Firecracker
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings4
Average rating3.5
A hilarious tragicomedy from New Girl and SNL writer David Iserson! Being Astrid Krieger is absolutely all it's cracked up to be. She lives in a rocket ship in the backyard of her parents' estate. She was kicked out of the elite Bristol Academy and she's intent on her own special kind of revenge to whomever betrayed her. She only loves her grandfather, an incredibly rich politician who makes his money building nuclear warheads. It's all good until... "We think you should go to the public school," Dad said. This was just a horrible, mean thing to say. Just hearing the words "public school" out loud made my mouth taste like urine (which, not coincidentally, is exactly how the public school smells). Will Astrid finally meet her match in the form of public school? Will she find out who betrayed her and got her expelled from Bristol? Is Noah, the sweet and awkward boy she just met, hiding something?
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"The world turned and flung me."
I did not want to read this book at first.
This book was given to me as a gift by my grandparents. I had no interest in reading it when I had received it. None. At all. I throught this was going to be the most boring book in the world. I let this book sit on my shelf for about a year before I picked it up.
I then realized that I was very, very wrong.
Ths book was absolutely hilarious and heart-wrenching. I love Astrid and her sassiness, Lucy and her shy-awkwardness, and Noah. Just Noah.
I love the scenes with Astrid and her Grandfather, especially the one wher he takes her to the Louvre and tells her to steal a painting because its hers. And it absolutely broke my heart when he died.
“If you were quicker,” he said, “you would have had that damn painting. Astrid, never let anyone stop you from having everything you want.”“It's impossible, you know. I never could have had it.”“Impossible for everyone else, sure,” he said, “Not for you and me.”
“Fire is fierce. Fire is angry. Fire does whatever it fucking wants. I am a big fan of fire.”
