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post of books for geminis. i started following epic reads after i got a free tote from them at bookcon. anyway, this was the post:
i decided to read the improbable theory of ana & zak because i liked the title. i had no idea what the book was about but the title sounded cute. and i guess you can judge a book by its title because this book was cute.
the back cover broke down the story for me perfectly:
i figured this would be like a geeky nick and norah's infinite playlist, well sci-fi geeky, since nick and norah were music geeky.
as epic reads shared, this work would appeal to my dual nature and it did! the book flips back and forth between ana and zak's perspectives. ana was this overachiever, do anything for college applications girl (totally me!), and zak was this slacker, sci-fi, convention-attending boy. their paths crossed when zak, to make up for plagiarizing a report, joined the quiz bowl team that ana spearheaded, she was the unofficial captain of the team. they get off to a rocky start when at the tournament, zak took ana's place for one round, this totally pissed her off.
the weekend of the tournament, sadly conflicted with washingcon, a convention that zak attended every year. however, both are in seattle and miles apart. zak was disappointed but graduating was more important. with the con being so close to the tournament, he did considered going. however, he and ana end up at the convention when clayton, ana's little brother, took off to the convention after listening to zak's stories.
having never been to comic-con, but having attend hello kitty con and book con, i could imagine the chaos of washingcon. though reading this made me wish i had attended a comic-con.
ana and zak went on a wild goose chase looking for clayton to avoid getting in trouble with ana's parents. ana was super uptight and as it was revealed, because her parents kicked her older sister out because she got pregnant in high school. this caused ana to stress about being perfect. though she was annoyed with zak at first, she started to see that zak was a great and helpful guy.
i totally would have had a crush on zak in real life, though the goatee would have to go! that goatee was the only thing that ruined my book crushing on him. i hope ana got him to shave it. zak was this sweet and easy going guy, friendly to all. though his life wasn't perfect, it was revealed, his dad died of cancer, and he didn't get along with his stepdad. however, his issues didn't effect how he treated ana, unlike how she treated him. her meaness at the beginning is even more upsetting given how zak kept on getting beat up, thanks to ana.
since the setting is a con, a bunch of craziness happened, a vampire ball, a run-in with a strawberry shortcake cosplay player (is that right?), a battle, and like i mentioned, some fights. there was this weird twist, when zak found a bag of cocaine. he was held hostage with a gun, this felt too extreme for me. but the same thing happen on an episode of a different world, so i guess it could happen? i personally would have liked to have seen that part edited out because it felt too ridiculous to me. it just seemed unrealistic, and excessive.
in the end, zak and ana of course, fell in love. they found clayton, survived the drug dealer, and made it the tournament. i have to add i was anticipating that monte cristo question in the final round. the novel, being ya, cleaned up nicely, in the end, zak and his stepdad got along and ana finally stood up to her mom.
a cute book that i could totally see being turned into a movie. however, i am too old to know who plays teens now, so can't give a dream cast. this was an enjoyable read and if teen me had read it, i would have totally gone to comic con because of it. adult me might make it happen.
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