Nocturnal Book Reviews

Don't get yourself fooled by a really bad cover, folks, this book is a little gem!

An absolute delight, cheeky and bittersweet, ironic and smart, PSEA is a story within story.

Eleanor is a normal girl who quietly stumbles through her high school highs and lows. She is one of the invisible ones, whose name hardly anyone remembers and who has a secret crash on a popular jock.

Everything changes when she decides to write a high-school romance as her English literature project.

Between hilarious zombie invasion caused by a supervillain, where her main characters - Sarah, Marky and Brandon struggle to survive and save their town, and Eleanor's blog entries about her real problems encompassing bullying at school, family and bitching about the unfairness of life in general...

...this book is ingenious and unexpectedly deep.

Eleanor's online conversations with her best friend Marky and her attempts at writing, slowly make a change within her, and by the end of the book she takes control of her life and her surroundings, just as clever Marky realises how to best his bullies.

The dialogues in this book are to die for, hilarious in a very nerdy way...

(blog entry about Eleanor's dad who is an FBI agent)

Special Agent Jack Armstrong Fun Fact
Dad’s car has a vanity license plate. Yes, the Cheapest
Man in America put out his hard-earned money for a special
plate. But you’d never know by looking at it. It took him
three weeks of research to find the most inconspicuous three letter and three-number combination possible. Then he ordered that one. The man bought a vanity plate with the sole purpose of NOT drawing attention to himself. I guess he was afraid that if left to chance, he might end up with AGT 007 or DVL 666 or something.
As if people haven’t already snatched those up.
4 COMMENTS
Marky said: What about JLO 247?
Elmer said: Jello 24-7?
Marky said: Damn right it is.
Elmer said: Huh?

Please, give this book a go. It might surprise you.