This is a wild
ride! Scott and Davey hate each other. To Davey, Scott is nothing but an
unpopular nerd. To Scott, Davey was a stuck-up, mean girl cheerleader. Their
scheduled peer mediation is a few days away, but in the meantime, the animosity
just grows and grows.
And so does the
weirdness. It starts with a soft drink that changes from one to another and
back and a soon-to-be-dissected frog begging for its life. It only gets more
bizarre from there. Reality is collapsing and the multiverse is converging on
their high school. If they don’t figure out what the heck is going on, reality
is over.
The authors use
a dual narration between Scott and Davey; that really works for me. Seeing the
escalating situations from their two very different points of view only makes
this more fun. I have to admit to identifying more with Scott. His desire to
just get through high school without being noticed is one I felt pretty often
back in my own high school days. While Davey just wants all the craziness to
stop, Scott tries to figure out exactly what’s happening.
I laughed out
loud more than one reading this book. It is great fun. My only problem with the
book is the sheer amount of profanity in the book. It doesn’t really bother me
as a reader, but it keeps me from putting it in my classroom library. There is
a lot of violence, but it is almost cartoonish in its excess. If you don’t mind
a lot of salty language, and you do like a lot of laughs, I’d suggest you give
it a try.
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