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    The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
    The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
    The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland

    Written by Rebekah Crane

    Narrated by Caitlin Kelly

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place—and she’s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head—and her home state—and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens.

    Zander does not fit in—or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy. In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. There’s her cabinmate Cassie, a self-described manic-depressive-bipolar-anorexic. Grover Cleveland (yes, like the president), a cute but confrontational boy who expects to be schizophrenic someday, odds being what they are. And Bek, a charmingly confounding pathological liar.

    But amid group “share-apy” sessions and forbidden late-night outings, unlikely friendships form, and as the Michigan summer heats up, the four teens begin to reveal their tragic secrets. Zander finds herself inextricably drawn to Grover’s earnest charms, and she begins to wonder if she could be happy. But first she must come completely unraveled to have any hope of putting herself back together again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781531846039
    The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
    Author

    Rebekah Crane

    Rebekah Crane is the author of The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland and other young-adult novels. She found a passion for this genre while studying secondary English education at Ohio University. She is a former high school English teacher, a yoga instructor, and the mother of two girls. After living and teaching in six different cities, Rebekah finally settled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to write novels and work on screenplays. She now spends her days tucked behind a laptop at seventy-five hundred feet, where the altitude only enhances the writing experience.

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    • 5/5
      I wasn’t expecting to cry with this. Wow so freaking good. I love each character I love the story and getting to know them. I wasn’t expecting to listen to this but wow. I couldn’t stop. Cassie… omg!!!!
    • 3/5
      This cute, quick, book was a freebie from Amazon firsts. Zander spends the summer at a camp for damaged teens. All of the campers have some sort of issues, be it eating disorders, cutting, depression, or some other thing they are dealing with at home. Cassie is another camper there who eats diet pills as food and is so angry and belligerent that all have given up on her. Grover is worried that he will become schizophrenic like his father. Bec is a chronic lier but so underdeveloped that I'm not sure of his real purpose in the story. And that is my disappointment with this story. I feel like there could have been more to it. It just brushed the surface of so many things and didn't really delve deep enough.
    • 3/5
      i went to enough boarding camps with f'd up kids, counselors and all the rest to know that everyone's got their own crazy and that some among us are textbook or at least acting that way and others can be quietly a hair's breadth away from self harm while the banality and mayhem and hijinks of whatever passes for everyday life is going down

      what this book's got right is readability - it's a page turner and it draws the reader in emotionally but also through humor.

      what feels contrived are the characters who are little more than stereotypes of their diagnosis - a bit like a human zoo built from the DSM.

      what's to love ? the idea that relationships can and will grow anyplace, even ( or especially ? ) in groups like those who inhabit camp padua's cabins for the summer .
    • 2/5
      It is my belief that there is no good reason a Young Adult book needs to be less well written than a regular book. Unfortunately, with a very few exceptions, in my experience, that is too often the case. I try to take into account the fact that I apparently skipped over my youth entirely and failed to live the experiences YA authors insist on projecting upon their characters. Parents and authority figures are endlessly stupid, stubborn, and unaware (which may be often true), but they are also vague, almost ghost-like characters that float in and out of the main characters' lives, which begs the question, why interact with them at all if they're so worthless. More importantly, the youthful characters themselves often behave nothing like anyone I knew way back in my own ancient times. This book is particularly bad in that respect. A short synopsis for this book would be many messed up kids go to a camp to interact with other messed up kids with the help of messed psychology applied by forever interfering messed up adults...and the messed up kids end up saving themselves from their mess. What are the odds? Speaking of odds, what are the odds the title of the book would not mention either of the two most critical characters, nor the main point of the book? I will let any future reader to discover for themselves what problems lay within the narrative, but I will say that at just about the time I was getting ready to stop reading altogether, the author, having set the stage in such a flimsy way, proceeds to do a very fine job of tying things together at the end. Adults all of a sudden become real people. Youthful characters act in realistic ways to both each other and to their situation. I actually liked the ending. Too bad I don't trust the author to avoid similar pitfalls in any other works.
    • 2/5
      Good: Lots of talk about how important hope and perseverance are in life, which is something a YA audience needs to hear. The letters at the beginning of each chapter were a good idea.

      Bad: Lack of consent, lack of protection talk (did they have sex or just make out though? could not tell), homophobic jokes, white savior (Zander saving the "angry black woman" Cassie). The author was pretty flippant (for lack of a better term) with mental illness, too.

      Zander's problem was that her little sister choked on an apple at age two, fell into a coma, and her parents brought her home and kept her there (still in a coma) for six years until she died. WTF?! Who does that?

    • 1/5
      From the book jacket: According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place – and she’s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head – and her home state – and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens. Zander has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy. In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. … Amid group “share-apy” sessions and forbidden late-night outings, unlikely friendships form, and the teens begin to reveal their tragic secrets. Zander finds herself inextricably drawn to (fellow camper) Grover Cleveland’s earnest charms, and she begins to wonder if she could be happy. My reactionsOkay, I knew this was a YA novel about a summer camp for at-risk teens, going into it. I knew from the title and cover art that some sort of summer romance would come into play. But I am so over the teen angst phase of my life, that I find it overly dramatic and cliched. In addition to Zander the kids at camp include: her cabin mate Cassie, who describes herself as a a “manic-depressive-bipolar-anorexic,” Alex Trebec, called Bek, who is a pathological liar, and Grover Cleveland (yes, like the president), a cute guy who is certain he’ll be schizophrenic one day, given his family history. We don’t know Zander’s problem up front, but she has a tendency to obsessively conjugate French verbs when feeling stressed. Populating the novel with these kids was just a bit too over-the-top for me to enjoy it. The crisis that results in some break throughs is somewhat believable given the emotional and mental difficulties these kids face. But the way in which this is resolved is totally unbelievable. It’s a relatively fast read, and satisfied a couple of challenges, so I finished it, but that was really time wasted.
    • 2/5
      It's a very predictable book. I like a good cheesy love story but adding the fact that the one of the two lovebirds being that this camp was for the most ridiculous reason ever made me want to throw my kindle out the window. This was not the cheesy love story for me.
    • 4/5
      This is a good book for any age. It is a story about of teens who go to summer camp to recover from various problems. It is like rehab. Good story.