review: books... "Very LeFreak" by Rachel Cohn

rating: 2 out of 5

bottom line: a disappointment.

synop: Very is a techie in college that suffers from too-much-good-time syndrome: she excessively parties, buys stuff online with her maxxed out cards, gets drunk every night, and is promiscuous. In addition to that, Very is addicted to her iPhone, her playlists, her precious laptop, and El Virus, a guy she met online, that haunts her every thought and dream.

With her scholarship on the line, her friends decide to intervene: they take away her laptop, iPod, and send her off to tech camp. 28 days of electronics-free hell. No iPod, no iPhone, no IMing, no cell-phones, laptops, nothing.

Does Very have the strength to resist? or will she relapse?

Review: the synop sounds good. they all do. otherwise i wouldn't read them, now would i?

but i gotta say that this was a flopper.

the idea was really nice, and the beginning of the book was okay--i kept hoping that she would fall in love with Brian (her best bud that's also a [cute] techie). i mean he has feelings for her, she knows he does, but El Virus haunts her thoughts.

but the thing i'm not happy about is the ending of the book.

**SPOILER ALERT!!**

she ends up w. her roomate of all people. [we all knew that she was bi, but come on?! everyone loves a good best-friends fall in love book!]

the ending just left too much hanging: all the problems she had to deal with--her credit cards, school, ect. it was all ignored.

i mean, sure, you don't have to explicitly say it out loud and just imply it, but this implication-filled ending was unsatisfying.