30 November, 2016

Waiting on Wednesday: The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane


Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane!

Let's go for some YA Contemporary this time, shall we?


Publication date: December 1st, 2016
Publisher: Skyscape

According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place—and she’s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head—and her home state—and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens.

Zander does not fit in—or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy. In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. There’s her cabinmate Cassie, a self-described manic-depressive-bipolar-anorexic. Grover Cleveland (yes, like the president), a cute but confrontational boy who expects to be schizophrenic someday, odds being what they are. And Bek, a charmingly confounding pathological liar.

But amid group “share-apy” sessions and forbidden late-night outings, unlikely friendships form, and as the Michigan summer heats up, the four teens begin to reveal their tragic secrets. Zander finds herself inextricably drawn to Grover’s earnest charms, and she begins to wonder if she could be happy. But first she must come completely unraveled to have any hope of putting herself back together again.

Plot wise I am not attracted much to it as I don't dig contemporary and the thought of teenagers stuck in a camp is quite old and honestly unsettling. But I like that it is not a normal camp, it's one for kids with special diagnoses and that makes me curious.

 What do you guys think?


Are you excited about The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland?