Author: Stephanie Tromly
Publication Date: August 6th 2015
Publisher: Hot Key Books
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
Sherlock meets The Breakfast Club in this story of a wisecracking girl who meets a weird but brilliant boy and their roller-coaster of a semester that's one part awkward, three parts thrilling, and five parts awesome
After her parents get divorced, high school junior Zoe Webster moves with her mother from Brooklyn to upstate New York, determined to get back to the city and transfer to the elite private school her father insists on. But then she meets Philip Digby--the odd and brilliant and somehow attractive?--Digby, and soon finds herself in a series of hilarious and dangerous situations all centered on his search for the kidnapper of a local teenage girl who may know something about the tragic disappearance of his kid sister eight years ago. Before she knows it, Zoe has vandalized an office complex with fake snow, pretended to buy drugs alongside a handsome football star dressed like the Hulk, had a serious throw down with a possible religious cult, challenged her controlling father, and, oh yeah, saved her new hometown.For fans of John Green and David Levithan, this is a crime novel where catching the crook isn't the only hook, a romance where the leading man is decidedly unromantic, a friendship story where they aren't even sure they like each other, and a debut you won't soon forget.
I don’t know how to feel about Trouble is a Friend of Mine,
and I don’t know what Trouble is a Friend of Mine is supposed to be, mainly
because I don’t think the book knows what it’s supposed to be. A mystery? A
coming of age with quirky characters and a mystery? A coming of age with quirky
characters who investigate a missing person’s case with a side of what the
actual fuck? Don’t get me wrong, it was
weird but fun and definitely quirky, but at the same time as being fun and
weird and quirky, it annoyed the hell out of me because WHAT IS IT ABOUT
REALLY? Because besides the mystery element, there are some weird and random
scenes and some truly awful characters with nothing behind them and I had no
idea where it was supposed to be going, and not in a what-the-hell-is-going-on
in an endearing way and more a what-the-hell-is-going-on-side-you-make-no-sense-side-eye
way.
