abenajanet's review against another edition
4.0
mad hilarious as hell. loved this. no wonder i like family guy so much..
belles_bookshelves's review against another edition
3.0
A very funny book, although the reason why I gave it less stars was for this very reason. Don't get me wrong I like funny books, it's just that the humor was very crude at times. Not that I shoudn't have expected it. I mean the author is a writer on the show South Park, so yeah. I really liked that even though the main character was a "nerd" she wasn't some mousey shy girl with low self-esteem. The story line was good, although sometimes it was a little predictable but that doesn't usually bother me. If you don't mind some crude humor than this is a hilarious though, somewhat predictable book.
jasmyn9's review against another edition
4.0
Maya is your typical high school nerd. She toes the line, does her homework, and helps out at her family's restaurant after school. Then the unthinkable happens. She makes a majorly bad judgement call and needs to come up with some major cash fast or her family could lose everything. She teams up with an unlikely partner, Camden, the cute (but stupid) popular boy of the school. Together they hatch a scheme that is supposed to help Maya solve her problem...but things never turn out the way you expect them to.
Maya is a great main character. She has her flaws but does her best to hide or make up for them. She grows up a lot in the story and is forced to realize that she can't solve everything herself. Camden is an alright main guy for the story. He is a very sterotypcial popular guy. He's rich, gets everything he wants, and like to throw money at problems.
I think the book needed one of two things. A few less pages - there were times it seemed as if I was reading the same chapter over again - or more twists and turns. More twists and turns would have given the author a chance to develop some of the secondary characters a bit more. Because I didn't feel as if I knew any of them very well the ending seemed to come out of nowhere. Overall, well worth the read though.
4/5
Maya is a great main character. She has her flaws but does her best to hide or make up for them. She grows up a lot in the story and is forced to realize that she can't solve everything herself. Camden is an alright main guy for the story. He is a very sterotypcial popular guy. He's rich, gets everything he wants, and like to throw money at problems.
I think the book needed one of two things. A few less pages - there were times it seemed as if I was reading the same chapter over again - or more twists and turns. More twists and turns would have given the author a chance to develop some of the secondary characters a bit more. Because I didn't feel as if I knew any of them very well the ending seemed to come out of nowhere. Overall, well worth the read though.
4/5
abigailbat's review against another edition
4.0
Over-achieving, parent-pleasing, Stanford-bound Maya has a small problem. Due to a teeny tiny mistake she made at her parents' restaurant while they were out of town, she's landed them with a $10,000 fine from the board of health. Whoops.
What's a girl to do? Turn to Camden King, the rich playboy she's supposedly tutoring who offered her $100 to do his algebra homework. Together Camden and Maya build a clandestine business of doing people's homework. But soon things begin to spiral out of control. Can Maya keep it up until the fine is paid off? Or will she be found out and subsequently expelled and sent to live in Thailand?
I really enjoyed this book. Its implausibility is part of its fun. Unlike your more typical bookworm-ish brainiacs, Maya's really sassy and won't take crap from anyone, especially frat-boy-in-training Camden. This is the perfect book to take a study break with.
What's a girl to do? Turn to Camden King, the rich playboy she's supposedly tutoring who offered her $100 to do his algebra homework. Together Camden and Maya build a clandestine business of doing people's homework. But soon things begin to spiral out of control. Can Maya keep it up until the fine is paid off? Or will she be found out and subsequently expelled and sent to live in Thailand?
I really enjoyed this book. Its implausibility is part of its fun. Unlike your more typical bookworm-ish brainiacs, Maya's really sassy and won't take crap from anyone, especially frat-boy-in-training Camden. This is the perfect book to take a study break with.
nogenreleftbehind's review against another edition
4.0
Maya is your typical high school nerd. She toes the line, does her homework, and helps out at her family's restaurant after school. Then the unthinkable happens. She makes a majorly bad judgement call and needs to come up with some major cash fast or her family could lose everything. She teams up with an unlikely partner, Camden, the cute (but stupid) popular boy of the school. Together they hatch a scheme that is supposed to help Maya solve her problem...but things never turn out the way you expect them to.
Maya is a great main character. She has her flaws but does her best to hide or make up for them. She grows up a lot in the story and is forced to realize that she can't solve everything herself. Camden is an alright main guy for the story. He is a very sterotypcial popular guy. He's rich, gets everything he wants, and like to throw money at problems.
I think the book needed one of two things. A few less pages - there were times it seemed as if I was reading the same chapter over again - or more twists and turns. More twists and turns would have given the author a chance to develop some of the secondary characters a bit more. Because I didn't feel as if I knew any of them very well the ending seemed to come out of nowhere. Overall, well worth the read though.
4/5
Maya is a great main character. She has her flaws but does her best to hide or make up for them. She grows up a lot in the story and is forced to realize that she can't solve everything herself. Camden is an alright main guy for the story. He is a very sterotypcial popular guy. He's rich, gets everything he wants, and like to throw money at problems.
I think the book needed one of two things. A few less pages - there were times it seemed as if I was reading the same chapter over again - or more twists and turns. More twists and turns would have given the author a chance to develop some of the secondary characters a bit more. Because I didn't feel as if I knew any of them very well the ending seemed to come out of nowhere. Overall, well worth the read though.
4/5
dianafdez's review against another edition
4.0
Taken from my blog.
I truly enjoyed reading this book!
The book is about Maya who is an excellent student and never really gets in trouble. She never had reason to do something that wasn't right. That is, until her parents decide to put her in charge of their restaurant while her parents are out of time. During that time, many things happen that make Maya desperate to earn some money.
I could really relate Maya. Even though she was a student who got straight As, she didn't let herself be dominated by those who weren't exactly the best of students. I loved the comments that she made and the way she reacted to situations.
Camden was the guy that thinks that he owns the school and who everyone knows. He was the one who helped Maya get the money she needed and gave her the idea of how to earn it faster. I also liked the things that he said to Maya when she said things.
I loved the way that Cheva portrayed those students who got good grades. She didn't make them sound like some nerds who didn't have friends or that didn't really go out much. I can relate to all this since many people may consider me a nerd. Those who know me well know that I may get good grades but that I'm not exactly an angel.
I would recommend this book to anyone if they asked me. I think it's a great book to read if you want something light to read and to get a laugh!
I truly enjoyed reading this book!
The book is about Maya who is an excellent student and never really gets in trouble. She never had reason to do something that wasn't right. That is, until her parents decide to put her in charge of their restaurant while her parents are out of time. During that time, many things happen that make Maya desperate to earn some money.
I could really relate Maya. Even though she was a student who got straight As, she didn't let herself be dominated by those who weren't exactly the best of students. I loved the comments that she made and the way she reacted to situations.
Camden was the guy that thinks that he owns the school and who everyone knows. He was the one who helped Maya get the money she needed and gave her the idea of how to earn it faster. I also liked the things that he said to Maya when she said things.
I loved the way that Cheva portrayed those students who got good grades. She didn't make them sound like some nerds who didn't have friends or that didn't really go out much. I can relate to all this since many people may consider me a nerd. Those who know me well know that I may get good grades but that I'm not exactly an angel.
I would recommend this book to anyone if they asked me. I think it's a great book to read if you want something light to read and to get a laugh!
ifthebook's review against another edition
3.0
An enjoyable book, just not one that I'm going to read again in the near future. It's a pretty standard plot - smart girl falls for bad boy - but the trappings around the plot were pretty interesting. I like that the stakes were very high. The actual smart girl/bad boy relationship seemed a little odd to me, but overall I didn't have many complaints about this one.
booksforlosers's review against another edition
4.0
I bought this book SO long ago. I picked it up after like... maybe two and a half years of it sitting on my shelf? When I opened it I automatically related to the main character, who works in a hectic restaurant.
I found the book super cute and easy to read. I didn't hate the characters, and it wasn't so fluffy that it was cheesy, although I found a few things a bit far fetched, like how they charged 100-300 dollars PER homework assignment, like high school kids have that type of money to fling around, even if their parents are loaded.
But I enjoyed the perspective of the MC and the minor plot twist at the end (if you can call it that ig idk).
And even though the cover is totally outdated, the spine is perfectly fine.
I found the book super cute and easy to read. I didn't hate the characters, and it wasn't so fluffy that it was cheesy, although I found a few things a bit far fetched, like how they charged 100-300 dollars PER homework assignment, like high school kids have that type of money to fling around, even if their parents are loaded.
But I enjoyed the perspective of the MC and the minor plot twist at the end (if you can call it that ig idk).
And even though the cover is totally outdated, the spine is perfectly fine.
finesilkflower's review against another edition
4.0
Liked:
* Smart writing, with realistic and funny dialogue for high school nerds: sometimes clever, sometimes random, judiciously peppered with profanity.
* Plot twists and turns, and well-done uncertainty about what was going to happen.
* A surprisingly smart business model. For some reason I really dig YA books about running a business (see: Baby-sitters Club), but a frequent failing is that they overlook ways to make their business run smoother, or fail to go into detail about how it runs. The cheating ring gets complex enough to be satisfying, while running smartly enough to reflect well on the intelligence of its creators. It even features some good ideas I didn't come up with first, such as writing "I have syphilis" in highlighter pen on the completed homework so that the purchasers are forced to recopy it in their own handwriting before handing it in.
* A minimum of tired moral angsting about whether cheating is wrong, until the very end (which felt tacked on anyway, so you can kind of ignore it).
The only problems I had were at the very end. Several rather unbelievable events comprised a happy ending whose over the top goodness belied the reasonable realism of the rest of the book. I would have respected the book more if
Despite a few missed tricks and a bit too fairyland-romance of an ending, the book was a highly enjoyable, well-written and well-put-together high school dating/business/cunning scheme story.
* Smart writing, with realistic and funny dialogue for high school nerds: sometimes clever, sometimes random, judiciously peppered with profanity.
* Plot twists and turns, and well-done uncertainty about what was going to happen.
* A surprisingly smart business model. For some reason I really dig YA books about running a business (see: Baby-sitters Club), but a frequent failing is that they overlook ways to make their business run smoother, or fail to go into detail about how it runs. The cheating ring gets complex enough to be satisfying, while running smartly enough to reflect well on the intelligence of its creators. It even features some good ideas I didn't come up with first, such as writing "I have syphilis" in highlighter pen on the completed homework so that the purchasers are forced to recopy it in their own handwriting before handing it in.
* A minimum of tired moral angsting about whether cheating is wrong, until the very end (which felt tacked on anyway, so you can kind of ignore it).
The only problems I had were at the very end. Several rather unbelievable events comprised a happy ending whose over the top goodness belied the reasonable realism of the rest of the book. I would have respected the book more if
Spoiler
(a) the skeevy guy didn't turn out to be secretly scrupulous, or at least didn't turn out to be secretly scrupulous in EVERY WAY, or if (b) the main character didn't have a sudden uncharacteristic crisis of conscience requiring all of her friends to turn into supermen to get her out of the hole she dug. There were also missed opportunities to (a) redeem the spurned blackmailer and not totally fall into the "ugly people are bad, pretty people are good" dichotomy; and (b) show the underachieving business partner getting better at school through cheating, when business got so good that he actually had to take on some of the work.Despite a few missed tricks and a bit too fairyland-romance of an ending, the book was a highly enjoyable, well-written and well-put-together high school dating/business/cunning scheme story.
melrosereads's review against another edition
3.0
This is the very first book I downloaded and I even forgot where I found the recommendation of this book and it wasn't great but it wasn't bad either. I think because it's my first book after a long period of hiatus that I still remember scenes from the book.