Promposal by Rhonda Helms

Promposal by Rhonda Helms

Expected Publication: February 10, 2014

How I Acquired This Book: Edelweiss Digital ARC Copy

promposal (n.)–an often public proposal, in which one person asks another to the prom, eliciting joy or mortification.

Camilla can’t help hoping her secret crush, Benjamin, might randomly surprise her out of the blue with a promposal. However, when she’s asked to prom by an irritating casual acquaintance–wearing a fancy tux and standing in front of a news crew–she’s forced to say yes. Yet all hope’s not lost. A timely school project gives Camilla a chance to get closer to Benjamin…and it seems like the chemistry between them is crackling. But is she reading into something that isn’t there?

Joshua, Camilla’s bestie, has been secretly in love with his gay best friend, Ethan, since middle school. Just as he decides to bite the bullet and ask Ethan if he’ll go to prom with him, even if just as friends, he gets a shocking surprise: Ethan asks Joshua for help crafting the perfect promposal–for another guy. Now Joshua has to suppress his love and try to fake enthusiasm as he watches his dreams fall apart…unless he can make Ethan see that love has been right in front of his eyes the whole time.

The road to the perfect promposal isn’t easy to navigate. But one thing’s certain–prom season is going to be memorable.

(Summary from Goodreads)

When I read the summary of Promposal on Edelweiss, I instantly had an interest in reading it. I had known about “promposals” since the first season of Laguna Beach 10 years ago. Seeing the cast on the show being asked to prom in such special ways made me so excited for my own senior prom (which at the time was about 7 years away). Once I got to high school and Facebook became a big thing, I would see a lot of cute promposals posted on there as well. Well come senior year, prom season was a huge disappointment. Prom itself was pretty fun, but not a single person I went to school with did any sort of promposal. I’m not even sure how guys asked girls to the prom because it seemed to happen overnight. I still love seeing the promposals online and on the news now that I am out of high school.

I originally thought Promposal was going to feature multiple characters and their promposals. I’m not quite sure where I got this idea from since there are clearly only three characters, all best friends too, that are mentioned in the summary. I also wasn’t too impressed with the promposals that did happen in the book. I was expecting some pretty extravagant promposals and they just seemed mediocre to me. I guess I was hoping for cute, romantic promposals and there was only one in the whole book.

I did however like the characters. They seemed very realistic, which is what I like when the characters are supposed to be high school students. They all face smaller issues besides who is going to be their date and who is going to ask them and/or who they are going to ask to prom. The smaller issues they face are ones every reader would be able to relate to. Simple things like having a secret crush on someone or dealing with parents that often butt their nose into personal business. I honestly don’t think I could have picked one character I liked over the other. Each chapter switches back and forth between Camilla and Joshua. It was also refreshing to see a gay couple, open in high school and going to prom together.

Promposal was a short, cute, quick read. I think this only took me a couple of hours to finish reading. The book itself didn’t have too much substance, but the characters were enjoyable and fun. I would recommend this to teens and young adults in high school. If you love prom and prom related things, you’d definitely enjoy this book.

Top Ten Tuesday 07/01/2014

Ah, my favorite blogging day of the week, as well as the first post for the new month, anddddd my 50th post on this blog! Yay! Every week when Tuesday comes around I am so excited to post my Top Ten Tuesday list. Each week there is a different topic and Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week’s topic is,

Top Ten Favorite Classic Books (however you define classic)

Eh, this week will prove to be tricky though because I define “classic” as books like, To Kill a Mockingbird or Catcher in the Rye, and I often don’t read books like those unless it is for school. So, I am going to try to come up with a list and they may not all be defined as classics to you, but I am going to come up with my own list of children’s and YA books that I feel are classics (and of course ones that I have read and enjoyed).

1.) Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

2.) Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

3.) Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

4.) Forever… by Judy Blume

5.) Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

6.) Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

7.) The Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin

8.) The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

9.) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

10.) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

11.) Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom (loved this book)

12.) June B. Jones series by Barbara Park (R.I.P. I grew up reading Junie B. Jones and read them to the girls I used to be a nanny for)

There are so many more that I guess I would consider to be children’s classics because they were either published before I was born and I read them and children still are or I grew up reading them and children are still reading them today. Making this list makes me a bit nostalgic and I think I may have to find a few of these books at the library and reread them.

May (& April) Monthly Wrap Up

I know I’m a few days early, but with my two month break I figured who cares? I have quite a handful of books I read between then and now and also recently did a book haul before I went camping Memorial Day weekend. I also figured it would be better to post this today because tomorrow starts my first day of work at my new job. Yay for a new job, but boo for having to wake up at 4:30 in the morning. I’m also incredibly nervous because my new job is a server at a restaurant in a casino, and I have zero experience serving in a restaurant setting. (By the way does every state have casinos in them? I know obviously Nevada does..Las Vegas, New Jersey..Atlantic City, and I’m pretty sure Pennsylvania and New York do as well.) Anyways, I’m working full time and the drive is also a little over an hour so I am not sure if I will get up to two reviews a week but I will definitely still do TTT and one review. (I already have a double review -the two books go hand in hand- to post over the weekend.) So onto to the books I have read since my last post in April. Since I haven’t posted reviews, and there isn’t enough time to post them all, I will include my rating and a quick review or note for the book.

 

Snapshot by Angie Stanton – 5 Stars. I fell in love with this book from the first page and it is definitely one I would recommend as a summer or beach read. It’s also a companion novel to one of her other books (which I am definitely ordering asap).

Every Little Thing in the World by Nina de Gramont – 4 Stars. Definitely refreshing and original. Once again a good, easy summer read. Made me want to go on a canoeing/camping trip for two weeks with a bunch of friends.

In Your Room by Jordanna Fraiberg – 3.5 Stars. Once again refreshing and original, as well as a super quick and easy read. Really cute and is one I will most likely read again.

Moonglass by Jessi Kirby – 5 Stars. Absolutely love this book! Great for bringing to the beach. Just fell in love with everything about this book and have not a single complaint.

The Ruining by Anna Colomore – I actually posted in my March wrap up that I was going to review this book and I still will because I feel like it was so good that it needs a review.

If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin – 4 Stars. This book was so good, and had be bawling my eyes out like a baby at some points. Definitely read when you’re alone!

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson – 5 Stars. So happy I finally have read this book. I loved every page and understand why everyone raves about it. So far Morgan Matson has not failed to pull me into her novels. Can’t wait to read her newest!

Monument 14: Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne – 4 Stars. Great way to end the trilogy. I loved how in the last few chapters everything tied in and made sense and was just perfect as it could be in their situations. Had me up late turning the pages because I couldn’t take a break.

And last but not least…….

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – 5+ Stars. Why anyone allowed me to wait until a couple of weeks ago to read this book makes me mad. I fell in love with the storyline and the characters. Obviously like everyone else I cried more than any book has made me cry before. I had to put the book down twice until I could compose myself. I’m already planning on bringing a whole box of tissues when I go see this in the theaters. I’m also keeping my fingers crossed that it does the book justice. Anyone interested in seeing the movie, read the book first!!!

 

I am pretty positive those are all the books I have read besides the two I plan on reviewing over the weekend. I also have about 10 new books from the past week as well as a good amount of ARCs I’ve downloaded this past week on my Kindle, so I should be set for reviews for a while. I will probably try to review a few of the books I posted in this post because some were too good not to get a full post to themselves.