I am excited to announce that I am the first stop on the Wilder blog tour that Rockstar Book Tours has organized. Wilder is a debut novel by Andrew Simonet. It will be hitting shelves, tomorrow on November 13, 2018.
Title: WILDER
Author: Andrew Simonet
Pub. Date: November 13, 2018
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Pages: 320
SUMMARY: I met Melissa in the rubber room, a.k.a. in-school suspension. And that’s not her real name.
She had secrets, I had enemies.
“People are either useful or dangerous,” she said. “One or the other.”
“Which one am I?” I said.
“You’re both.”
Meili was right. (That’s her real name.)
You can solve a lot of problems if you don’t mind getting hurt.
“People are either useful or dangerous,” she said. “One or the other.”
“Which one am I?” I said.
“You’re both.”
Meili was right. (That’s her real name.)
You can solve a lot of problems if you don’t mind getting hurt.
Jason Wilder is in permanent in-school suspension for fighting. Meili Wen gets there by breaking a girl’s finger. Jason and Meili don’t just connect; they collide. Two people who would never cross paths—outsiders from radically different backgrounds—they form an exhiliarating, unpredictable bond. When circumstances push, they push back. There’s no plan. And there’s no stopping.
"I am so crap. How can you stand being with me? Don’t answer that or I will crash this thing with both of us on it, swear to god, are you ready?”
Yes. No. Didn’t matter.
Yes. No. Didn’t matter.
I reached both arms around Meili’s waist as we zoomed down the hill.
REVIEW: Jason's life is literal hell. He is the school outcast and is in permanent in school suspension. He has to spend his days in a no longer used classroom, which has been dubbed the Rubber Room. He can't talk to anyone, he can't take any "weapons" with him, He just has to sit there, shut up and do his work. His boring days change when the new "foreign" girl gets put in the rubber room for breaking a popular girls finger. They connect and form a bond when they shouldn't be associating at all.
As the story goes along, we find out that "Melissa" has a lot of deep dark secrets and she can not be found out by the cops or any one of importance. Jason just can't let her go and he forms a very quick and intense relationship with her. he has a lot of problems of his own. Being the town arsonist is a lot to handle, not to mention the many assault cases he has.
This story was not what I was expecting at all. I thought it would end up being about some troubled kid who finally gets things to go right after learning, but nope. I then expected some of "Melissa's" family to be behind all of her disastrous family drama. Maybe a kidnapping. I also did not expect all the sex scenes. WHAT!!!! But I should have expected it from two teenagers who are alone with no parents or guardians.
I give this a 4 out of 5 stars because the expectations I had were no where near what actually happened. I also felt like Jason had some sort of Norman Bates type personality... maybe.
Andrew Simonet
I am a
writer and choreographer in Philadelphia. I am interested in messy, complex
humans colliding with rigid systems. I am interested in how unequal everything
is, and the stories we tell ourselves about that. I am interested in the
stories men tell ourselves about everything. I am interested in what bodies
know that brains don't. I think pretty is the enemy of beautiful.
My debut
young adult novel, Wilder, will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in
November 2018. I am currently writing a sequel.
I was a
founding Co-Director of Philadelphia's Headlong Dance Theater from 1993-2013.
We made raucous performance works.
I am an
activist and organizer for artists having sustainable lives. I founded Artists
U (programs in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and South Carolina) and wrote Making
Your Life as an Artist.
Career
stuff: my creative work has been supported by the Creative Capital Foundation,
The NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The New England
Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, and Ucross. I received a Pew Fellowship in the
Arts, an Independence Fellowship in the Arts, and a Bessie for Choreography at
the New York Dance and Performance Awards.
Giveaway Details:
3 Winners
will receive a finished copy of WILDER, US Only.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
11/12/2018- Lifestyle Of Me- Review
11/13/2018- Here's
to Happy Endings- Review
11/14/2018- The
Pages In-Between- Review
11/15/2018- Adventures
Thru Wonderland- Review
11/16/2018- Novel
Novice- Excerpt
Week Two:
11/19/2018- BookHounds- Interview
11/20/2018- Do
You Dog-ear?- Review
11/21/2018- The Desert Bibliophile- Review
11/22/2018- Two
points of interest- Review
11/23/2018- Oh Hey!
Books.- Review
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I think maybe in-school suspensions like this would generally be an abuse of power, whether in my day or nowadays.
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