The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney

The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney

Review of The Boy Recession

Title & Author:
The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney
Publisher:
Poppy
Publication Date:
August 07, 2012
Pages:
318
Source:
Publisher via NetGalley

It’s all about supply and demand when a high school deals with the sudden exodus of male students.

The boy recession has hit Julius P. Heil High, and the remaining boys find that their stock is on the rise: With little competition, even the most unlikely guys have a good chance at making the team and getting the girl. Guitar-strumming, class-skipping Hunter Fahrenbach never wanted to be a hot commodity, but the popular girls can’t help but notice his unconventional good looks. With a little work, he might even by boyfriend material.

But for down-to-earth Kelly Robbins, the boy recession is causing all sorts of problems. She has secretly liked her good friend Hunter for a while now, but how can she stand out in a crowd of overzealous Spandexers?

As if dating wasn’t hard enough without a four-to-one ratio! – Goodreads

I have no idea why I waited so long to pick up my e-ARC of The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney, but I do know that I am definitely going to purchase a finished copy ASAP. I absolutely loved The Boy Recession – it was such a hilarious read that I can’t recommend enough.

First of all, I loved all of the characters. Some of them were super realistic, you know, that-guy-sat-behind-me-in-English-class kind of realistic, and others were kind of the cliché bad girl or whatever, but in general, I loved them all because they all really stood out to me. There were no characters that Flynn Meaney really left hanging in the background – each of the characters played a part in The Boy Recession.

Also, no insta-love in The Boy Recession. It takes Hunter and Kelly an extraordinary amount of time to get together and I loved the way they started to build of their friendship and eventually worked up to a romance and even then they kind of took it slow. It really worked for me and I was rooting for them all the way.

Okay, I’m not going to lie. Hunter was totally the typical teenage boy and he was kind of a slob but he was also really nice and kind of swoony and he sang and played music and World of Warcraft and he was totally the kind of guy I dated in high school and I just loved him.

Flynn Meaney’s writing had me laughing so hard I could have cried. I picked up The Boy Recession planning to read for just a few minutes but the writing style had me hooked from the get-go and there was no way I was putting The Boy Recession down until I finished.

The way time passed in The Boy Recession was really interesting to me. I went back and forth on being really confused at the start of each chapter, wondering how far time shifted ahead (The Boy Recession takes place over the course of a full school year), but I also thought Flynn Meaney did the time passage in a really clever way. She didn’t make a big to-do about it, it just kind of happened and I liked that.

The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney is an absolutely hilarious contemp that I know I will be rereading every single time I need a pick-me-up. The Boy Recession is one of those books that is so relatable to your high school experience in nearly every way, yet it was still refreshing and just the perfect pick-me-up to knock you out of any funk.

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