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el libro no esa malo, el problema es que yo fui con la intención de leer algo divertido, y la verdad es que Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me es un libro más bien educativo. Aprendí bastante sobre narración y arquetipos y muchas otras cosas que me servirán la próxima vez que catalogue un libro, y espero también a la hora de reseñar.

Si bien el libro tiene sus momentos de gracia, hay un problema cuando quieres hacer comedia, en este caso parodia y ya lo había dicho antes que, si no lo haces bien, no funciona, si el lector correcto no lee el libro, no funciona. Por la cantidad de buenas puntuaciones que le han dado en Goodreads, es muy probable que el problema haya sido yo.

Quizás me ha pasado lo que a muchos les pasó con Tousle Me, se burló tanto de algo que me gusta que dejó de ser broma y empezó a ser un poco cruel. Las cinco primeras bromas me hicieron sonreír, pero cuando le iba una y otra vez a lo mismo, ya no tanto. Las ocurrencias empezaron a convertirse en menosprecio y se me hacía un poco incómodo seguir leyendo.



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I've been chosen as one of @broodingYAhero's street team members for their new book called Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me. If you don’t know anything about the swoonworthy guy, you should head on over to @broodingYAhero on twitter to get a taste for his tweets. You won’t regret it, and soon we’ll be in competition for his attention. I first met the amatory and effulgent character when I joined twitter last year. Relatively new to the book blogging community, I was simply looking for YA twitter users to follow. What I found was witty banter from the one and only @broodingYAhero and I’ve been following ever since!

9.19.17 UPDATE:

I was given an ARC of this book for winning a Broody Street Team Challenge.

For all Young Adult readers, this is the book for you! This book talks about all the things that go through your head when reading a YA book, no matter what sub-genre. It discusses tropes, clichés, character types, genres, settings, and plots. Things we readers love to complain about and wish could change about the genre. As a reader or a prospective writer, this really is a book for everyone.

As someone who’s been following BroodingYAhero on twitter for a loooong time I was so excited to hear that Carrie was going to be writing a book from Broody’s POV. He never fails to make me laugh and this book met and went beyond my expectations.

Our hero, Broody McHottipants takes us through what it’s like to be a main character and how to be a main character and honestly it was so wholesome and inspiring. Normally after I read a good book, I go on Goodreads and like my favorite quotes- for this I would literally be liking the ENTIRE book it was such a hilarious read.

Did I mention that this book is INTERACTIVE??? Not only is there a plot about Broody writing a book about how to be a main character, and not only is the information delivered in an easy to learn way, but there are also fun quizzes and games. I read everywhere, and inevitable had it out during my lunch break at work. Soon my entire workplace was doing the Madlibs from this book! I didn’t know that I could swoon over something other than our Brooding YA hero, but I did for this book. This book deserves all of the positive adjectives you can think of and shines brighter than Broody’s miraculous gemstone eyes (please don’t tell him I said that).

I am literally SO excited for this to come out so that I can see all of the gorgeous illustrations that will go in the official release! ( )

Young adult fiction is potential captured and frozen--a bright bolt of lightning caught on the page for everyone to read. It is both universal and incredibly personal, changable and yet constant.

An unexpectedly clear, beautiful and insightful line from a book that was otherwise fun but facile. (And the quote is on the last page.) This book was clearly put together by people who love YA, and with that deep love and familiarity are all too aware of its many flaws. But the salient points of good and bad (in character, in plot, in setting, in exploring all of the above in dynamic motion) get lost amidst the ongoing woffle of the voice. (This might have worked better as a serious book with twitter-esque interjections.) ( )

3.5 ( )