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A review by sherwoodreads
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
2.0
I suspect the target audience for this is actually the eighteen-year-old to thirty-year old readership who is young and strong, thinks they will live forever, so mercy is sentiment, grace is frivolous and it's all about the snark.
I think this would have made me laugh for about five pages if I'd read it as a teen, but I soon would have been bored out of my tree by the lack of story on kid level. The anti-hero's goals are adult goals. His commentary on the idiocy of governmental systems, etc, are just not going to make fun reading for the middle schooler, who already has to read Ben Franklin and Mark Twain (who are much funnier) in class.
I could be wrong--I'll be watching to see what kids think--but when I finished skimming this (and I skimmed faster and faster, as there were no hooks to slow me down) it was with a sense of relief.
I think this would have made me laugh for about five pages if I'd read it as a teen, but I soon would have been bored out of my tree by the lack of story on kid level. The anti-hero's goals are adult goals. His commentary on the idiocy of governmental systems, etc, are just not going to make fun reading for the middle schooler, who already has to read Ben Franklin and Mark Twain (who are much funnier) in class.
I could be wrong--I'll be watching to see what kids think--but when I finished skimming this (and I skimmed faster and faster, as there were no hooks to slow me down) it was with a sense of relief.