“Declan loves Scandinavian death metal, violent video games, internet porn and Neilly Foster. Neilly Foster is beautiful, popular, invited to all the best parties (where Dec never gets invited). One awful day Neilly gets dumped by her boyfriend, loses her best friend, and when she ditches the rest of the school day and goes home she finds her mom, cooking when she should be working, clad only in a towel, with an equally towel clad strange man. Turns out the man is Dec's dad and they're getting married. Soon.
Soon Neilly and Dec find themselves bonding over their shared horror of their parents impending marriage and other high school traumas and they begin to learn the true meaning of family.
I loved this book, the chapters are told alternately by both Declan and Neilly and I found both voices to be very true. There's hilarity--Dec likes having Neilly as a soon-to-be stepsister while all the while still fantasizing about her. Neilly is honest with Dec and tries to help him finally have a date with a real girl. There's tragedy--Dec is still not over losing his mother to a drunk driver when he was young. Neilly's dad is marrying another man. Really, my review can't do this book justice. But I loved the message of the book--family isn't just what your born with, family can be found with the most unlikely of people.”
Colleen S wrote this review Sunday, February 12, 2012.
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