew

by Jan Gurley

Are you looking for a wild, gender-bending romp of a good time? Taming of the Drew, a full-length novel, is a hilarious update of the Shakespearean classic. Drew is a hotly-recruited high school football jock, nationally known for his prep prowess. But his bad behavior is moving him fast along the path to self-destruction. Enter Kate, a band-geek fellow student who’s clueless about Drew, but is willing to do anything to save the school’s last six redwoods. Including making a hopeless deal to get football-star Drew to behave. Taming of the Drew is for any person who’s ever tried to manage someone they had no hope of controlling!

So does Kate “tame” Drew? Will Drew make it to graduation? And will Kate’s precious trees fall?

Taming of the Drew breaks new ground in publishing. It is the first novel to have the entire prequel of Drew’s downfall told in “real time” on Twitter (#twitterfiction), beginning November 28, 2012, through the twitters feeds of Kate (@sixredwoods), Celia the snark-queen (@tamingdrew), and Dean Padua (@legacylemurs). Legacy High’s website www.legacylemurs.com (Go Lemurs!) gives readers a fun “mockumentary” look at Legacy High’s foibles, football scores, and even their embarrassingly plagiarized Student Code of Conduct. There’s even a working attendance hotline. Blurring the lines between reality and fiction even more, fans can buy Lemur Gear to show school pride, and even donate to Legacy Lemurs' real charity of choice.

Taming of the Drew is also the first mainstream PG-13 YA book to include such subplots as sexting, twitter, black-market campus sales of contraband trans-fats/sodas, high-pressure teen sports recruiting and the poignant struggles of transgender high school students. Uniquely modern, fast-paced and unpredictable - Taming of the Drew is a rollicking good time. AND it includes a full copy of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew' as a bonus!

Genres: Romance

600 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 27, 2012

Reviews

[Owen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great fun read - the book includes a full copy of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew' as well and it is even more fun to compare the two after you've read it.

This is a great book for young adults through adults and has a lot of humor as well as some underlying truth. Highly recommended

Merged review:

GREAT read for young to old adult audience - fantastic up-to-date version of Taming of the Shrew with wit and great contemporary touches

[Reka Beezy]

This author went too weird and unbelievable with this one.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmmm I don't even know what to say about this book the opening line was very starnge and the way the decribe the school is VERY weird and this entire story is about trees lol doesn't that just make you want to read it.
Drew is a student in the University pod (popular, I guess) and Kate is from the Academy pod (art school pod). Drew is a trouble maker and Kate is trying to raise money to save trees. There paths cross when someone pays Kate $400 to get a picture of Drew Naked from top up. She gets caught his mom says she'll pay her $8000 if Kate can reform her son, they hate eachother, they love eachother, he finds out about moms deal gets mad storms off, and then he swoops in and saves day YAY! BUT at what cost? ? ?
Now from this review you get the just but there are so many interesting Secondary characters that are really interesting and keep you guessing such as Alex and Robin in the end I am still wondering because they never really tell you in the end what their deal is.

[Tolk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delight

I highly enjoyed this little homage to the Bard, with all its twists and turns, budding love, friendship, insecurities and scheming adults.
Loved the dynamics and the little references both to The Taming of the Shrew (included at the end of the book!) and to other works of Shakespeare.

[Joe C · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the book and the plot. I really liked that the Shakespeare play "Taming of the Shrew" was included in my Kindle version.