Word Nerd

I really should have liked a YA book about Scrabble players more than this. I mean, really. I did like the Scrabble scenes a lot. Ambrose, the protagonist, is kind of annoying and awkward. He knows it, and it's intentional on the author's part, but after a while I was like, “I get it, you have no social skills. God.” I liked Cosmo, the ex-convict neighbor and Scrabble buddy. The crazy overprotective mom made me cringe, as she was supposed to do, I guess.