Review: He’s So Not Worth It by Kieran Scott
Title: He’s So Not Worth It
Series: He’s So/She’s So #2
Hardcover, 360 pages
Author: Kieran Scott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: June 7, 2011
Source: Publisher
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Book Summary:
Ally Ryan, come on down to the Jersey Shore and forget your troubles!
Have you recently been humiliated in front of your friends and family at your former best friend’s birthday party? Was your almost boyfriend partly responsible for that humiliation by withholding some vital information about where your estranged father is? Did you come home to find said estranged father sitting on your stoop?
If so, then it sounds like you could use a vacation! The Jersey Shore is the place to be. Your mother may be living with her boyfriend of only a few months, but at least the stunt Shannen pulled has put some of your friends back in your court. Even so, you’re still angry and what better way to get over Jake than to blow off some steam with local guy, Cooper? People will hardly recognize your new attitude, but the old one wasn’t getting you anywhere, so who cares!
Jake Graydon, an exciting opportunity is waiting for you in the service industry!
Are your grades so low your parents have grounded you for the summer? Did you the girl you really like unceremoniously leave you behind? Would you rather eat dirt than see your friends again? Then a job at the local coffee shop is just the ticket! Surprisingly, Ally’s father is the new manager so you get to be reminded of her nearly every day. Maybe it’s time to start flirting with your best friend’s ex or even taking school a bit more seriously. Especially when you finally see Ally and she’s hanging around with some loser and it’s couldn’t be more clear that she is over you.
Have a great summer!
Review:
Ok, well, I don’t know why I thought that Kieran Scott would end She’s So Not Worth It with something other than a cliffhanger, which is how she ended She’s So Dead To Us. The cliffhangers keep me just interested enough to want to read the next – I didn’t love the first in this series and yet I went on and read this one anyway.
The main character of these books generally just ticks me off. She used to be popular, then wasn’t, then thought she was going to be again but the popular kids made a fool of her, then she started to try to be friends with them AGAIN even though they were so so awful to her in the first book. If it had been me (even in high school, I wouldn’t have needed my adult wisdom for this) there is no way I would have wanted to be friends with any of them. Ever again. But I guess Ally is very influenced by wanting to be popular. Very very very influenced. In my opinion, she should have been trying to meet some of the other kids in her school for a change of pace, but regardless.
My non compatibility with the main character made this book a huge miss for me. I was hoping she would start making good decisions for herself, but she was right back at the whole popularity thing. So I guess if I went into it expecting that I may have been able to enjoy it more. All of that being said, I did finish the book (it was a little longer than it needed to be) and will likely read the next because of the cliff hanger Scott left us with.
Entertaining? Yes, sure. Different from the first? Nah, not really. This series is probably appealing to older middle schoolers wondering about popularity in the high school scene – and while it isn’t necessarily a reflection of how their own popularity missions will go (for their sake I hope it’s nothing like it, really), I’m sure all of the drama keeps them entertained as a reader.
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Ally really annoyed me in this second book in the series…I could handle her in the first book, but not this one. Whine, whine, whine. The cliffhanger, however, was awesome!
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This one was a huge miss for me too. I really loved the first and felt like this one was completely different. Ally was far more whiney in this one and the decisions all of the characters made were so far out of character from the last book that I was constantly in a state of WTF’ery. Very disappointing.
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I agree, the charcacters whined ALMOST THE WHOLE TIME. However I liked Jake better than Ally in both books because he’s pretty much innocient and seems to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and accidently saying the wrong thing to people. Although I was very dissapionted with the Chole thing (I have more to say about that just wait a sec.). While on the other hand Ally whined way to much, I understand how she’s doesn’t like Gray and blah blah blah but, I feel it could have been toned down a little bit. I. Hated. Cooper. He seemed cool at first but, then he just turned into a punk. I feel so bad for Hammond like he doesnt desreve to be shot down and ignored, I liked him the most. Poor Ham….:( About the thing with Chloe, I was so mad a Jake like I wanted to salp him over and over again BUT remember Will? The gut that was driving away from Chloes house and then Jake woke up? Well (spoiler alert for book 3) I says that Cloe gets pregnant and they think that jake is the father, well all I remember they did was kiss on her balcony, while that Will kid was in her room. So, although I was pretty dissapointed in this book I will for sure be reading the next one! (excuse my grammar and spelling)
I totally agree about Cooper – did not like him at all! And it’s so hard to stop reading these – I guess I’ll have to call them a guilty addiction. Because I don’t really like them much, but I do really want to know what is going on – and she leaves awful cliffhangers at the end of the books!