Review: The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You – Lily Anderson

Posted December 12, 2016 by Andi in Books, Review / 2 Comments

Review: The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You – Lily AndersonThe Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson
Published by St. Martin's Griffin
Published: May 17th 2016
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Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Doctor Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West--and his horrendous new mustache that he spent all summer growing--down to number four.

Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books--well, maybe not comic books--but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Over a decade later, it's time to declare a champion once and for all.

The war is Trixie's for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben's best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben's cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. When Trixie's best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they're on--and they might not pick the same side.

I was told by a lot of people to read The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You. Gail actually told me to read it so much that I bought the book one day when I was with her. But then the book just sat and sat. Finally I just decided to pick it up and I’m so happy I did. It was cute and adorable and nerdy and fun. 

The Only Thing… is about a group of students that go to the super smart kid school. They are all nerdy geniuses that could test out of high school but instead go to a super competitive school for nerds together. Trixie is the main character and she has a goal Senior year and it is to beat her nemesis, Ben West, in class ranking. That’s all Trix wants and she is going to get it. That is until her best friend starts dating Ben’s best friend and weird things start happening at school. Soon Trixie has no idea what she wants. All she knows is she needs to stop what’s happening and she may just need Ben to do it.

I truly loved this book. It was predictable, but one of those predictable books you don’t mind. Ben and Trixie had amazing banter and were super quick witted. I loved watching their idea of the other change slowly and not over night. And I loved the friends they had that aided this change. They both needed a shove in the right direction and they got it. Truly the only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was because it was slow in the beginning. But once it got started it really kept me sucked in.

The Only Thing… is definitely a book I would recommended.  It had a great mystery, a great friendship aspect, and a great romance. There were a ton of nerdy references (I admit I only understood about half) and ‘geek duels’. It was just a fun book that I would recommend. But man I needed more kissing. ?

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2 responses to “Review: The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You – Lily Anderson

  1. This one sounds very fun–I’ve seen a lot of flowing reviews for it lately. I realize now that I have had it confused with a 2015 release that was written in list/note form for the better part of a year. Might be time to reconsider this one now that I actually know what it’s about!

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