Adorkable

By: Cookie O'Gorman

Narrated by: Andrea Emmes

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Adorkable (ah-dor-kuh-bul): Descriptive term meaning to be equal parts dorky and adorable. For reference, see Sally Spitz.

Seventeen-year-old Sally Spitz is done with dating. Or at least, she's done with the horrible blind dates/hookups/sneak attacks her matchmaking bestie, Hooker, sets her up on. There's only so much one geek girl and Gryffindor supporter can take. Her solution: she needs a fake boyfriend. And fast.

Enter Becks, soccer phenom, all-around-hottie, and Sally's best friend practically since birth. When Sally asks Becks to be her F.B.F. (fake boyfriend), Becks is only too happy to be used. He'd do anything for Sal - even if that means giving her PDA lessons in his bedroom, saying she's "more than pretty", and expertly kissing her at parties. The problem: Sally's been in love with Becks all her life - and he's completely clueless.

©2016 Airianna Tauanuu writing as Cookie O'Gorman (P)2018 Tantor

Great Book

I love this book! Its such a refreshing take on an age old YA story line. Definitely a good read for all ages.

Great romance

My 16 year old daughter and I loved listening to every minute of this cute book!

Really cute highschool romance :)

The story and main character are really cute. Slightly hard on the suspension of disbelief (How dense can some one be XD),
but very cute and heart warming ^__^.
The narration was good as well :)

Typical teen romance...

I loved it.
It was a bit predictable and at times I wanted to just scream at the main characters but I enjoyed it. If you’re looking for something girly and lighthearted then this is for you.

Passable story. Decent voice work.

I don't expect much from a teen romance story, but this seemed to fall a bit short of even that. Some character reactions seemed contrived, and the protagonist seemed too clueless to be human.

Otherwise, it's enjoyable enough.

Cute

Predictable in a good way, the only odd thing was the way it was described when the main character spoke German. The narrator did it well (though I'm not a German speaker myself), it just seemed forced in places. Even with that, it was still a cute book.

adorkable too cute

loved it! once I started listening I had to finish, if I were reading a physical book would describe it as not being able to put it down.

Cute Story BUT OH MY GOD THE MOM AND FRIEND UGH

It was cute. If you're in the market for an easy read with some likeable mains and are as much of a sucker for the fake dating trope as I am, this is a good one to pick up.

(Real talk and spoilers ahead)

But honestly, the friend, Hooker (seriously why name your more promiscuous character Hooker? Like I know it's her last name and this book has a wierd thing with last names but for real.) had me wanting to throw the book out the window.

Hooker is the main character, Sally's, best female friend and also the reason for the plot to kick off, aka the reason Sally needs a fake boyfriend. Unfortunately, author did her job a little too well in making her completely overbearing and annoying, to the point that some of the things she does are completely, well, not irredeemable, but at the very least in need of some serious self reflection. Like, if I had a friend who treated me the way Hooker treated Sally, they would not be my friend for much longer.

Sally's inability to stick up for herself at all when her mom and friend plotted behind her back to force her on as many dates as possible didn't bother me... at first. Because, naturally, I assumed this would be a character flaw that she would have to overcome. Perhaps in... some kind of arc. Like books do with realistic, relatable characters, and Sally is nothing if not the epitome of a Relatable Character(TM)(she's Not Like Other Girls, you see). But by the end of the book no one has really learned their lesson. It's not even addressed. The fact that Sally had to resort to using her best friend as a fake boyfriend to stop her mom and Hooker from forcing boys (and at least one girl) on her was not even addressed with the aforementioned offenders. Like, there was a pretty clear resolution to this story that the author just didn't do.

Hooker and Sally's mom SHOULD have found out that Sally and Becks were in a fake relationship, and it SHOULD have been a come to Jesus moment for them where they understood the error of their overbearing ways. Sally straight up admits that she doesn't feel comfortable going anywhere anymore because she never knows when her friend or her mom are going to try to spring someone on her. And the lengths they go to are legitimately pathological sometimes, it's ridiculous. This girl is SEVENTEEN, so 1) she HAS TIME CALM TF DOWN 2) she's old enough to make her own decisions about who/when/IF she dates 3) the high school dating pool sucks most of the time 4) this is really something you should allow her to figure out on her own time and terms. For real, this was awful reading about and they NEVER GOT A SINGLE CLUE ABOUT HOW DAMAGING THEIR BEHAVIOR WAS AND I'M MAD ABOUT IT.

Overall, the relationship was cute and it was pretty clear that both of them were mutually interested in each other from the beginning so the main focus of the story was solid and cute. So... 2.75 stars from me. Probably won't reread but it was a pleasant way to spend the time, save for the crazy friends and moms, of course.

Cute, Quirky romance

I loved Adorkable!! It was a great romantic comedy about a girl finally having her best friend love her back. I loved Sally and Beck's relationship. Their love of Star wars and Beck's nickname for Sally. Sally reminded me of myself especially when I was in high school. The narrator was great at showing Sally's emotions especially when she was upset. I cried when Sally cried. That is how much this book affected me. I would recommend this to my friends.

I like this book so much I can not weate to read a nother book like this book.

I like the story so much
This is the best book ever it was so cool of a book.