Suddenly, he seems to be everywhere, making Bianca’s already hatred for the boy only grow.

The resident man-whore, Wesley Rush, nicknames her, “Duffy” and doesn’t seem to go away. All of a sudden, she sees it and she gets it, and she’s simply horrified by it, because she believes it’s true. “WTF?” was pretty much Bianca’s response. She soon finds out through the school’s ‘too good-looking for his own good and worse he knows it’ man-whore that she is in her circle of friend’s the DUFF (Designated. Our main character, Bianca, reminded me so much of MTV’s ‘Daria’ with her cynical outlook, wit and sarcasm. Between the four hour car ride back home, then changing into pjs and landing on my glorious bed which I missed–terribly–I ended up reading the entire novel in one sitting. I wasn’t expecting my inability to put the book down. I had an entirely different expectation going into the novel because–as I found out upon completion–the movie premise was completely reinvented and only loosely adapted Kody Keplinger’s contemporary young adult novel.įor a reporter assignment, I had decided while I was on vacation for the new year (follow up blog about that coming up), that I would/should take a quick gander at the novel before reporting on it–duh, right? Anyway, I was in the middle of another read which sadly has been a bit slow paced for me, and decided to take a pause and hop on ‘ The Duff’ train. _ My Thoughts:īefore the book, I had first seen the trailer of the new adaptation that is set to release in theaters, February of this year. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.

It turns out Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face.īut things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot.

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