Tomboy

By: Suzana Thompson

Narrated by: Sarah Sampino

Cameron is just like one of the guys to everyone except Jake, her brother's best friend. When she discovers him using her room to hook up with a girl, the sparks fly between them.

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Wonderful YA Story

This is the first story I have listened written by this author . The story was interesting and very engaging. It’s such a sweet YA story of growing up and realizing yourself and what life has stored for you. I loved both Cam’s and Jake’s characters. Sarah Thompson has done a phenomenal job with narration and kept me totally hooked. She captured all the emotions and angst to the T . Definitely an enjoyable listening experience.

Great Read

Tomboy was a great quick read by Suzana Thompson. Cameron has always been a tomboy and has been seen as one of the guys. That is to everyone except her brother's best friend, Jake. One day Cam finds him in her room trying to hook up with a girl. There chemistry sparks and they see what happens. This was a great read, I loved reading Cam and Jake's story. I can't wait to read more by Suzana Thompson.

It wasn’t bad.

I will start off by saying that I received this audiobook for free in exchange for my honest review.

I like the author, she’s great at telling a story. After listening to Fake Boyfriend, I was excited to immediately dive into this one. It wasn’t as good as Fake Boyfriend, but it wasn’t bad.

What I liked:

Cam... most of the time.
Jake... but ONLY towards the end of the book, explanation coming.
The story... but not all of the events in it.

I didn’t like the narrator. I think her voice was very.... nasally? She wasn’t pleasant to listen to. When she read as Jake, she mostly spoke in a flat and emotionless tone and didn’t really give him a personality which I think made it so much harder to like him after... hold on a second-

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

After Cam caught Jake in her bed screwing another girl. Yes, I get they weren’t dating. Yes, I get she didn’t even realize how she felt about him just yet. But that was so disgusting! It’s one thing to let your friend borrow your bed for a hookup with your permission, it’s another for them to go behind your back and do that without your knowledge in YOUR bed. That was so gross and made him be pictured immediately as one of those nasty pervy jocks from movies. It was tough as a reader/listener to get that idea of him out of my head as the story progressed. It made even harder to believe he had been in love with her for years, considering if he even liked her the least bit he wouldn’t have been in her bed of all places with another girl.

I liked Cam, but I did hate how oblivious she was for most of the book because with all the pieces of backstory we got, there is no way the girls that dumb that she didn’t know he liked her. I also hated how she had her first kiss, and then her second, & was suddenly ready to lose her virginity just to see if she could STOP liking the guy.

I did like that she was the one pressuring Jake for sex though. I’m glad the author did that! It’s always the man you see in stories being the one pressuring, it was nice for a change since woman can be guilty of this too.

I feel like this story kind of dragged on after a certain point. Don’t get me wrong, I liked it. BUT I feel like it should have stopped on that football field when she told him he was her boyfriend now. His reaction was perfect & I thought the scene was magic.

Would I recommend it? Yes.

Sweet young romance

Refreshing and wholesome coming of age story that l found myself chuckling at. Nothing like a feisty girl with loads of self confidence to manage a group of feisty teenage boys. Well written and about 5 hours long. Narration by Sarak Sampino was just right and easy to distinguish the characters apart.

Sweet book

Enjoyable book of a young girl growing up and finding her first love and hoping it will become a forever love. More of a YA type feel and had an idea of how things would turn out but enjoyed listening and a sweet story of meant to be!