the great american whatever by tim federle

Having said that, I did like the role that the romance played in the book and appreciated how it played out.Įven though I didn’t connect with the romance, I did really like Quinn as a main character. It was just a little bit average and I suppose that was exactly the point of it… so maybe this isn’t really a criticism but more of a pat on the back for Tim Federle? I just didn’t really feel anything from the romance and I think that was what made the book seem a bit boring and draggy for me in the middle. I wasn’t a huge fan of it but didn’t hate it either. This was probably in part due to the romance. There wasn’t really much happening and I just didn’t really connect with the book for quite a bit of the middle section. I thoroughly enjoyed the first 75 pages and the last 100 or so pages but the middle section felt like a bit of a drag. However, I have to say that I felt a little bit bored at times. The development of Quinn’s character throughout the novel was nicely paced and done quite seamlessly. As a coming of age story, it was enjoyable and contained lots of great character growth. When his best friend tries to pull him out of his funk, he finds romance and discovers things about himself and his sister that he never knew before. This novel is about Quinn, who’s been struggling for the last six month since the death of his sister and the abandonment by his father. And while I did enjoy it, I didn’t really connect with it as much as I thought I would. Grief, LGBTQIA+ elements and a coming of age story is exactly what I like in a contemporary novel. On paper, The Great American Whatever is exactly my kind of book. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy a hot one and falls hard. Of course, that was all before before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa and before Annabeth was killed in a car accident.Įnter Geoff, Quinn s best friend who insists it s time that Quinn came out at least from hibernation. Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry “used “to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth.

The great american whatever by tim federle