Not Now, Not Ever by Lily Anderson
Genre: YA Fiction
Blurb (on back of book):
The sequel to The Only Thing Worse than Me Is You, inspired by The Importance of Being Earnest.
Elliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn't going to do this summer.
1. She isn't going to stay home in Sacramento, where she'd have to sit through her stepmother's sixth community theater production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
2. She isn't going to mock trial camp at UCLA.
3. And she certainly isn't going to the Air Force summer program on her mother's base in Colorado Springs. As cool as it would be to live-action-role-play Ender's Game, Ellie's seen three generations of her family go through USAF boot camp up close, and she knows that it's much less Luke/Yoda/"feel the force," and much more one hundred push-ups on three days of no sleep. And that just isn't appealing, no matter how many Xenomorphs from Alien she'd be able to defeat afterwards.
What she is going to do is pack up her attitude, her favorite Octavia Butler novels, and her Jordans, and go to summer camp. Specifically, a cutthroat academic-decathlon-like competition for a full scholarship to Rayevich College, the only college with a Science Fiction Literature program. And she's going to start over as Ever Lawrence, on her own terms, without the shadow of all her family’s expectations. Because why do what’s expected of you when you can fight other genius nerds to the death for a shot at the dream you’re sure your family will consider a complete waste of time?
This summer's going to be great.
MY OPINION: *****
This is going to be a short review because I'm supposed to be doing other stuff and instead am procrastinating :)
This is the companion novel to one of my absolute favorite books,
The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You that I recently read.
I really loved this book as a whole. It wasn't quite as amazing as the first book but it wasn't faulty in the slightest.
The characters were cute and smart. I like characters who possess a brain and the ability to actually think because that is so rare in books these days. Geeks are not a huge part of the modern literary world.
Ever, or Elliott, or whatever you want to call her, was a girl who wanted to restart her life and get away from her parents' dreams for her and instead do what she wants to do. She decides to run away to a camp offering a scholarship to a school that I could not remember or pronounce that has a sci-fi segment that she really enjoys. She enters the genius camp and there we see her surrounded by smart people, some annoying, some amazing, some cute or funny. I liked the cameos of the characters from the other book (especially Ben and Trixie!).
Brandon, who is another cameo from the first book, was our other major character. He was a shady, introverted, not-so-boisterous guy who ends up becoming the love interest of the book. I thought it was interesting how he was given more of a backstory and we learn things about him that we didn't know just from reading the first book. He annoyed me back then but reading this book, he soon became one of my favorites.
Leigh was a smart girl who ended up deducing the entire mystery portion of this book. I thought that she added the humor and overall lightness to this book that I really needed. She also was dramatic and helpful and always ready to lend a helpful hand.
I really loved this book and I would be interested to read more about these characters in the future!
I would recommend this book to the Awesome Nerds of the world! Also, just to anyone who's looking for a good book :)
Main Character: Ever
Sidekick(s): Brandon, Leigh, etc
Villain(s): Deceit, lies, etc
Fiction Elements: All of this book was entirely fictional.
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