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From a fresh new voice on the contemporary YA scene, My Life with the Walter Boys centers on the prim, proper, and always perfect Jackie Howard. When her world is turned upside down by tragedy, Jackie must learn to cut loose and be part of a family again.
Jackie does not like surprises. Chaos is the enemy! The best way to get her successful, busy parents to notice her is to be perfect. The perfect look, the perfect grades-the perfect daughter. And then...
Surprise #1: Jackie's family dies in a freak car accident.
Surprise #2: Jackie has to move cross-country to live with the Walters-her new guardians.
Surprise #3: The Walters have twelve sons. (Well, eleven, but Parker acts like a boy anyway)
Now Jackie must trade in her Type A personality and New York City apartment for a Colorado ranch and all the wild Walter boys who come with it. Jackie is surrounded by the enemy-loud, dirty, annoying boys who have no concept of personal space. Okay, several of the oldest guys are flat-out gorgeous. But still annoying. She's not stuck-up or boring-no matter what they say. But proving it is another matter. How can she fit in and move on when she needs to keep her parents' memory alive by living up to the promise of perfect?
Ali Novak wrote My Life with the Walter Boys when she was just 15 years old. First a hit on the online community Wattpad, this debut novel has already been read over 33 million times and is loved by readers around the world.
- Sales Rank: #52131 in Books
- Published on: 2014-03-01
- Released on: 2014-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 5.50" w x 1.00" l, .88 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—When Jackie's parents and sister are killed, Jackie is relocated from her trendy New York City high-rise to the Walter ranch in Colorado. There she meets the 11 boys (and one girl) being raised by the Walter parents. There is no "cheaper by the dozen" charm here, and the norm seems to be wandering around in boxer shorts, making out in bedrooms, jealous fights, and general dysfunction. The sexual tension feels icky; when Jackie arrives, one boy steals her clothes, a video camera is set up, and bets are placed whether she'll come out of the bathroom naked. Jackie and several boys drink to drunkenness, including openly at a family wedding when both parents are present. It's hard to like, or care about, any of the flat, stereotyped characters, including Jackie. Narrator Renée Chambliss tries to differentiate between Cole, Alex, Nathan, Lee, and the rest, but Jackie has no hint of New York City in her voice. Most libraries could pass on this audiobook, but don't write off Novak permanently. This book was written when the author was 15, and with maturity, she may find a subtler, more authentic voice.—Maggie Knapp, Trinity Valley School, Fort Worth, TX
Review
"This title will appeal strongly to boy-obsessed readers who will find the romance, particularly the chemistry between Cole and Jackie, to be quite engrossing and the teen voices credible." - VOYA
About the Author
Ali Novak writes contemporary young adult romance and is a recent graduate of the University of Madison Wisconsin's creative writing program. She wrote her first full length novel, My Life with the Walter Boys, at the age of fifteen. Since posting the story online, it has received more than 33 million reads and is now published by Sourcebooks Fire.
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44 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
Like waking up after a drunken night I think I liked
By Paige
See more of my reviews on The YA Kitten! My copy was an ARC I received from the publisher via NetGalley.
Give me a prompt and I've probably read a fanfic like it. Such things happen when you've been reading fan fiction for about six years. The premise of The Walter Boys is no exception; I've read at least three in which a girl's parents die and she moves into a house full of hotties. Did Novak's novel manage to impress me more than the fics like it? Sadly, no. It's got a compulsive readability about it, but it's often problematic and 98% of those problems go back to one person: Cole Walter.
Jackie is an endearing girl, but not endearing because her parents are dead and she's stuck in this household full of jerkish guys and she's somehow surviving all of this. She's endearing because she's simply too dumb and naive for the real world. I wanted to take her and put her back in her Upper East Side apartment so she could live out the mindless, privileged life she knew. She does occasionally fight back when her new brothers get extraordinarily jerkish, but she's generally a bit of a doormat.
Case in point, her choices in friends. Two of her three new female friends are only her friends solely because she is living with the Walter family. This is painfully clear. Those two girls are so obsessed with her brothers that the girls were 20 minutes from the due time of an art project and had nothing done because the two girls wouldn't shut up about Jackie's brothers and actually do some work. The third girl? She gets a handful of sentences and no development. She's barely Jackie's friend. Anyway, what does Jackie do with these girls who are clearly using her and don't give a damn about her? Oh, stay friends with them and ignore their agenda. GIRL, YOUR SPINE. WHERE IS IT?
Speaking of the female friendships, this book can't even Bechdel. If it does at some point and I missed it, it just barely Bechdels and that's a pathetically low bar for any book to meet. All girls ever talk to Jackie about are her brothers--specifically Alex and Cole, the two who are into Jackie. Even her best friend from New York? She couldn't care less about how Jackie is adjusting to a new world after her parents' and older sister's deaths uprooted her entirely. She only cares about the guys. WHAT A GREAT FRIEND. It's also a very white book. Straight white people everywhere and not a gay person or person of color in sight!
Then if girls aren't her friends, they're usually positioned as competition if they get any attention at all. Mary Black, ex-girlfriend of both of Jackie's love interests, is the typical mean girl who glares at Jackie from a distance and throws her recent tragedy in her face so Jackie will feel bad. Depth? Nuance? What are those? Not something Mary's cliche character gets!
Mind you, this is all on top of that old, tired trope where all the girls are obsessed with the eligible brothers. Um, no. I went to a sizable high school (~2,000 people) and from the way things are phrased, Jackie's school isn't small either. With 2,000 people in all four grades, no one could find one guy or group of guys to be obsessed with. Not even the ~400 people in my grade could find a single guy or group of guys to be obsessed with! Besides, LESBIANS. ASEXUAL WOMEN. GIRLS WHO AREN'T INTO GUYS. THEY ALL EXIST.
Soooooo many frustrating cliches. Anyway, to get back to some of the good...
College has changed my definition of a binge read into "any book I read and finish within two days, especially if over 300 pages long." That's exactly what this novel was for me. I neglected important schoolwork for it, I needed to finish it so badly! Though my mood ranged from irked to just-short-of-an-implosion mad while reading, My Life With the Walter Boys is extraordinarily, unusually readable. Though Jackie's narrative voice is engaging, there's some X factor deeper in the novel that makes it difficult to put down and leave alone. It actually reminds me of the way I will tolerate many more problematic elements when reading a moderately good fanfic. It's a good thing. (I think.)
But you know where most of those problematic elements were centered? Cole Walter. (He's so bad I have to italicize his name when I type it in full. That kind of guy.)
See, in the most direct terms, Cole is a manipulative little douchebag who spends most of the novel throwing tantrums because Jackie isn't into him. Manipulative like pushing her to go out drinking with him when she's in obvious emotional distress and they're both underage. Manipulative like forcing her to go to a party held by the girl who caused her said emotional distress. Manipulative like implying he's dating Jackie when they meet Cole's brother Alex at the party when Alex is also crushing on Jackie. Manipulative like forcing Jackie to TP a balcony when he has never made anyone do it before and she nearly gets caught doing it.
I could go on and on and oooooooon. At the same time he's doing all this, he's using various other girls who have no choice but to be okay with him being with a couple other girls at once if they want to be with him at all. He's a misogynist who believes some women (like Jackie) deserve respect and others (his girl toys like Erin and Olivia) deserve to be treated like disposable objects. No. All human beings deserve equal respect. He does have good moments where he helps Jackie, but those don't come close to balancing him out.
Her other love interest Alex isn't perfect either. For instance, he likes to play it up around Cole to make his brother jealous. Still, he's a much better choice for Jackie because as she puts it, he feels like home. He is comfortable. Cole makes her feel alive, but Cole is why she does things like go out drinking too. Just because he makes her feel alive doesn't mean he's good for her and it's frustrating she considers Cole at all because he never listens to a word she has to say.
Even more frustrating? Everyone in the book is trying to excuse Cole's behavior. No one is willing to make Cole responsible for his actions and how poorly he treats women! I highlighted so many passages of people trying to justify his behavior that my Nook eventually rebelled and made me have to struggle just to highlight new passages. I can almost understand his brothers defending him, but even Jackie's friend from home tries to when she doesn't even know the guy!
*releases a breath* You have no idea how long I've been needing to have a good rant about Cole. IRL people only understand so much.
Now for more good stuff! It's difficult to remember who is who for the longest time despite an explicit in-book guide to which boy is what age and what his interests are, but we do eventually come to recognize the boys (and one girl, nine-year-old Parker, who has a lot of casual internalized misogyny just like her brothers) without the help of that guide. Her brothers were occasionally so terrible to her that I teared up on her behalf, but when she started building good relationships with them, it was done well. The scene where most of them are playing in the rain? Wonderful. More of that, please!
Though the resolution of the romantic entanglements doesn't 100% please me, it gives me the wiggle room I need to make sure Cole and Jackie never happen. I will ignore any future canon details to make sure they don't happen because he's unhealthy for her. Open endings are the best things ever in situations like this.
So can I say I recommend My Life With the Walter Boys? Actually, yes. Despite its many, many problems and the many, many words it takes to expound upon them, it's a book with a fun, frenetic energy that draws you back in no matter how you feel about it. It's worth reading the first fifty pages of/first three chapters of, at least. By the time you've done either, you'll know if this is a novel you'll be interested in.
One last thought? Thank God this didn't turned out like Dinner With a Vampire, the last book to crawl out of the cesspool that is Wattpad. That novel still scars me.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
In Review: My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
By Kim
I want to get all gushy over this book, but I'm going to try to restrain myself. Did you know the author wrote this book when she was 15 years old? 15?! If you're looking for a young adult novel with an authentic teenage voice, look no further. It doesn't get much better than this.
There was so much to love about this book. The writing was fantastic, and as I said about, authentic. Jackie's inner dialogue was perfect and her interactions with the other characters felt so real. I adored Jackie immediately. I found her easy to connect with. And the Walter boys? Oh. My. God. Talk about a cast of interesting characters. From the standoffish to the swoony and everything in between, they were were absolute perfection. They weren't carbon copies of each other. They each had a unique personality – good or bad – and there was more to all of them than met the eye. Watching Jackie navigate her new life in Colorado, both with and away from the boys, warmed my heart.
The only thing about this book that bothered me was the ending. I wanted more. Of course, at the time I finished, I didn't realize there was a sequel coming, so I was distraught that it ended like it did. But now I can anxiously await that sequel and see where life takes these characters next. I read the first couple pages on Wattpad and I neeeeeeeeed this book, like, now.
My Life With the Walter Boys was neither light and fluffy nor overly deep. It dealt with the hard truth of grieving not only the loss of loved ones, but of the life you once knew, but did it in a way that I never found to be particularly difficult to handle. I definitely felt some emotions and my heart broke for the loss Jackie was dealing with. I laughed and cried. But mostly I smiled. There was just something about these characters that made me happy. I can see why this book got so much attention on Wattpad. It has quickly moved up my list of favorite young adult contemporaries. I can't wait for the sequel.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Abrupt Ending
By Tabby Hensley
I was prepared to give this at least 2, maybe even 3 stars, depending on the ending, but then that non-ending happened. I don't understand authors that do this. So you want to make it a series? That's fine. I'm cool with that. Leave em wanting more but that was just so abrupt. I kept going thinking I was missing pages or something. That there was no way the author would string the reader along the ENTIRE book just to end it that way. Nope.
Aside from that ending, the book was all over the place. There were times I liked it and times when I wanted to throw the Kindle. The setup is ridiculous, with the whole moving in with a friend of the family who happens to have 12 kids, all boys (well 11 and 1 girl who wishes she was a boy). Cole, Isaac, and Alex were the only ones I could keep straight. While I liked the other characters, I kept getting Danny and Nathan mixed up, the little ones were mostly comic relief, Parker and Lee were just too emo for me to deal with, and the others I can't even remember their names.
Jackie was very uptight as a character. I didn't like her with Alex at all. Cole is a complete ass most of the time but I still liked him better with her.
On a lighter note, that one scene with Benny eavesdropping and running around with Jackie's bra on his head reminded me so much of my little brother and a similar incident that I experienced, that I couldn't stop laughing.
So there were brief moments in this where I could see something promising shining through but it was just a case of very poor execution and a horrible ending.
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