A decent premise, this book quickly devolves into unacceptable behaviour and heavy handed stereotypes that made me feel uncomfortable starting about ten pages in until the end.

This book is about a boy that acts about age twelve and his first year in college, and is definitely written for the younger side of YA readers. As we explore Jimmy's first year at college we get to see him uncomfortably stalk a couple women, stereotype athletes and fraternity members, drop fandom after fandom reference in a hope to appeal to the nerdier amongst us (myself included!) and see his outrageously ignorant mother hire private eyes to investigate his love interest with only a mention of that being a little unusual instead of downright crazy.

This book was a cringe fest for me from beginning to end. Jimmy is intolerable, stalkerish (memorizing two different girls schedules so he can arrange to 'surprise' them repeatedly), and never actually seems to reach a point where he can relate to other people in ways that don't benefit him or his "nice guy" ideals. Even at the end what should come across as a wonderful thing he does for someone else <spoiler> when he turns Susan's comic over to Twin Cities is the result of him rummaging through someone else's notebooks, at least getting permission to borrow it to read, and then turning it over to a friend at a comic shop without saying a word! </spoiler>

This book could also use a little more editing. There is quite a plague of commas, especially towards the beginning of the novel, and several obvious homophonic errors ("what's that son, I couldn't quite here ya").

I'll give this a two because its an attempt at a sweet story by two oblivious individuals who must not realize they wrote an absolute creeptastic tale.

For full transparency, I was an engineering student, a super nerd, the VP of my fraternity, and had normal healthy relationships with women in college. Also, don't play the fandom name drop game for Star Wars and use midi-chlorines at the same time.

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own, and I promise not to hold anything back because I got the book for the same price as using the library :-)