He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Book 7

by Robin Mayhall, Jane Elizabeth Irwin (Illustrator), Kristen Cella (Illustrator), Dirk I. Tiede (Illustrator)

Overview

Serena Stevens is already popular in her new school in the tiny Texas town of Rojo—so popular she has two guys interested in her. Self-assured Lance is a football star, and introverted Cam is an intellectual who gets nervous just working with her on their English project aboutDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In a town with a single-minded obsession with football, Lance is a great catch, but there's something unique about Cam. Between the two of them, Serena has the perfect boyfriend . . . if she can figure out how to keep them apart.

Soon there's much more to worry about when two cheerleaders go missing. Serena starts to wonder: could one of the guys be responsible? Appearances might be deceiving . . . and who will Serena end up with when things come to a boil?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761360056
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	My Boyfriend Is a Monster Series , #7
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	GN340L (what's this?)
Age Range:	13 - 14 Years

About the Author

Robin Mayhall is a public relations professional with more than 20 years of experience in business and feature writing. She lives in her hometown of Baton Rouge, La., writing science fiction short stories and poetry in her "spare time" with occasional help from her three cats. Mayhall's poetry has appeared in several print and online publications and has been nominated for an industry award. She graduated with a journalism degree with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin and has battled rheumatoid arthritis for more than 20 years.

Editorial Reviews

This weak entry in a generally well-founded series puts a high schooler between two hunky guys who turn out to be the same hunky guy. Hardly has Serena started at her new school in a small Texas town than she hooks up with hulking star quarterback Lance. She also agrees to become a study partner with mostly home-schooled, equally outsized Cameron—on an assignment analyzing (hint, hint) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Soon, she notices that the two are never seen together and, as time goes on, that Lance shuttles between sweet talk and an ugly temper that turns violent at any mention of Cam's name. The teens in Cella's black-and-white panels are engagingly distinct of look and personality, but Mayhall takes so long to set up the background and introduce the characters that the actual melodrama, revelations, climactic face-off and tidy resolution are crammed into the last 35 pages. Some chemistry (of the romantic sort), but the suspense is contrived and perfunctory. (Graphic paranormal romance. 12-14)

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