When it comes to relationships,
Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls
named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.
On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has
ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and
an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun—but no Katherines.
Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine
Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship,
avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and
a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions
in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
In comparison to some of the other books I've read, I don't see this one as a strong contender. It's entertaining (and a little more appropriate than other John Green books) and different from the dystopian trend; however, it's lacking in the substance or page-turning suspense of some of the other books. What I do like about it is that, even though it's fiction, it does have footnotes and detailed references to math - it's kind of a neat link to the growing emphasis on nonfiction. It would also be high interest - students do like John Green books a lot.
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