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21st book read in 2019.Number 146 out of 769 on my all time book list.Hilarious and beautiful. Book goes to the edge of shark jumping and pulls back nicely.
I couldn't get into this story, but the artwork was perfect! Drake was the cutest character, a lovely shy guy. As far as Ashton and Margret, well, I didn't like either of them.
Ashton Archer is an ASSHOLE. He's a rich, narcissistic son of a bitch whose primary interests include cheating the system and screwing over women. When beautiful, busty Margaret Sheldon comes into his life, Ashton's tricks don't work on her. What's more, she ruins his machinations and leaves him entirely devoid of women's attention. Ashton must redeem himself in order to reassemble his life and find real happiness.Redemption arcs only work if the character in question has likable qualities; Asht...
The plot...is complicated. We all know that Margaret Sheldon is the main cause of Ashton Archer's downfall. But seriously... The story takes place in a realistic fiction setting. Not adding the ingredient of a fantasy genre. Why bother with the ancestry?
Really love the art, but unlike her Blue Monday series I didn't really care about the characters.Read as individual comics.
This was included in a Humble bundle I’ve been reading through, and rom-com is not a preferred genre of mine. I opened it since I’d bought it, and the art wasn’t bad. The story seemed fairly standard fair rom-com though. The guy-who-has-it-all meets a girl who is intelligent enough to be disgusted by everything about him. She is perfectly justified. He can’t stand it and cycles back and forth between pursuit-scams and trying to avoid her. It’s a rom-com. Obviously they end up together. I can’t b...
I have mixed feelings about this book. At first I thought it was brilliantly funny because it's a parody of toxic masculinity and male entitlement. But the last chapter turned all that upside down. The dialoge is witty and funny, Flores' art is a mixture of western and manga style that fits the story well. If you're into young adult rom-com and like scooters this might be for you.
I really liked how the author gave this book its own soundtrack of songs to be played at different points. I kept having to cue up the songs on Youtube & it definitely introduced me to some 60s/70s sounds I was unfamiliar with before! This was about the only thing I liked about the book though...somewhat shallow characters & the main character is a womanizer with nothing redeeming about them at all. Alas.
Nope. Treats misogyny and murder as lightly comical. The main character is an egotistically vile douchenozzle. This would be a 1.5-star rating if Goodreads did halfsies (half for story, 1 for art). I do like the art, so two stars. Which is generous. Tonally all wrong. Overall, just....nope.
Solid book with fantastic art. The main character is a douche bag who is hard to sympathize with and his inner monologues go on forever. Basic premise is Ashton Archer is a guy who gets anything he wants, girls, money, friends until Margaret comes along. She busts him for being a horrible person and he spazs out whenever he's around her. He becomes obsessed with her and not in a good way. Received an advance copy from Image and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
True Romance story about a teenage LotharioSet in a mods era, this story tells of Ashton, a teenage Lothario, bedding all and sundry, falling for the Scooter Girl of the title, Margaret. Along the way to trying to win the girl, accidents happen, other characters get involved and a curse is suggested.When it comes down to it, that's about it really. If you're into teenage love tales, this may suit you. Clearly illustrated (although sometimes it is difficult to distinguish some of the male charact...
So I enjoyed this story but some parts seemed just extra crazy to me, but that was probably personal. After reading I really wish I had read this when I was younger and I think then it would have been a 5. Still would suggest it to read though.
I can't be bothered to write an actual review of this. I really disliked this comic for a lot of reasons, but first, a quick summary:The gist of the plot is that Ashton Archer is a douchebag fuckboy who has wealth, good looks and the admiration of everyone around him. When the gorgeous Margaret Sheldon comes to town, she sees through his stupid act and quickly knocks him down several pegs. Jump forward a few years and Ashton has moved away to try to regain the life of debauchery that Margaret to...
Some of the panels are nicely drawn, but the storyline was a bit too easy (as well as downright silly in parts). I couldn't get interested in the characters or their lives and constant pratfalls tire quickly. But hey - pretty scooters! And the suggested soundtrack is a nice touch.
The art was stunning but the story ultimately left a lot to be desire
it wasn't the best graphic novel i've ever read but it had some fun moments. the "plotting to kill the girl" part was where i really lost my interest, honestly, and saw the ending straight ahead. the real pull here is clugston-major's aweome drawing skills.
More reviews (and no fluff) on the blog http://surrealtalvi.wordpress.com/ Scooter Girl is a very difficult graphic novel to quantify. Slippery as an eel and about as fun to read as playing with that slimy sea creature, what we have is a story full of foul characters doing really stupid and pointless things. Perhaps an ode to the dilettantes of the 2000 era, its superficiality is disguised by a mod-like 1960s setting. It's neither here nor there: not a romance, not a contemporary, not a hist
Scooter Girl made me want to buy my Vespa. Of course, I had already bought and been riding my LX150 for years by the time I read Chynna Clugston's ode to love, revenge, cheap morals, and the scooter nation. So I presume that the joy her slender volume of six sequentially illustrated chapters gave me somehow crossed the boundaries of time and arrived to me in the past before I had bought my own beloved Vespa. The book is that much fun. And while it's never really the point (love is), the book can...
I loved the art and the characters in theory were great, but unfortunately this was not the story I was looking for. It was too easy and too vapid and by the end I just didn't care what happened. I wish this had stated differently and gone a different way. Oh well.
I probably would have liked this book more if I had read it when it originally came out. Then again, maybe not; my twenty year old self didn't have a lot of patience for romance--especially douchebags in romance. Ashton Archer, the protagonist of Scooter Girl is not unlike the protagonist of another book I read recently, Pounded. Both characters are rich trust fund jerks who coast through life in a never ending party, manipulating women into sleeping with them and hanging out with their bros. An...