Because of the fact that I cannot watch season 5 until Friday I will soon be turning off my social media to avoid spoilers
Here are my death predictions: Mr. Clarke in first 4, Murray in middle 3 (sacrifices himself), Mike, Jonathan, Ted, and either Lucas or Erica, + new military lady for sure
Hoping: Nancy and Steve do not get back together, Robin has a new girlfriend in the future or Vickie gets much better, Jopper wedding, Max gets to see again
Wishing: Eddie comes back, Dustin marries Suzy, Steve is a great dad with a loving spouse
Steve Stevenson is an asshole. That might not be a cool thing to say about someone with cancer, but it’s true. Yeah, he throws legendary parties and is the most popular guy in school, but he also loves humiliating pranks, Cardi B, and doesn’t recycle. Worst of all, he’s dating Kaia—the girl of nice guy Cam’s dreams.
But when a desperate Kaia asks Cam to help her raise money to pay for Steve’s experimental treatment, Cam offers to organize the biggest, most viral fundraising campaign—SaveSteve.com. Maybe then Kaia will finally see Cam as the perfect, thoughtful, altruistic, good guy for her. But Steve’s no fool. He’s totally on to Cam’s plan. And to stop him from stealing his girlfriend, he’s going to do whatever it takes to make Cam’s life as miserable as his own.
From Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant, comes a quirky, funny story about the pressures of who others expect you to be and what it really means to do the right thing.
Plot:
Cam waited for the perfect moment to ask Kaia out on a date. After a summer night protesting to Save the Wetland, where Kaia and Cam bonded, he knew she was the girl for him. If only the perfect moment would arrive. After seven failed attempts to ask Kaia out, Cam thought one of Steve Stevenson’s famous parties would be the right chance. Yet by that point, it was too late. With a very intoxicated Steve helping Cam on the search for Kaia, making fun of him along the way, it was when they reached Kaia that Cam found out Steve was her boyfriend, and that they have recently gotten together. What is worse is that Steve got diagnosed with cancer, a 94% curable “good cancer”, but now Steve and Kaia have a cancer love story, and nothing could break up that, right? Still trying, Cam uses his power of positive change by helping Kaia create a Save Steve campaign, helping to raise the $20000 needed for Steve’s medical expenses. Knowing Cam is going after his girlfriend, Steve hacks the SaveSteve.com account, and forces Cam to do embarrassing stunts to raise money, basically trying to lower his chances with Kaia. But Kaia is the girls of his dreams, and Cam will do everything to get her, even if that means wearing a diaper to school and rapping to Cardi B.
Thoughts:
Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan wrote this novel about Cam, a true not sarcastically white knight, who tries to do the best in the world. This boy never says anything that could be classified as homophobic or racist, he attends a protest to save the sharks, protect wetlands, ban straws, whose role model is Michelle Obama. Literally the nicest kid you could ever meet, and the boy Kaia should be dating. Yet Hendriks and Caplan wrote him with this rude intention to steal Steve’s girlfriend by fundraising money for Steve. Which is the opposite of what our humanitarian Cam is supposed to do. This entire fundraiser is done for a selfish reason, even if you cannot blame Cam for taking his chance to spend time and form a romantic relationship with Kaia. Kaia, was a similar overachieve, Type A personality student, whom you could see going out with either Steve or Cam. Where Cam and she did share similar personalities and hobbies, it was Steve who showed her how to have fun and someone to make her take a pause in life and watch Netflix for an evening. While writing Kaia, the authors did a good job of keeping Kaia in the middle, showing her ability to swing from being in love with Steve to falling in love with Cam. Steve on the other hand was a totally opposite character, a jock, party boy, who is here to have fun and not care too much that he has cancer. Steve, for the majority of the novel, was living by the saying “here for a good time, not a long time”, and only slightly worried that Cam would successfully steal Kaia away from him. In their own unique ways they are likable characters with their own flaws that they recognize and grow from, thus, showing major character growth from the beginning of the book to the end. With a fast-moving plot, and some very funny twists in there, especially involving Steve’s pranks on Cam, and Cardi B made an appearance, this is definitely an okay novel, and one that can join others on the cancer romance shelf.
