Over You by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

Posted 2 August, 2012 by Danny in Blog, Danny, Danny's Book Review / 25 Comments

Over You

Genre: YA, Contemporary
publication: August 21st 2012 by HarperTeen
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Over You by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus , synopsis from goodreads: After the grand explosion of her relationship, seventeen-year-old Max Scott developed what every girl in the history of the world has been waiting for: a way to get over being dumped. Now Max is the go-to guru for heartbroken high-school girls all over NYC. But when her ex unexpectedly shows up in her neighborhood, Max’s carefully controlled world starts to unravel. With her clients’ hearts hanging in the balance, Max will have to do the seemingly impossible: get over him once and for all.

Brilliant at bringing humor to the trials and tribulations of the lovestruck, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus have crafted a tale that will resonate with any girl who has ever been in love or had her heart broken. It brims with smart observations, features a pitch-perfect teen voice, and will attract fans of Jenny Han, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Barnholdt. Readers are sure to fall head-over-heels for this sharp spin on breaking up, making up, and getting even.

Over You is one of those quick fun and cute Contemporary that should make it on your summer reading list!

What to do when you get dumped? Max knows best!

Max is an interesting main character and we follow the story through her eyes. Because of her mother’s job she had to move quite frequently and never really managed to settle down and make real friends. However, when attending a boarding school and meeting Perfect-Boy, who just ended up dumping her those heartbreaking moments, changed her.

This is when she decided to start helping other girls to get over a serious break with their boyfriends….

 

Max – strong heroine, who’s still just a girl wished to be loved…

Max seems like an extremely strong willed girl, who found a purpose in her young life and who knows exactly what she wants to be and what she wants to do with her life. But, there is more to Max than we see in the beginning and this is when Max became the really intriguing character. Because underneath all this strength there is a vulnerability surrounding her she doesn’t even want to admit to herself. However, sometimes I was slightly annoyed with her. She was very focused – but sometimes too headstrong. She had a very single minded approach to deal with her “clients”.

 

What is broken can never be repaired?

The plot follows Max and her co-workers when they were helping one girl to get over her boyfriend. This was the actual fun part of the book! The advice Max had was hilarious fun, but certainly very effective. But, within all this we also begin to wonder if her plan truly is the best for the dumped girl and her boyfriend? Can you never go back once you broke up? Is there never another chance? Max certainly thinks so, but we begin to wonder…

Even more, when Max Ex-Boyfriend takes stage again, Max suddenly lost all her strength and every wall she build around herself! This part of the plot wove perfectly into the whole scheme of the plot! Even more, it was not easy to figure this boy out, so we cannot blame Max completely!

 

Romance and Love!

Of course, the story deals more with the downside of love and romance, yet the authors wove in the perfect love interest for Max. Ben was a cute boy that might be the only one who manages to break Max shell! The romance didn’t take over too much of the plot, but it was certainly present and cute to follow! Ben was easily to fall for and it was easy to see for us that it would be good for Max to open up again… In the end though, especially this loved lacked the spark that made this story perfect. It was cute, but for me, this part could have been better developed. Especially when you consider that this book deals about love , this should have been a major part. I was not perfectly emotionally involved.

 Bewitched Rating

Bottom Line

This was a cute, fun and sweet read about Love and the loss of Love. What to do when you get dumped? Even more, Over You addresses basic questions about young teenage love in a funny and adorable way! Together with such a great heroine, who seems to be strong, yet in the end she’s just a girl who wants to be loved and not be heartbroken anymore…  The final lack of spark in the romance lead to my rating.

  

Additional Notes

I love author duo’s! I think it’s fantastic seeing 2 writes combine their talent! Emma McLaughlin  &  Nicola Kraus write together since 12 years and published together the famous Nanny Diaries . Also they seemed to be writing furiously and also published today by Atria Books “Between You and Me” which seems to be a New Adult – Adult story about a pop princess and sounds exciting!! It just came put June 12th and is in addition available as audiobook! I certainly will check this out!

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25 Responses to “Over You by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus”

  1. Sounds like a fun, easy read . Thanks for sharing your review of it. I am not a huge contemporary fan, but my daughters love this genre.
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    Danny 8/3/2012

    Truth to be told, I also wasn’t a huge fan until recently and right now I truly enjoy the genre much more!
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  2. Did you ever read The Nanny Diaries? It was pretty good. I hadn’t realized they’d written a YA book. I find this interesting, but it doesn’t seem that different from any other light YA book I’ve ever read. Not enough to make me want to pick it up.
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    Danny 8/4/2012

    No I never did. And it’s a cute YA but I do not think it sticks out so much, but still, it was a nice summer read:))
    But, I am now eager to pick up their adult book, this one sounds really good!
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  3. I started this book a couple of weeks ago but I just couldn’t get past a couple of chapters for some reason. I’m wondering now, after reading your lovely review, whether I should give the book another shot because it really does sound cute. Plus, Max seems like an interesting character.

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    Danny 8/4/2012

    I know this myself, sometimes you are not in the right mood for a certain kind of book! It was totally worth my while so maybe you pick it up again 🙂
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  4. I’ve always thought the key to getting over him is plenty of ice cream and violent action movies (where the ex- is the bad character who gets his in the end)! LOL. Sounds like a very cute story & I’ll be checking it out.
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    Danny 8/4/2012

    LooL Yes Mary in the end it’s this! But Max has a very distinct plan how to do this and it’s actually truly funny and somehow effective :))
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  5. Love how you review this! Especially the ‘What to do when you get dumped? Max knows best!” and “Romance and Love!” XD I love this book so much! Glad you like it too! 😀 Awesome review! 😀
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    Danny 8/4/2012

    Thanks Fara!! I’m happy to hear that you also enjoyed this one!!! It really had some great funny moments!
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  6. This sounds really cute, like the kind of book I want to read when I don’t want to think to heard of have my emotions played with. When I’m in the mood for that kind of read, I can deal better with not being as emotionally involved with the characters as I normally like. Beautiful review my friend!

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    Danny 8/4/2012

    Exactly! Those are the kind of books where you do not need to think and just read and enjoy, no big high emotions just light and fun!
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  7. I’m so excited about this one! I enjoyed The Nanny Diaries and Between You and Me is on my shelf, begging to be read.

    I’m sad that the romance aspect didn’t live up to your expectations, but aside from that it sounds like a cute read!
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    Danny 8/4/2012

    Are the Nanny Diaries more MG? And yes I am so excited for Between You and Me totally getting a copy for myself asap!

    I’m very hard when it comes to romance, if the romance manages to stir my emotions I am happy if not, I’m disappointed which might not be super fair.. but that’s me!
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  8. Aw, this book sounds adorbs! I remember flying through the Nanny Diaries so I think I’ll fly through this one too. It sounds like a nice fluffy contemporary! Great review, Danny. 🙂
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    Danny 8/4/2012

    Oh fluffy is a perfect way to describe this book :)) Hope you are going to like it!
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  9. This sounds like a fun read. I read The Nanny Diaries- but didn’t realize they have other books in different genres. Great review and thanks for sharing.
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    Danny 8/4/2012

    They really write a lot those two!!!!! I am especially eager not to pick up their adult book!
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  10. I’m kind of disappointed. I thought the love part would be really strong in this one. I don’t think I’ll read this one if you didn’t like the romance. Cause I know Danny and if the romance wasn’t enough for her, it won’t be enough for me! Great review though and I love co authors as well! Can’t wait for that next book. I like what I’ve seen in the new adult category!

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    Danny 8/4/2012

    *giggles* Yes I am a big sucker for the right ad perfect romance and it must manages to give me the emotions and the butterflies. Here, the romance was downplayed and I expected it to have a bigger impact on Max…
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