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| Book #108 of 2010 |
| Title: Rich and Mad |
| Author: William Nicholson |
| Publisher: EgmontUSA |
| Pub Date: September 14, 2010 |
| Grade: B |
| Comments: Maddy decides it’s time to fall in love and sets her sights on Joe, a guy in her drama club who has a girlfriend. When she received a secret email from him, she has to decide whether she wants to go for a guy who’s already taken. Rich likes Grace, Maddy’s best friend, who is aloof and experienced and doesn’t know he exists. When Maddy and Rich discover their crushes aren’t quite what they are expecting, they feel really alone…until they realize that maybe there’s someone else out there for them.
This book has gotten very strong reviews from the journals that piqued my interest, but I didn’t find it nearly as strong as they did. Both Rich and Maddy don’t seem like real characters at times, and the language used in the book seemed to be an intentional style choice but often feels very forced and artificial. The book seems to be more about ideas than plot or even character. I enjoyed the dynamic of Rich’s family, but thought Maddy’s family drama with her dad and her sister was less interesting. I liked how the story played out between Maddy and Joe, and liked the friendship between Maddy and Cath, and how Grace’s character is used, but even though most of the plot was satisfying, the writing was too offputting for me. |
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