Thus, if he can win this coveted position, Joey could, hypothetically, take Blaine back.īlaine realizes that running for student council president is going to be an uphill battle for someone who has had no presence with their peers. With the memory of Joey calling Blaine too “unserious” for him to date, Blaine wants to prove that he can be an austere person as well. The reason that Blaine thinks that this will win his ex back is that Joey, himself, is the current student council president for the senior class. After thinking for a minute about what he wants to do moving forward with his life, he decides to win Joey back by running for student council president. However, he declines, explaining he needs time to think and maybe take the season off from his art, admitting that this is indeed related to the breakup. Blaine is crushed and spends his spring break laying in bed, despairing at the loss of his dream boyfriend who dumped him on their one-year anniversary at the fanciest restaurant in town.īlaine’s friends help dig him out of the depths of his depression by getting him an artistic project at the local coffee shop they all love to go to. His (now ex) boyfriend is especially popular, the senior class president, and rich, which Joey explains is why they are incompatible. This story follows Blaine, a junior in high school who does not get the best grades but makes up for it with his big heart and passion for art. The writing is humorous, playful, and charming, while still capturing the obnoxiousness that is the high school experience.
However, I was utterly blown away by this story. I am always skeptical about contemporary novels, especially when the story takes place in a high school. In 2022, Couch published the novel Blaine for the Win. Determined to prove that Blaine can be what Joey wants, Blaine decides to enter the running to become his successor (and beat out Joey’s new boyfriend, Zach) as senior student council president.Robbie Couch is a breakthrough author in the young adult genre, publishing his debut novel in 2021. And if Joey wants to go far in life, he needs to start dating more serious guys. Because, according to Joey, Blaine is too goofy, too flighty, too…unserious. Popular of Wicker West High School, Joey-is going to invite Blaine to spend spring break with his family in beautiful, sunny Cabo San Lucas. And he is absolutely, 100% positive that aforementioned perfect boyfriend-senior student council president and Mr. High school junior Blaine Bowers has it all-the perfect boyfriend, a pretty sweet gig as a muralist for local Windy City businesses, a loving family, and awesome, talented friends. After being dumped so his boyfriend can pursue more “serious” guys, a teen boy decides to prove he can be serious, too, by running for senior class president in this joyful romp from the author of The Sky Blues.
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