YA book review: The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp YA contemporary Paperback/ebook, 294 pages Published July 9th 2013 by Ember (first published October 20th 2008) So, my girlfriend, Cassidy, is threatening to kick me to the curb again, my best friend suddenly wants to put the brakes on our lives of fabulous fun, my mom and big sister are plotting a future in which I turn into an atomic vampire, and my dad, well, my dad is a big fat question mark that I’m not sure I want the answer to. Some people would let a senior year like this get them down. Not me. I’m Sutter Keely, master of the party. But don’t mistake a midnight philosopher like me for nothing more than a shallow party boy. Just ask Aimee, the new girl in my life. She saw the depth in the Sutterman from that first moment when she found me passed out on the front lawn. Okay, so she’s a social disaster, but that’s where I come in. Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining future...