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Romance YA Wednesdays: Snark and Circumstance series by Stephanie Wardrop Book
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This week features the
Snark and Circumstance
series by Stephanie Wardrop!
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One superior smirk from Michael Endicott
convinces sixteen-year-old Georgia Barrett that the Devil wears Polo. His
family may have founded the postcard-perfect New England town they live in, but
Georgia’s not impressed. Even if he is smart, good looking, and can return
Georgia’s barbs as deftly as he returns serves on his family’s tennis courts.
After all, if Michael actually thinks she refuses to participate in lab
dissections just to mess with his grade, he’s a little too sure that he’s the
center of the universe. Could there be more to Michael Endicott than smirks and
sarcasm? If Georgia can cut the snark long enough, she just might find
out.
Snark and Circumstance is the first
title in the Snark and Circumstance series of young adult romance novellas from
Stephanie Wardrop.
Review for Snark and Circumstance:
I received an e-ARC copy to review, but in no way does that impact my opinion.
Snark and Circumstance is literally dripping in sarcasm which I LOVE. I am a very sarcastic person. I can't stand up in front of a crowd of people and start cracking jokes. I have a real dry sense of humor, so I was able to easily relate to the main character Georgia.
The book was a lot shorter than I expected, so I flew through it within an hour maybe an hour and a half. The style of writing is simple. As far as how much the novel correlated with Jane Austen's version...I can't give you an honest opinion. I have not read her version, so I wouldn't know the differences nor the similarities. All I know was that there wasn't a page that I didn't laugh out loud...literally.
Snark and Circumstance was a pleasant surprise and a fresh breath of air. We all get caught up in these stand alones and series that have so much depth and detail that we almost forget to enjoy ourselves. Ask anyone who works in the writing department for comedy and they will most likely say that writing comedy is hard. I believe that Stephanie was able to write this novel without making it seem like she forced the sarcasm. I can't wait to read the rest of the series!
Where do you draw the line with books that try to be funny or sarcastic? (Let me know in the comments!)
Sixteen-year-old Georgia Barrett is no
expert on guys, but her bio-class partner is harder to dissect than anything in
their lab tray. He’s smart, almost as sarcastic as she is, and cute in that
preppie way. Things are great . . . until he decides her vegan activism is
ridiculous and suddenly can’t refuse a date with her fast enough. So why does
he show up at her door, interested in learning how to make tofu ricotta? And
why does he seem so upset that a senior hottie has taken an interest in her? Could
he be interested in Georgia after all?
Georgia can’t figure out why the burden
of a Y chromosome seems to make guys so hard to understand. First, there’s the
handsome but slippery Jeremy Wrentham. After Georgia shared some pretty
devastating kisses with him, she found her way home and he found her
sister!
And then there’s Michael Endicott, who
never fails to let her know that her family’s quirkiness lies too far outside
the pale for this preppie townie. But if he really feels that way, why is he in
Georgia’s kitchen, asking her out? And why don’t boys come with instruction
manuals?
Georgia Barrett is beginning to realize that her arch-preppie
lab partner, Michael Endicott, is not at all the snob-hole she once thought.
Too bad Georgia doesn’t see him for who he really is until he starts dating a
poised and polished senior.
Georgia knows she should settle for his
friendship, especially since telling him how she really feels would mean
risking losing him altogether. But her heart tells her a chance at love might
just be worth dropping her trusty shield of snark. And Georgia’s determined to
find out.
Happily-ever-after isn’t as happy or
forever as Jane Austen makes it look. Just something Georgia Barrett learns
when her sharp tongue costs her the only guy she’s ever really cared about:
Michael Endicott.
Determined to move on, Georgia lands the
lead role in the school’s fall musical. But to survive on stage, she’ll need to
learn to express herself without her protective shield of snark. She soon
discovers being honest with others means being honest with herself, and the
truth is she’s still in love with Michael.
But from the looks of Michael’s new
girlfriend, Georgia isn’t the only one who tried to move on. Apparently, some
people are just better at it than others. And when Michael and his girlfriend
join the cast of the fall musical, Georgia finds out that snark and stage
fright are the least of her worries…
Stephanie Wardrop grew up in Reading,
Pennsylvania where she started writing stories when she ran out of books to
read. She’s always wanted to be a writer, except during the brief period of her
childhood in which piracy seemed like the most enticing career option—and if
she had known then that there actually were “girl” pirates way back when,
things might have turned out very differently. She currently teaches writing
and literature at Western New England University and lives in a town not unlike
the setting of Snark and Circumstance with her husband, two kids, and five
cats. With a book out—finally—she might be hitting the high seas any day
now.
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