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Rowan Roth has been in a neck-and-neck competition in academics and extracurriculars with Neil McNair (whom she’s labeled in her phone contacts as McNightmare) since the beginning of their freshman year. Now the day she’s waited for has finally arrived: the last day of school, where her victory as valedictorian will be announced and McNair will be relegated to salutatorian. So she hopes. It was bad enough the votes were split perfectly evenly for student body president and they had to serve as “co-presidents.” And while she loves romance novels, and is secretly writing one herself, he has taunted her about them and continues to insist on the superiority of classics written by white men, about white men (all of which she thinks might as well just be titled A White Man in Peril).
As soon as the valedictorian announcement is made, the seniors will all be free to participate in the school’s legendary annual event, Howl, an intense game that combines a scavenger hunt around the most well-known areas of their city of Seattle with the game of Mafia or Murder, where students eliminate each other by grabbing the armband of the person whose name they were given.
Somehow, Rowan and Neil end up spending most of the game together, which can potentially last a couple of days. Rowan has unresolved business, but she learns some surprising things about this formidable opponent, and she just may figure out that even as she was looking for the Perfect High School Boyfriend, he may have been right under her nose.
This was a fun book, a tale of two rivals who haven’t taken the time to get to know each other. The pacing is just right for a story that takes place merely over the course of a day, a night, and a morning; the game sounds incredible (what high school student wouldn’t want the chance to have this kind of fun, plus win the cash prize?); it’s a sweet romance, and it digs into the concerns many teens at this stage face. I’d have preferred it without the amount of profanity it has and a sexual relationship that occurs literally overnight.
Rated: High. There are almost 40 instances of strong profanity and a number of uses of moderate and mild language. Sexual content includes kissing, references to the main character having had sex twice before, a detailed sex scene, and talk about how the main character has read a lot of adult romance novels (with her having read details about sex in those since she was about age 10 and up). The main character takes the stance of how important it is for there not to be a double standard about sex, that females should own their sexuality.
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