Review: Boys and Metaphors and Similes, Oh my!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2012
This book is so busy comparing EVERYTHING to something else it's completely distracting. And obviously one metaphor/simile was not enough in some cases - oh no, we needed three or four.The characters are not well-developed, except for maybe the main character, Robin. The relationships between Drake and Robin, and Elliot and Robin, are superficial. I did like that Robin admitted to herself that she did not really know Drake and had constructed an ideal of Drake which did not exist, although it is portrayed almost as a passing thought.Drake is the lifeguard that saves Robin from drowning one summer at the beach where her family vacations every year. For the next couple of summers she has random encounters with him. Drake is older than Robin and has a girlfriend, so Robin keeps her crush a secret. Her senior year she goes on a college tour where she conveniently collides with Elliot, who is, unbeknownst to Robin, Drake's younger brother. The following summer she sees Elliot again at the beach where she discovers that he is Drake's brother. It is completely unbelievable that not only did Robin encounter Elliot at a college with a large populous, but that Elliot is vacationing with Drake for the first time a few months later. It would have been much better if the author left out the college tour encounter and had Robin and Elliot discover that summer they would be attending the same college.Collectively, the excessive figures of speech and the underdeveloped relationships/characters made this story annoying.