Also, it’s nice that Battle and Nic don’t get any real flak for having a same-sex relationship, except for a couple of seemingly-obligatory paragraphs from two annoying guys in Nic’s class. It’s a fun read, and if I dig down in my memory, I realize it captures the feeling of a high-school crush (the kind you don’t quite understand yet) rather well.
Then Battle is scared off, apparently because Nic over-analyzes everything (does she? I didn’t really notice), and all sorts of drama ensues until they finally sit down to talk it out. Needless to say, Nic and Battle end up doing the cute couple thing - for all of two weeks. Kissing is wetter and softer than I with my romance novel education had expected and not quite as exciting except in retrospect.” That was (more or less) one of the first things I observed about kissing, too, and that detail may have been what finally got me engaged in the story. I cracked up for the first time on page 108: “Let’s discuss this matter clinically. The book is peppered with Nic’s “field notes,” which read more like a journal than like anything scientific. And who, of course, immediately captures Nic’s unsuspecting heart. On the first day she makes friends with computer (and fashion) geek Katrina, history nut Isaac (who obviously likes Katrina), music nerd Kevin (who Nic doesn’t like) and Battle, who dances and wants to be a vet. To summarize: Nicola (Nic) Lancaster is spending the summer at an institute for gifted teens, studying archeology.
The first hundred pages of Empress of the World struck me as kind of bland.
Empress of the World, by Sara Ryan (review)
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