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Wallflower

Cookie O'Gorman (Goodreads Author)

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Wallflower (wohl-flou-erh): Identifier for someone who is shy and/or awkward. For reference, see Viola Kent.

Seventeen-year-old Viola Kent likes being invisible. Well, not literally, but she's content being a loner, reading her books, and hanging out with the animals at the shelter. She just wants to keep her head down and get through her senior year at Durham High.

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Expected publication: March 25th 2021

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Feb 17, 2021 Kerri rated it really liked it

Shelves: arc, contemporary, definitely-read-again, favorites, romance, ya-fiction

This was a fun book, that was a super easy read. Finished it in a day. I was excited to be back in the Adorkable world, but I wouldn’t call this one a straight sequel. Becks, and especially Sally play very minor roles, and they’ve been aged up quite a bit. But Viola and Dare do a great job of continuing the fake boyfriend family legacy.

Viola is a loner who’s apparently been the target of bullying for most of high school. But despite that, she seems strong willed, and confident enough to confess This was a fun book, that was a super easy read. Finished it in a day. I was excited to be back in the Adorkable world, but I wouldn’t call this one a straight sequel. Becks, and especially Sally play very minor roles, and they’ve been aged up quite a bit. But Viola and Dare do a great job of continuing the fake boyfriend family legacy.

Viola is a loner who’s apparently been the target of bullying for most of high school. But despite that, she seems strong willed, and confident enough to confess her feelings right at the start of the book... to the wrong boy.

Dare is the hot guy with a heart of gold, who pretty much seems like the most perfect guy in existence. Come on, give the guy a flaw or two! Humanize him a little bit, it makes the story feel more real. I like the way he treats Viola, and I like that he’s a good friend, but very few boys (including the arrogant ones) have the confidence to hang out with someone who others deem a social outcast. It’s a nice idea though.

Honestly, a lot of Viola’s story made me feel kind of sad. She’s picked on for no good reason at all, not even some imagined slight; it makes me happy she has a super hot guy interested in her, because she deserves all the good things. And Dare treats her well.

I definitely had a few chuckles in the course of reading, and was curious to see how things played out. I will say that I wasn’t a fan of a lot of the interaction between Becks and Sally though. It didn’t feel like them, now that they’re all grown up, and their interactions were overly saccharine. It barely mentions Sally’s job, saying something about her being an adjunct professor, and says that Becks went pro immediately after college, but only played one year. Why? I feel like this could’ve been included in the story without taking away from Viola and Dare’s narrative. I also wish there was a bit more time spent on descriptions. I can’t even tell you what color Viola’s hair is. Brown maybe? It’s mentioned, I think, one time, and then very little attention is paid to her appearance or features again, short of dog T-shirts. It would’ve been nice to get a better bead on her. ...more

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Cookie O'Gorman writes YA & NA romance to give readers a taste of happily-ever-after. Small towns, quirky characters, and the awkward yet beautiful moments in life make up her books. Cookie also has a soft spot for nerds and ninjas. Her novels ADORKABLE, NINJA GIRL, THE UNBELIEVABLE, INCONCEIVABLE, UNFORESEEABLE TRUTH ABOUT ETHAN WILDER, and The Good Girl's Guide to Being Bad are out now! Her firs ...more