TITLE: The Boyfriend App
AUTHOR: Katie Sise
GENRE: YA
WHERE I GOT IT: ebook library borrow
READ FROM: July 6th to July
8th 2013
note: I try my hardest to give a spoiler free reviews but sometimes when talking about a book it is hard to keep it that way. When that is the case I like to warn readers that my review will give things away. This review might have some things that could spoil parts of the story for you. I have indicated where the spoilers start so never fear. :)
ABOUT BLURB: Audrey is a computer smart techie girl who enters a contest to win 200,000 grand and thus be able to attend a school of her choice after she graduates from high school. To do this she developed an app that matches you with the perfect match. It's when she takes the development one step farther, the boyfriend App 2.0, that things started to get out of control.
EXPECTATIONS: I really had no
expectations when I started this. I requested it through my library
on a whim while browsing their website.
CHARACTERS:
The Trogs:
Audrey McCarthy – she was an okay
main character. At least in the first part of the book. I really
began to question her morals during the second half considering she
was messing with peoples brains.
Aiden Bailey – one of Audrey's best
friend and the love interest.... I think. Audrey seemed to go back
and forth between who she was in love with. One moment it's Aiden,
the next it is Xander. I really never warmed up to either of them so
I guess it doesn't really matter.
Nigit Gurung/Mindy Morales/Lindsay -
Audrey's other two best friend, and her cousin Lindsay make up her
small group of friends. Nigit and Mindy really weren't all that
interesting to me at all.
Others:
Blake Dawkins - She is a royal b*tch. I
think she might have been the only character in the book that I felt
anything for. It was all anger and disbelief that someone can be
soooo horrible – especially to adults. I really never saw what
Xander Knight saw in her or really what she saw in him. Other then I
guess claiming him for herself when she saw that Audrey was
interested in him a few years before the story takes place. Some best
friend she really was. Good thing she is Audrey’s ex best friend
now. She is just a horrible,horrible person.
There were other random characters but
they really don't matter. In fact I really found all characters to be
pretty uninteresting.
WHAT I LIKED: There really isn't to
much that I did like about it. The first part of the book might be
the only thing. I mean at least the basic premise of the story was
plausible then. I was at least somewhat enjoying the story. It
definitely wasn't like an all time 5 star book for me but it was
somewhat enjoyable.
WHAT I HATED: I really didn't like how
Audrey explained her cool haxxor skills or her computer smarts. I
don't really know why. It felt really preachy to me and like she was
talking down to you because she figured you probably wouldn't grasp
what she was saying even when she simplified it. That could be
because I already knew and understood what she was talking about.
Once I approached the middle of the
book an event happened that made me lose almost total interest in the
story because it was just so far out there. I mean this event didn't
even make any sense to me at all.
She does some things that I think are
morally questionable and seems to not even care that she was messing
with people's brains, emotions and lives without a second thought.
All to win money so she could go to the college of her choice. It
really bugs me that nobody questioned how and why the App worked.
Even some adults were said to have used it!
WARNING: The section below contains spoilers. If you want to avoid them just pop on down to the final thoughts section.
<spoiler> Okay so she fries her
phone on a battery and then starts to hear a buzzing sound. She
starts to love whoever is around her uncontrollably and it so
happened to be her cousin. If that wasn't weird enough, it also
effects her cousin the same way when she goes close to the phone. We
find out later that the company actually has some sort of secret
technology that sends out a inaudible tone or sets of tones that
brain washes the teenager using the phone to buy more of their
products. As crazy as that is it would make sense that a company
could potentially do that to drive up sales. But then why did Audrey
and Lindsay fall in love with each other instead of feeling this urge
to go buy something else of said company? Maybe I missed something
reading that section but I was like 'what the shit is going on? How
does that make any sense?'
I also find it hard to believe that she
was able to hack into a multi billion dollar company without being
detected. Maybe it could be possible but while I think she is pretty
smart I don't think she is that smart. I would think a huge company
like that is always targeted by hackers. She is also able to hack her
way in in under 5 mins. Oookay with no trouble what so ever.
Also after she hacks into Nigit's
fathers computer she finds evidence of blackmail. Would a head of
company that large really leave a paper trail like that!! It's not
like it was shut up about our sales revenue or something. It's shut
up about this crazy study we did so that we can transmit noises to
make people buy our shit. Yeah I don't think I would be leaving a
paper trail like that.
Then she uses that technology and
creates her app 2.0 and makes it so that if she points her phone at
someone, makes eye contact, presses a button and they drop what they
are doing, fall madly in love with you and then attack them with
kisses. First of all who the hell wants a guy to do that. I'm sorry
but if that happened in real life we would be calling the cops and
accusing them of being a obsessive crazy stalker.
Also Audrey finds nothing wrong with
using people this way to win an app contest so she can go to school.
Yeah I really think your father would approve of that. Also at one
point she says that she actually made the signal stronger then what
the company used. Soooo your messing with peoples brains, using them
as guinea pigs without their consent (I realize that the company was
also doing this but still). Who knows what the long term effects are.
Is is just soooo wrong on so many levels. I really started to hate
her which is sad since she is the main character! Also wouldn't the
company realize what she did? How did everyone in the world that
heard about the app and downloaded it not QUESTION why it worked or
how? I think I would be a little horrified if on the news or twitter
or somewhere I hear that there is an app to make any guy/girl fall
mad shit in love with me. Yeah I really want that. What happens if
the app is turned off or technology is interrupted as it sometimes
is? I mean really! This is after all supposed to be set in this time
frame of our world. GOD she even admits that it would be 'fake' later
on in the book when she was considering using it on Aidan. So then
WHY did you think it was okay AUDREY? Don't you want something REAL?
UGHHH so frustrating!</spoiler>
FINAL THOUGHTS: Okay I need to stop ranting lol. I
really just expected something different then what I got. Like I said
before, the first part was okay and enjoyable but when she developed
the second version that it crossed over into totally unbelievable
fantasy. This just wasn't for me.
RATING: 1 out of 5 stars
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