What is Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy about?
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
Half His Age is a highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died.
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'EERIE, UNSETTLING AND BELIEVABLE' GILLIAN FLYNN, AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
'ABSOLUTE DYNAMITE' ELIZABETH DAY
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.
Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn’t? Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.
Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired and to be loved.
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Jennette McCurdy is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died, winner of the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award. The book has been published in more than thirty countries and has sold more than three million copies. McCurdy is creating, writing, executive producing, and showrunning an Apple TV+ series loosely inspired by I’m Glad My Mom Died, starring Jennifer Aniston. Half His Age is her debut novel.
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Half His Age
Written By Jeannette McCurdy
Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews
DANG!!!! Half His Age is sooo incredibly tabooish that Jenette McCurdy will have EVERYONE talking about this book!! Who would have thought sweet little Sam from ICarly had this naughty little bad girl writing side to her?! In my opinion she is gifted in this genre and hope she writes more within it!! I know I would read more books from her like this.
Let’s talk about this incredible sexy and seductive cover that just screams read me!! Whomever thought of this graphic for the cover and the way they placed the title and author name was brilliant! It was perfect for this hook for this read. Not to mention that nail art is incredibly creative and the colors are perfect!
Half His Age was so different from any other book that I have ever read in the past, so addicting, alluring, fast paced, very tabooish graphic scenes that had me hooked and finished it in two sittings. I would have been one but I needed a few hours of sleep in between. Seriously, I didn't want to put it down! I needed to know what was going to happen and how it was going to end.
Half His Age for some females may be relatable if they had a crush on their teacher back in the day. I know I had a crush on my Biology Student Teacher but at 17 that behavior was not even on my radar!!
Jennette could have taken Waldo’s character in so many directions and I often wonder why she didn't go the many routes that she did. Typing that I wonder if she is going to do a sequel as there is so many loose end questions. Now that I will definitely read.
If you read between the lines she does have a few important life lessons that peak through the story!
So, throughout the book I kept wondering why Jennette called the main character Waldo? I knew it was a female character but in my head I kept thinking it was Waldo from where’s Waldo.
