Guy in Real Life, Steve Brezenoff
Guy in Real Life, Steve Brezenoff
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Guy in Real Life

Author: Steve Brezenoff

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews, Arielle DeLisle

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 05/27/2014

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real Life, an achingly real and profoundly moving love story about two teens that National Book Award–finalist Sara Zarr has called ""wholly original and instantly classic.""It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again.But they don't.This is a story of the roles we all play—at school, at home, online, and with our friends—and the one person who might be able to show us who we are underneath it all.

About Steve Brezenoff

Steve Brezenoff is the author of the young adult novels The Absolute Value of -1, which won the IPPY Gold Medal for young adult fiction, and Brooklyn, Burning, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book, was a Best Fiction for Young Adults selection by the American Library Association, and won the ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal for young adult fiction. Born on Long Island, Steve now lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Beth, and their son and daughter, Sam and Etta. His main is a Blood Elf monk, but he's been known to run a Night Elf priest from time to time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on March 02, 2014

I haven't loved a book this much since I read Eleanor & Park. Such authentic characters, and a really sweet falling-in-love story. I'm not into gaming stuff, but actually really enjoyed that (smallish) aspect of the story - but I adore real-life Lesh and Lana so much.......more

Goodreads review by caren on December 09, 2013

I was so excited for this book. I mean, it doesn't come out until next year--and I didn't need to read it yet, but romance is my thing and I have a bad habit of limiting myself when my curiosity is high. So I jumped into this over the weekend, and let me tell you this: I don't think my nerdiness was......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on May 17, 2014

1.5 stars. John Green + Rainbow Rowell? NO NO NO.......more

Goodreads review by C. L. on June 25, 2014

I... this book is all over the place, and because of that, I have a very hard time pinning down my thoughts on it. I can tell you that as a tabletop gamer, an occasional resident of WoW, and a person who has lived in every neighborhood described, I am pretty much as close to a target audience as one......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on November 14, 2014

1) This is about 75 times more nerdy than you think its going to be. 2) I found the prose and pacing to be occasionally lacking. 3) This is the first YA romance I've read in ages that actually *felt* like my own teen romances - all, "argh, why did I say that in the cafeteria and now he/she's being wei......more

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