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    The Boyfriend App
    The Boyfriend App
    The Boyfriend App
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    The Boyfriend App

    Written by Katie Sise

    Narrated by Arielle DeLisle

    3.5/5

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    For fans of smart romantic comedies, this is a clever Cinderella story with a tech twist.

    When Public Corporation, a giant tech company, announces a contest for the best app developed by a high school student—with $200,000 in prize money—computer whiz Audrey McCarthy is all in. Audrey's been searching for her one ticket out of town ever since her dad died and her best friend, perfect and popular Blake Dawkins, turned into her worst nightmare—and this scholarship may be it.

    Audrey comes up with an idea so simple, yet so brilliant, she can't believe it hasn't been done before: the Boyfriend App. With a simple touch of the screen, romance blooms among the unlikeliest couples at school—and people start to take notice. But it's not quite enough.

    To beat out the competition, Audrey will have to dig deeper—right into a scandal that would rock Public to its core. Launched into unexpected fame and passionately kissed by the hottest guys in school, Audrey finds that her invention has thrown her life into complete chaos . . . but can it bring her true love?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 30, 2013
    ISBN9780062285027
    Author

    Katie Sise

    Katie Sise is an author, jewelry designer, and television host. Lucky magazine has called her a ""Designer to Watch,"" and her company has appeared in most major fashion magazines, including Vogue, W, Elle, Self, and many more. Katie is the author of The Academy, The Pretty App, The Boyfriend App and Creative Girl: The Ultimate Guide for Turning Talent and Creativity into a Real Career.

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    • 4/5
      Quick & Dirty: A charming contemporary romance that I really enjoyed. It is filled with adorable romance, fun characters, and lots of drama!Opening Sentence: It was lunchtime in the social battleground known as Harrison’s upperclassman cafeteria, and I was staring at Aidan Bailey.The Review:Audrey McCarthy is a senior at Harrison high school. She was once very popular and confident, but that all changed when her father was killed in a terrible accident. After the accident she became awkward and all of her so-called friends abandoned her for better prospects. Now her once best friend, Blake is the “Queen B” at school and she isn’t a very nice person, especially with how she treats Audrey. Audrey has managed to make a new group of friends with the smart kids, but she can’t wait to start her life over in college. The only problem is that college is very expensive and paying for it is going to be a problem. Then an answer comes in the form of a competition to create an app.Public Corporation is a huge company that sells all sorts of tech savvy things like phones, computers and things like that. They have decided to hold a competition where they will give $200,000 to the one person that comes up with the most popular app. Audrey has major computer skills so creating the app is no problem, but coming up with a unique idea is not as easy. Then all of the sudden it hits her, she should create a boyfriend app. She puts together a complex survey that will match you with someone you are compatible with. At first the app does amazing, but the competition is very competitive and Audrey will have to do more if she wants to win!Audrey was a likeable character that was easy to connect with. Her tragic past has shaped her into a person she doesn’t want to be and she feels the only way to change is to get away. She planned to wait until college to break out of her shell, but the competition forces her to do it earlier. I loved watching her grow into a stronger person. She still struggles with many things, but at least she is tiring to do better. In many ways I can relate to Audrey because I was also awkward in high school. I wasn’t really made of fun of like Audrey is, but I felt out of place and lonely at times. I imagine that most high school girls have felt like this at one point or another so it is something that makes Audrey an easy character to understand. There were a few times that her voice got on my nerves because she would start to pity herself, but for the most part I really loved her character.If you have read many of my reviews you will know that the boys tend to be my favorite part of a story and Aidan was no exception to this. He is this super shy guy that is very intelligent, but he is also really good looking. He tends to be awkward around people he doesn’t know, and that has made him kind of an outcast at Harrison High. His relationship with Audrey is so sweet and I loved watching them try to figure things out. It’s pretty obvious that they like each other, but neither one of them want to ruin their friendship so they haven’t ever done anything about it. I have always been a sucker for best friend romances and theirs was done really well. Aidan is a great book boyfriend and he was very easy to swoon over!The Boyfriend App was an adorable and unique contemporary romance that totally took me by surprise. This book has actually been sitting on my shelf for quite a while now, but after reading the synopsis for the first time I just didn’t really want to pick it up. But I was feeling in the mood for a contemporary read and I saw this one and thought I would give it a try. I am so glad that I did, it was way better then I was expecting. There were a few things that bugged me, but overall this was an extremely entertaining story. I loved the whole nerdy atmosphere that Sise created with the characters; it made this go from an average contemporary to something unique. The romance was so cute and really well done. The plot was slightly predictable, but still interesting enough to keep me hooked. But there were a few flaws, mostly in the villain of the story. I just thought that the whole mean girl thing was overdone and it started to annoy me. The only other thing that I would have liked was to maybe have had just a tad bit more romantic moments. I loved the ones that were in the book, but I would have liked to have seen just a few more. Even though it had a few flaws I thought that this was a great read and I would highly recommend it to anyone that is looking for a fun, cute contemporary romance!Notable Scene:And then I had it. I knew what the simple, sweet idea was. I knew what my MIT-winning app would be. Everyone in the world would want it. It would make my mom and me millionaires. I’d be on talk shows with Mark Zuckerberg. I’d have the universe in the palm of my hand.Everything that went wrong would be right again.Introducing: the Boyfriend App.Get the app. Get the guy. It would work—even for me. It had to.FTC Advisory: HarperTeen provided me with a copy of The Boyfriend App. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
    • 1/5
      This book started off okay. It started off cute, and sweet and funny, so I decided to keep reading. Audrey is one of those geeky girl characters that used to be cool, now no one like her, except her few friends. Her dad died and ever since then, and she quit being friends with her best friend because of something that never really happened. Then, there is a contest put on buy Public (an electronic company that's a complete copy of apple) to create an app. Audrey decided to make an app for getting boyfriends. After that, there is a ton of drama with boys, and the company Public.This is where the book went downhill. The story plot was actually pretty good, but it was written very cornily, and it made it hard to take the characters seriously. It was just so predictable that it wasn't worth reading. Also, right before I read this book, I had read Paper Towns by John Green, who writes so well, that it wasn't even fair to compare The Boyfriend App to his books. Just like most books, this one has the typical geek girl, the typical mean girl, the typical amazing best friend, and the most typical guy. There were no characters that I was attached to at any point in the story.So, if you are used to reading John Green or Sarah Dessen like I am, I don't recommend this book for you.
    • 5/5
      It has been quite some time since I have read a funny, smart, romantic, and thrilling contemporary ya book. It's hard to find all four of those in one binding, but The Boyfriend App delivers!

      Audrey is really cool and I'd love to spend a day with her and her friends (they're kinda like my friends, except with the coding and what not).

      The story line is a first for me. An app building contest for an overrated phone cooperation (ahem, Apple). So. Freaking. Awesome. Honestly, it's an app that I wouldn't mind giving a shot actually (for Android, please!)

      I loved that Audrey is smart as hell and didn't underplay that for anyone. Aidan is so sweet! Lindsey reminded me of the closeness that my cousin and I share. Nigit and Mindy are GREAT supporting characters.

      Sise knows how to surprise and I was down for the ride the entire way. I was laughing, shocked, and at one point, crying.

      I really don't have a single thing to complain about.
    • 4/5
      The Boyfriend App is a quick, enjoyable read. I had a little trouble getting into it because the beginning of the book had one of my top ten hated YA book cliches, but once we moved past the first few chapters, the book had more than recovered.Let’s start with where I had problems with this book: mean girls. Mean, popular girls. The kind that are so mean, I have trouble believing they would ever actually exist. I also really hate when people are supposed to be mean just because they’re popular and the entire popular crowd in this novel was just heinous.But then, the book starts to pay way less attention to the under-developed, over-cliched cool kids and focuses on Audrey’s quest to build The Boyfriend App and it turns into something really special. I actually work in the technology field, so it was really fun to see coding and programing featured so prominently in a book. I loved Audrey’s determination and ambition. Her quest to build this app and the reasons that motivated her made her such a great character and it made me love the story.Aside from Audrey’s brilliance, though, The Boyfriend App also boasts a fantastic team of supporting characters. A fashion-blogging cousin who has a very successful future in both fashion and PR, two brilliant and cute fellow programers, and a supportive best friend. There were multiple really sweet love stories throughout the novel, and even a few crushing ones. The sense of friendship and family also added a lot to the story and makes the reader feel more connected to the characters.Even though The Boyfriend App had a rocky start, it has a brilliant plot and an excellent cast of characters. Exciting and fast-paced, readers will fall in love with both Audrey and her friends - especially the brains and ambition they add to the story.
    • 2/5
      I read this book at the beginning of the month, and considering I can barely remember the premise, I can't say I would recommend it.
    • 4/5
      A very interesting and very exciting story, I found myself intrigued with this plot. The plot of the book, a girl who creates an app that can match you to the perfect guy with miles of you. The app ask you questions on what you like in a guy and them BAM, a match. I like how the idea of the app came along. A girl struggling with an idea and then she has it. Not to mention all the research that she does on the app. The author goes as far to intertwining her past to her app now. I think the connections it had to her father as well as certain bullies in her life made sense in the end. The love interest in the book is awesome. I loved how even though she wanted an app to find the perfect boyfriend, the perfect guy was in front of her the entire time. I adored the emotions that flow in the book, settling in the reader for quite an ride. I think the fight with her feelings for the guy along with settle past wrongs to right, gives the reader the right amount of charm .An excellent story the captures a past and a future, The Boyfriend App is great. The interesting idea of finding love at the touch of app is just itching at your fingers. Fantastic and witty, The Boyfriend App is wonderful!
    • 3/5
      The Boyfriend App was mostly what I expected it to be--cute and quick. I wasn't expecting the almost sci-fi element to it though, nor the twist with Public, a manufacturer of phones and ipod type things as well as social networking for teens leader in this book. I really enjoyed Audrey and she is the reason I suspended belief a bit with some of the capabilities of technology. She is nerdy and smart, she is the middle of the road almost invisible girl in school, and although I wasn't quite the computer genius like she is, I related with her a lot. She is really into coding and some of that went over my head, but it never made me disconnect from the story. It was very believable in that she learned the script and such from her dad, and that is her hobby. I also really enjoyed her group of "trog" friends in this book--Nigit, Mindy and especially Aiden. I liked their connection but I was right there wondering when and if there was something romantic there. Audrey's friendship with her cousin Lindsay also added a lot to this story. They seem like unlikely allies and close friends because Lindsay is hardcore into fashion, but still they are there for each other, and support each other no matter what. The first usage of the app was more what I was expecting. Especially its first happy couple. But the second version is what had me questioning the story. I mean, it is an interesting twist, but I just wasn't expecting the story to go in the direction it did. And I think, no I know that Audrey really didn't think about what she was setting in motion. Okay, so the rivalry between Blake her ex bff and Audrey... Blake seemed to be the definition of a mean girl, but I could always tell she was just a hurt and jealous girl. But that can make some people act out and try to bully. Bottom Line: Quick read! Some of the story just didn't click with me, but I liked the main character and the spark between her and Aiden.
    • 2/5
      Started out cute, but then got kind of ridiculous. The play on Apple products kind of bugged me. Overall, 1.5 stars.
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars

      This was a cute, fun read. I loved Aiden and even enjoyed our MC, Audrey. It was a unique idea executed well.

      Ms. Sise did an excellent job of fleshing out all the characters and accurately portraying high school life. I hated a whole lot of the secondary characters in this (cough Blake cough), so kudos for making them take a life of their own.

      I will say that this became really far-fetched at a certain point--just completely over the top. And there were a lo-hooooot of tech terms in here. So much so, that I probably skimmed a good 20% of the book.

      However, for the most part, this was a cute, refreshing, enjoyable read. I'm excited to see what else Sise has in store for us.
    • 5/5
      Cannot contain my smile where it comes to this book. It was geeky, funny, cute, teen-swoon-inducing and all around a fun read.
      Audrey is a senior in high school, a coder/programmer and a single child who's lost her father in a work accident. Her best friend turned on her and she became the computer nerd with a close and incredibly small group of friends.
      Aiden is in her computer class and is secretly crazy about her.
      A big computer company is holding an app designing contest and the grand prize is a full scholarship to the winner's desired college.
      And that's when things are going out of hand, and if I add another word I'll ruin everything.
      Suffice it to say that if you are even miniscule-y part geek and enjoys YA fiction, this is a great book to add to your to-read shelf. The top of the shelf.

      I'm looking forward to more from Katie Sise.
    • 4/5
      So, I think I’m going to stop starting my reviews of HarperTeen books by telling you what made me want to read them in the first place because, let’s face it, it’s almost always the same. Suffice it to say that if I’m reviewing a HarperTeen book, I probably heard about it during Epic Reads’ Tea Time and added it to my ever growing TBR list!

      I will admit that I was a little nervous going into The Boyfriend App. I can’t even remember what it was, but something that I heard about it made me so excited and impatient to read it. So, I was super excited when I won a copy in a giveaway. But when it actually came time to sit down and read it, I was really nervous that it wouldn’t live up to my excitement level.

      And to be honest, in the beginning, it didn’t. Audrey is a bit of a geek who used to be popular, and her now popular ex-best friend is a mean girl to the extreme. The Boyfriend App starts off with Blake (the mean girl) stealing Audrey’s lucky rabbit foot and throwing it in the trash (the rabbit foot has sentimental value to Audrey, which Blake knows about). After getting in a fight, Audrey is sent to the counselor’s office and learning about Public’s (which strongly resembled Apple to me) competition to create a new app. Audrey immediately knows that she has to enter, as winning the scholarship is the only way she can afford to go to college.

      At this point, I felt like the story slowed down a bit as we see her actually creating the app, which isn’t very exciting. However, it turns out that there is much more to the story than the description implies. At about the halfway point, we’re introduced to a big surprise that I wasn’t expecting, and it shapes a lot of the rest of the book, which I found to be really interesting! Honestly, I was so excited to see this happen because otherwise, The Boyfriend App would have been kind of boring. There’s a bit of mystery and some really awesome moments that happen toward the end.

      The characters are great, though Blake and her cronies are such mean girls that it made me sick. I really couldn’t stand her. There is one scene in particular that I was just horrified about and made me want to punch her! Audrey’s cousin Lindsay and her friend Aidan are really great to her. Nigit is an odd duck. He starts off as Audrey’s friend, and I guess technically still is throughout the rest of the story, but he gets a bit too competitive with the app competition, which bugged me.

      I loved the conflict resolution at the end of The Boyfriend App, though the actual ending left me wanting a little bit more. Overall, I thought that The Boyfriend App was a really good read and would definitely recommend it to fans of contemporary.

      You can also read this and other reviews on my blog, Mommy's Reading Break