Charming as a Verb

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She was so cute and rough and tough in the beginning, but like a cookie in the microwave, she warmed up to him.

He's pretty smart, humorous, and caring, but isn't very considerate of his actions until the shit backfires on him and then he apologizes. To put it bluntly, like Corinne would, she's stunted in the social niceties department and could do with some "wine and dine" lessons.

I love books with depth and great character development so now your review has me even more excited. His operation is not on the up-and-up and one of his neighbours, who is also a student at FATE, Corinne, decides to use this information to her advantage. Today’s snarky young anti-hero instead looks like Norris, the black French Canadian boy in The Field Guide to the North American Teenager . It was genuinely a struggle for me to get through this book and it took me over a week to read it, when normally a contemporary like this would take me 2-3 days. But there’s a lot to unpack from this book other than that, of class privileges and being a child of an immigrant, of being a first generation Haitian-American and how it puts Henri and Corrine on different position and how it fell on him to realize “The American Dream”.

This is just yet another YA contemporary where I cringed every single 5 pages or so and that the main characters barely had more than one point to determinate their personality. From the award-winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager comes a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. In Philippe’s funny debut, 16-year-old black French-Canadian Norris Kaplan must navigate life and love in Austin, Tex. I don't really have many complaints because this story is written in a way where you know what's happening, but you also know that it could have been written better. Since the synopsis primarily highlights the blackmail, I expected that thread to weave throughout Charming as a Verb.The book also addresses inequality in the system and how wealthier teens have access to certain advantages whilst applying for colleges. The author has such an easy way of incorporating humour into his narration and dialogue and now that I’ve been following him on social media for some time, I can see that it’s his own sense of humour that’s made it onto the page.