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Seventeen-year-old Maggie Cunningham is tough, smart, and sassy. She’s also not like other girls her age, but then, who would be when the family business is monster hunting? Combat boots, ratty hooded sweatshirts, and hair worn short so nothing with claws can get a grip, Maggie’s concerns in life slant more toward survival than fashion or boys. Which presents a problem when Maggie’s mother informs Maggie that she can’t get her journeyman’s license for hunting until she loses her virginity. Something about virgin blood turning vampires into pointy rage monsters. Blood and gore and insides being on the outside and all that. Maggie’s battled ghosts and goblins and her fair share of house brownies, but finding herself a boy-fitting in with her peers-proves a much more daunting task than any monster hunt. Did you know normal girls don’t stuff their bras with holy water balloons? Nor do they carry wooden stakes in their waistbands. And they care about things like “matching” and “footwear.” Of course, they also can’t clean a gun blindfolded, shoot a crossbow, or exorcise ghosts from a house. Which means they’re lame and Maggie’s not. Because Maggie’s awesome. The Awesome, in fact. Just ask her. She’d be more than happy to tell you. After she finds herself a date.
The Awesome, by Eva Darrows- Amazon Sales Rank: #136407 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "Blisteringly funny and unrepentantly crass, Maggie's hard-edged narration is the soul of Maggie's story, which thoughtfully explores her complicated relationships with her boyfriend and take-no-prisoners mother." - (Publisher's Weekly Starred Review)“Maggie's profanity-laced, snarky, deeply loving, yet antagonisticrelationship with her mother is delightful.” (– Kirkus Starred Review)“Hilarious and twisted, this is one bad-ass jump-kick of a book. Moveover Buffy, because monster hunter Maggie Cunningham is in town.” (-Chuck Wendig, author of the Miriam Black series)“Piercing and brutally funny—I wish I’d had Darrows to read when I was ateen.” (– Lilith Saintcrow, author of the Dante Valentine series)“Eva Darrow's THE AWESOME absolutely lives up to its name.” (- James A. Moore author of the Seven Forges series)“The best thing I can say is I wish I had this book when I was ateenager… THE AWESOME delivers exactly what the title promises. Buy it now.” (– YA Asylum)“THE AWESOME is wickedly smart and horrific but hilarious… You all aregoing to LOVE this book. Seriously!” (– Fangirlish)
About the Author Eva Darrows is a thirty-something word nerd doing her word nerd thing in scenic southeastern Massachusetts. Armed with a basset hound army and too many cups of coffee, she slants toward stories that will tickle the funny bone. Her alter ego, Hillary Monahan, has been known to make creepy crawly words scuttle across the page, and the authoress is quite content vacillating wildly between giggling profanity and terrifying awfulness.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Hilarious, monster-hunting fun! By ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... I had so much fun reading this. Is it high brow? *snort* Did I laugh out loud frequently and read excerpts to my husband? So many times.Warning: Beware if you can't stand books with some crudeness to them.Maggie is from a family that hunts the "bad" monsters that get out of line - ghosts, brownies, vampires, werewolves, and even leprechauns. This is a world that begrudgingly acknowledges these monsters and those that keep them in line. Her mom is training her to be a hunter as an apprenticeship. "I would have asked more questions, but the ghost chose that moment to rush us to get to Ronald. It was the first time Id ever been run through, and let me tell you, you never forget having that particular cherry popped. It's like someone shoving a snow cone down your throat and a popsicle up your butt at the same time. It's hideous, the most invasive thing you can experience this side of the grave. It didn't help that freezing cold ghost goop smeared me from head to toe. My hair was plastered to my scalp, my clothes hung heavy thanks to lumpy black jelly. "Holy s---! Gross!" "Maggie!" my mother snapped. "Holy crap! Gross!" "Better."She admits she is normal, nothing like most main characters in books. She is a little awkward, has a "normal" body, and has giggle inducing inner dialogue and snark. I love that Maggie isn't perfect and that the guy thinks she's amazing.She and her mother have more of a sister-like relationship. Her mother is pretty much the opposite of every mother stereotype out there, but it works for them. "Around grade school a few of the boys decided it'd be cute to call me Margaret C----------. Mom says she knew I was destined for hunting greatness when I beat them up at recess, all the while screaming, "Do you want some more?"This book was just so fun to read. I really needed a book like this that made me laugh so much. I'm looking forward to more from author Eva Darrows!Please note that my quotes are from an advanced reader copy and may not match the final book.Thank you Rebellion/Ravenstone Publishing and Netgalley for a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. OMG So Very Awesome By Elizabeth Poole This book is amazing. I tried really hard to pace myself, so I could make it last longer, but I ended up reading it all in one sitting anyway because I could Not. Put. It. Down.First, the voice. Most of the time either the narrator's voice is either nonexistent, or so over the top that it knocks you out of the story. Darrows does an amazing job of blending the two. The story moves along, it's not like someone is just talking at us, but it's all flavored with her special brand of snark that had me laughing out loud. Many times.Maggie's character was refreshing. She's self confident without being unrealistic, but there were moments of self doubt that made me want to hug her if she wouldn't have stabbed me for it. I also love how the focus of the book is more about Maggie and her relationship with her mother instead of focusing on the romance aspect at the expense of everything else. Of course, there are enough really sweet romance bits to satisfy my need for mushy bits.The other characters were all very well thought out. Everyone, from the flunkies, to the antagonist, to the supporting characters, were their own people with their own stories rather than wallpaper for Maggie's story.I also enjoyed the setting. I read a lot of urban fantasy so I'm familiar with how "monster hunters" as a genre usually function. This was a cool bit of realism, where Maggie wears ratty jeans and t shirts rather than leather because her clothes are always getting messed up. There were enough cool details about how magic works, how being a professional hunter works, along with supernatural creatures that I felt like I was in Maggie's world and it wasn't just window dressing for the plot.Despite what you might think from the description, this book wasn't one big sex experience after another. Maggie tries to go for The Sex early on with...uhh...special results. Rather than this book just being about Maggie trying to have sex and succeeding toward the end of the book like I initially assumed, there's a lot of other stuff going on like Maggie dealing with going on jobs with her mother, complications from a vampire attack, and trying to be a normal teenager.I am desperately hoping for a sequel, but Darrows wraps everything up so that even if there isn't one, no threads are left hanging and making you feel cheated at the end.Some of my favorite quotes:"My panic-stricken brain latched onto that like a wood tick on a labradoodle.""It was like I'd gone full-throttle rabid raccoon. All I needed was to eat some garbage before a cop shot me and put me out of my misery."
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Sorry, but this really was awesome. By Miss Bonnie My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars‘Sure, I was good at a lot of stuff. How many girls my age could kill a dude with her bare hands in under fourteen seconds? That’s a skill, and one that’d get me places in life, but it didn’t help me here. All the combat training in the world couldn’t make being a normal teenager any easier.’Being a teenager is hard. Being a teenager is even more difficult when your only interaction with that age group is via the television. Seventeen year old Maggie has been home-schooled by her single mother who also happens to be a monster hunter (think Van Helsing in the modern age.) Maggie has been trained since she was young to do the job as well and is completely content with the cards that life has dealt her with one small issue: becoming a full-fledged, licensed monster hunter requires her to lose her virginity. Easier said than done.Okay, not to be totally lame, but this really was awesome. And extremely hilarious. Not only was Maggie fantastically snarky, and sure oftentimes undignified and more than a bit crass, but she was such an amazingly confident character that you cannot help but love her. She’s realistically awkward when it comes to her “first time” but honestly the best thing about it is how awesome the topic of virginity was handled. (Yes, I know, I’ve already said awesome twice. It’s FITTING though.) It’s all displayed in such a non-shaming way and I loved the comfortableness between Maggie and her mother in how the topic broached. There wasn’t any awkwardness and her mother was straight up and honest with her about using protection and about being confident and comfortable with her body. While the summary implies that the sole focus of the story is Maggie losing her virginity, it’s actually so much more and bottom line, the relationship between Maggie and her mother is the very best.“You’ll go on that date tomorrow, and before you get all pissy-pants over the suggestion, listen to me, Margaret Jane. […] I tell you that because life goes on despite our jobs. It’s too short not to have fun while we can. Sitting at home with guns and silver expecting the worst is no way to live. Trust me on that. I know.”The relationship/friendship between Maggie and her mom reminded me a lot of my relationship with my mom, except alas, we don’t go out hunting vampires and other night beasties together. My mom was also one of those awesome women that didn’t tread lightly around the topic of sex and seeing how vastly different other parents handle that subject makes me forever thankful to her for that. It’s a natural thing that shouldn’t have a taboo placed around it. It’s something I feel should be openly discussed because having someone to answer those difficult questions will only lead to smart decisions in the future. Seeing the topic of sex addressed in that way and a parental relationship like that is rare in fiction, but shouldn’t be so.The Awesome takes Maggie on a hilariously snarky, undead adventure that will leave you eager for more. While satisfying enough as a stand-alone, this still has definite room to grow, and I definitely want more.
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