Evelina | AvalinahsBooks's Reviews > Sometimes I'm So Smart I Almost Feel Like a Real Person

Leverage is a Youtube video blogger who gives guys advice on how to approach The One. But frankly? It would be better if he didn't. Because Lev lives with his mom, who grounds him at pretty much age 30 and he has absolutely no connection with the realities of life. Unfortunately, Lev should be taking his own advice, cause he is in love with Emma. Which he dutifully does, to his credit. But for some reason, it's not working out...

So that's what it about. How much I liked it? Well... The book wasn't funny, although maybe it was supposed to. It was also supposed to show the main character as a guy completely oblivious to realities of life and the female mind. However... I don't believe he was written well enough to come across that way. Sometimes he just seemed normal, relatable. Sometimes it seemed like the author actually believes all this stereotypical stuff that he writes about women, and as a woman? It made me kind of annoyed (hey, I hate shoe shopping. And I don't like being talked about as some unknowable species, easily influenced by a change of mood. I'm a person, please and thank you.)

In the end, the story does take a quite turn and has quite a satisfying and surprising ending. It comes off being deeper than I had expected from this book. However... I still don't feel like it saves it for me. Very barely, 3 stars. I don't think this is Graham Parke's first book, but it feels like it could be. Parke has potential, but I didn't quite see it in this book.

I thank Graham Parke for providing me with a free copy of the book in exchange to my honest review. Sorry it wasn't a very good one!

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