A guest review from Teen Room Staff Brandon!
Carter is a hot-shot freshman, determined to conquer his new high school. Like many freshman, he has slight delusions of grandeur that high school is all about sex, parties, and rock and roll. Carter wants to be accepted most of all. To achieve acceptance, he joins the football team, goes to upper class parties, and just generally tries to fit in. Of course, his attention deficit disorder doesn’t help very much.
Carter is a traditional lazy freshman, so naturally he aspires to be the kicker, the laziest position on the team. Hilarity ensues on Carter’s journey to eventually become the varsity kicker. During his debut, he manages to shank his very first kick so much that the football flies into the pep band and knocks out a trombone player.
Carter is also searching for love and sex, and unfortunately for him, he’s searching for both at the same time, which is often a search which ends in disaster. His main love interest of the book is Abby, a drill teamer, (one of the girls deemed “not-good-enough” for the ever-popular dance team.) Unfortunately for Carter, he doesn’t realize that he has fallen for Abby until she has moved on from him.
Carter’s journey through freshman year is a good tale of the quest for love, acceptance, and most importantly, a sense of direction in life. Although my review may not give a very well detailed view of the book, it was an enjoyable read and one I would highly recommend.
--Brandon
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