Save Steve

Name: Save Steve
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jenni Hendriks
ISBN: 9780063033047

Author: Jenni Hendriks, Ted Caplan

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/01/2020

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

From JenniHendriks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant—now a movie streamingon HBO Max, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira—comes a twist on the cancer love story that’s darkhumor mixed with quirky fun. Think DirtyRotten Scoundrels meets TheFault in Our Stars.Named a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee!""Thisbook is packed with humor. Every character is well developed and has theircomplexities.” —School Library JournalSteve Stevenson is ajerk. That might not be a cool thing to say about someone with cancer, but it’strue. Yeah, he throws legendary parties and is the most popular guy in school,but he also loves humiliating pranks and Cardi B, and he doesn’t recycle. Worst ofall, he’s dating Kaia—the girl of nice guy Cam’s dreams.But when a desperateKaia asks Cam to help her raise money to pay for Steve’s experimentaltreatment, Cam offers to organize the biggest, most viral fundraisingcampaign. Maybe then Kaia will finally see Cam as the perfect,thoughtful, altruistic, good guy for her.But Steve’s no fool. He’s totally onto Cam’s plan. And to stop him from stealing his girlfriend, he’s going to dowhatever it takes to make Cam’s life as miserable as his own.From Jenni Hendriksand Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant, comes a quirky, funny storyabout living up to other people’s expectations and what it really meansto do the right thing.

About Jenni Hendriks

Jenni Hendriks’s mom often complained she was “a real smart**s,” so she decided to make a career out of it. She moved to Hollywood and worked her way from coffee-fetcher to writer for the television series How I Met Your Mother. She is also a cartoonist whose feminist-inspired works have been published in Ms. magazine. A film school graduate, she knows how to rack focus and wrangle a cable and can tell you what a best boy does.

About Ted Caplan

Ted Caplan has been working in the film industry for over twenty years as a writer, sound designer, and music editor. He has helped craft the soundtracks to many high-profile projects, such as The Maze Runner, Logan, both Deadpool films, and The Hate U Give. He is also the screenwriter of Love Sonia, a feature film about international sex trafficking from the producers of Life of Pi and Slumdog Millionaire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha (WLABB)

Cam had been pining away for Kaia, and he finally thought the time was right to make his move. Little did he know that she already had a boyfriend, and even worse, that boyfriend was Steve, Oh, and even worse than that, Steve had cancer. In an attempt to impress Kaia (and win her heart), Cam offered......more

Goodreads review by kim

“Today was the day I would finally ask Kaia Gonzalez out.” I loved Unpregnant so I figured that I’d try this one. It’s not as funny since that book made me cry laughing but it has some hilarious and memorable moments. Steve and Cam’s banter during all the fundraiser challenges was extremely enterta......more

Goodreads review by Samantha

Thank you to Net Galley for allowing me to review an early copy of Save Steve by Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan before it's September 1st release date! FULL REVIEW HERE This book was SO fun and full of antics, making me love every second of it! First off, I loved how Steve loved Cardi B and she was in......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight After reading this author duo's lovely debut, Unpregnant, last year, I added this book to my TBR basically immediately. And it had the same humor mixed with important lessons and......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

This had its moments and it’s a very readable story. But this is set up wrong. With Steve being a mythical teenage stereotype set up as the foil for Cam being some weird male subdivision of the manic pixie dream girl stereotype. This should have been set up as friends who had fallen out who were bot......more