I felt the story line with the jock (Yes, completely forgot his name in a short amount of time) with his parents are rushed (And the amount of disrespect- I was waiting for a slap or something. If I ever hung up on my parents...)
I liked Nate, he wasn't really annoying. Also I'm a sucker for two oppsitite types of people getting together. The main storyline I wasn't really impressed with, nothing different. ( )

I read such good reviews of this book, and I was disappointed. Really, guy jocks and girl cheerleaders? The nerds vs. the cheerleaders? Could we throw in a few more stereotypes? None of the characters were represented in a way that was fair or realistic. There were a couple of pages during the robot competition in the end when I liked the book, but I think that was just compared to how much I didn't enjoy the rest of it. I could see that it was supposed to be earth shattering that the nerdy main character (who was ridiculously mean, not nerdy!) and the jock guy were friends, but their characters were too flat and unbelievable to be interesting. The author boxed the characters into their gender roles and stereotypes so severely that when they were supposed to surprise you by breaking them, they still didn't seem like real people at all. There was a glimmer of interest here and there, but it could have been a lot stronger. ( )

Great fun. I haven't read Prudence Shen's work before, but Faith Erin Hill has become a new favorite. These two made a good team for this humorous story of a rivalry between a robotics club and a cheerleading squad, and the basketball player who's stuck in the middle.

The humor was just my type, with a couple references to SF pop culture that made me laugh out loud. My favorite is when the robotics club approaches the head cheerleader's mansion of a house to propose a truce. One of the kids looks up at the house and says, "That's no moon."

So if that made you laugh, give this a whirl. The writing's funny and there's visual comedic timing as well. And there's a sense of humanity and goodness beneath it all that sets it apart from the average story playing with these stereotypes. ( )

Reminded me a bit of Scott pilgrim. ( )

Really appreciated that the girls (and guys) are actually drawn pretty realistically -- no stick-skinny women or overly muscled men, just real people. ( )