I tried to like this book. I really did. But there's a certain demographic/audience for this and it looks like I'm not part of it. I didn't like this for the same reason that I don't click on every other video online that says "wahahaha laugh trip" or "watch Vice Ganda ________" or "buti nga sayo, gago". I didn't appreciate this for the same reason that I make sure I have my earphones on when in a PUV so I don't hear insert-PUV-radio-station-here DJs and their pick up lines. I couldn't jump into the bandwagon for the same reason I couldn't jump into our local TV's bandwagon. I get where the humor comes from. I know why it should be funny. I just wasn't laughing. My boss saw me reading it and said it was supposed to be funny so why did I look pissed? For the record, I always look pissed so I wasn't pissed. I didn't like the book, yes, but I didn't hate it either. The writing is raw. There was a time when I thought everything raw and contemporary was cool. I'm not that person anymore so I guess that was the problem.
In all fairness, the hardest part to publishing anything is actually writing it so I envy this guy for getting through that. Buti pa siya. At saka natawa pala ako sa part na: Ganyan ang boyscout. Laging handa. May dalang nanay.
Great concept but it's for a very specific target audience ... which is kind of ironic because that's how the fairy tale in the book is seen by the adults and most young adults in it. It wasn't a bad read, it was fast, as a matter of fact, and was okay. I just didn't get the satisfaction I normally do when reading Picoult. I'm not comparing genres and I think it's super cool how writers sometimes switch but maybe they should've put the daughter's name on the cover using a bigger font than the mother's. I'm sure it helped a ton with marketing. I just think it's too much of a teenager's story (which it is) from a teenager ... and not her mother. But ... yay for mother-daughter books, hey?
