Title: The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig
Author: Don Zolidis
Page count: 352
Published: October 2nd, 2018
Publisher: Disney – Hyperion
Genre: Teen / YA
Received: Netgalley
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God)
1994
“You’re going to find somebody so much better than me.”
“What? No, I’m not! Look at me! Are you insane?”
The worst thing that’s ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Craig and Amy should never have gotten together-Craig is a Dungeons and Dragons master with no life skills and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student body president of their high school.
Yet somehow they did until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Seven times to be exact.
Over the course of their senior year, Amy and Craig’s exhilarating, tumultuous relationship is a kaleidoscope of joy and pain as an uncertain future-and adult responsibility-looms on the horizon.
Craig fights for his dream of escaping Janesville and finding his place at a quirky college, while Amy’s quest to uncover her true self sometimes involves being Craig’s girlfriend and sometimes doesn’t.
Seven breakups. Seven makeups. Seven of the highest lows and lowest highs. Told non-sequentially, acclaimed playwright Don Zolidis’s debut novel is a brutally funny, bittersweet taste of the utterly unique and utterly universal experience of first love.
My Thoughts:
This is the first book that I have read by this author and I have to say.. I really enjoyed it. There was also a little something at the beginning of the book before the chapter started an I kind of like that. I feel like some more authors should do that. This book was also set in the 90’s which is amazing. I liked that it was in Craig’s POV because its usually in a female POV, so it was nice to have a male one.
It was weird for me a little bit because the relationship between Amy and Craig felt real. Like you are going on he journey with them. I mean Amy and Craig are just trying to figure themselves out, so there on and of again relationship is relatable.
I really related to Craig’s awkward nerdiness. He’s sarcastic and has a great sense of humor, He is a Dungeons and Dragons fanatic.
Amy is class president and determined to show that nothing is going to hold her back for the things that she wants to do.
The constant breaking up and getting back together was relatable because I remember when I was in school there were kids doing the exact same thing. If not as often as Amy and Craig maybe more.
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