King of the Screwups

It is a book that can be related to easily. Really smooth and easy flowing language which makes you feel really immersive with the book. Definitely worth the read and a great great book which says that all stories do not have to be about great things. Plus it has comedy and a unique writing style. Don't miss!!

A really nice book which provides some valuable lessons! :)

I enjoy reading the book!! I love it!! It was tearful!! :)

I really enjoyed this book and could relate to. It was a good read, although felt as though everything ended very quickly, but besides that it was very good!

this book had a dissapointing ending, for i expected more, from he afte reading Fat Kid Rules the world or ever since i started reading the liberation of Gabriel King

K.L. Going really has a way with memorable teen characters who are outsiders. Troy Billings, 296 pounds and suicidal in Fat Kid Rules the World. Iggy Corso, born addicted to crack and pretty much neglected as he grows up in Saint Iggy. I was not so sure about her most recent creation, Liam Gellers in King of the Screwups.

Liam's mother was a world-famous model and now runs a chi-chi clothing boutique. Liam's father is an extremely successful businessman. Liam himself is Mr. Popularity. He has his mother's fabulous looks and an uncanny fashion sense. His problem is that he always seems to screwup big time, end result being that his father kicks him out of the house. Liam goes to live with his gay uncle Pete, a member of a glam-rock cover band, for his final year of high school.

It took me awhile to care about this rich, straight kid who was trying so hard to be someone he was not in order to please his tyrant of a father. By the middle of the book, I was weeping for Liam. Another winning novel from Going. Grade 9 and up.