A review by tangleroot_eli
Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits Volume 1, by Jen Van Meter
5.0
The plots in this book are so ridiculous that my disbelief was suspended beyond its breaking point within the first ten pages. But it absolutely didn't matter, because within the first five pages I'd already come to love this delightful rabble of characters. I want to wrap Zero in a blanket and take her home with me. I want to be Twitch or Arsenal (depending on mood). And I'm just generally in love with this family of misfits and rebels, misunderstood, picketed, even reviled--and loving and protecting each other all the more fiercely because of it.
(PS Even if I hadn't adored the rest of the book, the "bonus track" detailing Nikki and Dirk's misadventures at the kids' school conferences alone would've made it worth the read.)
(PPS "No time to swoo!" is possibly the most perfect sentence ever written in the English language, and everyone who knows me should probably prepare to hear it in conversation with me from now on. I apologize for nothing.)
(PS Even if I hadn't adored the rest of the book, the "bonus track" detailing Nikki and Dirk's misadventures at the kids' school conferences alone would've made it worth the read.)
(PPS "No time to swoo!" is possibly the most perfect sentence ever written in the English language, and everyone who knows me should probably prepare to hear it in conversation with me from now on. I apologize for nothing.)