King of the Screwups
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
King of the Screwups by K.L. Going
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
After getting in trouble yet again, high school senior Liam is kicked out of his home with his retired model mother and CEO father to live in a trailer park with his gay glam rocker uncle, Pete. Trying to win the acceptance of his constantly disapproving father, Liam attempts to stop screwing up and change into the kind of person his father will value. Of course, this doesn’t go smoothly, resulting in, you guessed it…more screwups!
This was a fun, light read with a sweetly positive message. Though the premise and the characters are exaggerated and therefore less than realistic, they are enjoyable and, in their hearts, easy to relate to. I was in a bit of a reading slump when I picked this up and this was the perfect book to pull me out of it-fluffy at first glance, but with an important, warm fuzzy self esteem message.
