itsthebrojoe's review against another edition
4.0
Summary/First Reactions: The world the novel takes place in is technologically beautiful . I love all the little gadgets and devices that they use to make life easier. The novel opens up with a classroom full of everyday children. Some of them are playing games on there phones. Some of them are reading. Others are checking their stocks. Most of them are getting a dose of iHigh, the newest drug, into their system.You see, normal kid stuff.
Elsa Webb is that main character of our story, and she acts just like you would think a teenage girl in high school should act like. She's annoying. Despite being extreme school smarts, she can be amazingly stupid. And for most of the book she gets on my every loving nerves. I actually found my self being more on the side of Jimmy and May than Elsa.
What made me really mad about Elsa was the fact that she couldn't see through Jason, a guy she was crushing on. It was painfully obvious that he wasn't interested. Painfully. And it made it hard to take her serious when she acted like a 8 year old. She was also very controlling which made me not care about the outcome of her endeavors. And at some points, she was just being a bully. Like the way she kept referring to Jimmy as a Twerp despite the fact that he is nothing but nice to her.
Other than my gripes with the main character, the story is pretty cool. Taking place in a near future, Elsa Webb doesn't want to conform to the school she goes to. Because Northawken High is all about appearances. The rock stars sport abercrombie & fitch. The nerds are sponsored by Apple and Microsoft, etc. So to get away from all of that Elsa does the unthinkable, she starts her own club. The Perpetual Motion Club. But with little support from the teachers and students, the tasks is a lot harder than it looks. She has to fight the school board, other students, and even her own mother. However, that challenges don't stop there. And Elsa is about to learn more about herself than she ever wanted to.
The Good: Great story. Cool idea. Amazing Secondary Characters.
The Bad: The main character made me want to throw the book out a window sometimes.
Overall: Great story but annoying main character. 4/5
Elsa Webb is that main character of our story, and she acts just like you would think a teenage girl in high school should act like. She's annoying. Despite being extreme school smarts, she can be amazingly stupid. And for most of the book she gets on my every loving nerves. I actually found my self being more on the side of Jimmy and May than Elsa.
What made me really mad about Elsa was the fact that she couldn't see through Jason, a guy she was crushing on. It was painfully obvious that he wasn't interested. Painfully. And it made it hard to take her serious when she acted like a 8 year old. She was also very controlling which made me not care about the outcome of her endeavors. And at some points, she was just being a bully. Like the way she kept referring to Jimmy as a Twerp despite the fact that he is nothing but nice to her.
Other than my gripes with the main character, the story is pretty cool. Taking place in a near future, Elsa Webb doesn't want to conform to the school she goes to. Because Northawken High is all about appearances. The rock stars sport abercrombie & fitch. The nerds are sponsored by Apple and Microsoft, etc. So to get away from all of that Elsa does the unthinkable, she starts her own club. The Perpetual Motion Club. But with little support from the teachers and students, the tasks is a lot harder than it looks. She has to fight the school board, other students, and even her own mother. However, that challenges don't stop there. And Elsa is about to learn more about herself than she ever wanted to.
The Good: Great story. Cool idea. Amazing Secondary Characters.
The Bad: The main character made me want to throw the book out a window sometimes.
Overall: Great story but annoying main character. 4/5
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