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Playing Evelyn
Evelyn never wanted to be noticed at school. She dressed in unassuming clothes and kept to herself. Until the day that she slipped up and caught the attention of the school's bad boy.
Gabriel had a bad reputation but after being paired together for a home economics project, Evelyn begins to realize that there's more to him than meets the eye.
Will Evelyn let Gabriel into her double life? Will she ever let him hear her music?
Gabriel had a bad reputation but after being paired together for a home economics project, Evelyn begins to realize that there's more to him than meets the eye.
Will Evelyn let Gabriel into her double life? Will she ever let him hear her music?
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July 6, 2018
Wasn't the best. Wasn't the worst. A solid medium. Maybe lower than medium?
The story, while incredibly cliché, was INCREDIBLY dramatic. The ending was meh.
I won't be reading this again but if you're on wattpad and are bored and want something to read, go for it.
The story, while incredibly cliché, was INCREDIBLY dramatic. The ending was meh.
I won't be reading this again but if you're on wattpad and are bored and want something to read, go for it.
March 11, 2018
I accidentally found that this book had a Goodreads page and I couldn't miss the opportunity to share how much I loved reading this! I've reread it a few time and I just wonder how it didn't get published. The characters were well written and the plot was so emotional. If you like angsty heart melting romances read this despite it being on Wattpad!!
November 16, 2014
there's something about the name gabriel that's so amazing. anyways, so this book i reread and i've been on this rereading spree for a while now and i can't help but comment here. i am a bad commenter on wattpad but i can say a lot here. i remember seeing this on the what's hot list. i had scrolled down the list all the way to the 100s. there were probably only 7 chapters on it and i remember loving it from the start. and i still do. jules is an amazing writer and even though this is the only book of hers i've finished reading, i truly believe in this. this story is amazing. i love how evelyn grew. i love how she opened up to gabriel. i love how we see another side to him and that it truly projects the saying of "don't judge a book by its cover". one can never go wrong with reading this.
September 11, 2012
Fantastic story. Well written, characters were great and believable. Did not want to put the book down. There were a some spelling/grammar errors in the book, but they were fairly minor for an independently published novel. Highly recommend this one. Looking forward to reading more from this author.
October 23, 2012
Wow!!! I think this is the best in wattpad that I've read so far.
I love the plot. The characters are simply amazing. The story-telling is just brilliant. I never wanted to put the "book" down thus having only two hours of sleep on a work day!
I wish a lot of people would/could read this. This story deserves to be published (IMHO). More power to the author and keep up the good work!
I love the plot. The characters are simply amazing. The story-telling is just brilliant. I never wanted to put the "book" down thus having only two hours of sleep on a work day!
I wish a lot of people would/could read this. This story deserves to be published (IMHO). More power to the author and keep up the good work!
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November 2, 2013Is this really not in print at all? It was quite un-put-down-able, which was infuriating since it's on the computer. A print reader like me forced- forced, I say- to read a whole book electronically because it was too good!
That is, its goodness was in the lifelikeness of its characters and places, and in its extraordinary believability as a novel for young adult sensibilities. Big name young adult novels are almost entirely, let's face it, for adults and by adults who have either forgotten what life was truly like before age 20, or whose experience with that age is trapped in a bygone snapshot of time. This book actually brought me back so thoroughly to high school that regions of my memory that I didn't even know had been darkened were flooded with illumination again. It combines the shittiness of true high school reality with adult concepts, experiences, and fantasies in such a way that it could serve as a didactic and motivational tool for young people to more efficiently grow up into who they want to be, like any good literature. It doesn't just capture the truth of the actual adolescent view, but also shows a way out of it and beyond it so that an adolescent reader could evolve by reading it.
For example, Evelyn is an exact splicing of myself as a teenager and myself in my mid-late 20s. In high school, it's really rare to be actually secretly attractive- more likely, a kid is either genuinely hideous like I was, or everyone would immediately see through a cool, attractive kid's act if they were pretending to be a dork. That's what we call a hipster, and they're considered cool and attractive quite intentionally in spite of their weirdo clothes, and for women, that usually ends up being "hot librarian." That part of this story isn't REALLY believable in hindsight, but feels like it while you're reading it, and if I had read it when I was in high school, perhaps I would have become myself a little sooner.
I do have a minor beef with the book, again in hindsight (because while reading, the imminent writing pulls you into the story with no reservations), and that is that the sexy time ended up being all but the whole culmination of the story. Usually stories with happy endings (no pun intended) end on the reaching of a goal that had been held from page 1, and in this case that would suggest that doin' it was the whole goal. Other interesting plot lines were even left somewhat untied in favor of ending on that, such as Evelyn's mother-issues. But again, this does reflect the real interests of high school kids.
Finally, an editorial critique- there is an extremely small amount of typos and redundancies (particularly the overuse of Gabriel's "crooked smile" and hair descriptions, though that is absolutely no different from the work of one of the most lauded fantasy authors around, Terry Goodkind, and used as a reinforcing character visualization technique) for what this book appears to be (I don't know, something some kid typed up on their computer that happens to be damn brilliant), so I just wish that one little editor could look at this, publish it, and then I could own it instead of losing it forever in the cybervoid. Still a little bitter about that.
That is, its goodness was in the lifelikeness of its characters and places, and in its extraordinary believability as a novel for young adult sensibilities. Big name young adult novels are almost entirely, let's face it, for adults and by adults who have either forgotten what life was truly like before age 20, or whose experience with that age is trapped in a bygone snapshot of time. This book actually brought me back so thoroughly to high school that regions of my memory that I didn't even know had been darkened were flooded with illumination again. It combines the shittiness of true high school reality with adult concepts, experiences, and fantasies in such a way that it could serve as a didactic and motivational tool for young people to more efficiently grow up into who they want to be, like any good literature. It doesn't just capture the truth of the actual adolescent view, but also shows a way out of it and beyond it so that an adolescent reader could evolve by reading it.
For example, Evelyn is an exact splicing of myself as a teenager and myself in my mid-late 20s. In high school, it's really rare to be actually secretly attractive- more likely, a kid is either genuinely hideous like I was, or everyone would immediately see through a cool, attractive kid's act if they were pretending to be a dork. That's what we call a hipster, and they're considered cool and attractive quite intentionally in spite of their weirdo clothes, and for women, that usually ends up being "hot librarian." That part of this story isn't REALLY believable in hindsight, but feels like it while you're reading it, and if I had read it when I was in high school, perhaps I would have become myself a little sooner.
I do have a minor beef with the book, again in hindsight (because while reading, the imminent writing pulls you into the story with no reservations), and that is that the sexy time ended up being all but the whole culmination of the story. Usually stories with happy endings (no pun intended) end on the reaching of a goal that had been held from page 1, and in this case that would suggest that doin' it was the whole goal. Other interesting plot lines were even left somewhat untied in favor of ending on that, such as Evelyn's mother-issues. But again, this does reflect the real interests of high school kids.
Finally, an editorial critique- there is an extremely small amount of typos and redundancies (particularly the overuse of Gabriel's "crooked smile" and hair descriptions, though that is absolutely no different from the work of one of the most lauded fantasy authors around, Terry Goodkind, and used as a reinforcing character visualization technique) for what this book appears to be (I don't know, something some kid typed up on their computer that happens to be damn brilliant), so I just wish that one little editor could look at this, publish it, and then I could own it instead of losing it forever in the cybervoid. Still a little bitter about that.
December 31, 2012
Evelyn shields herself from the world behind glasses she doesn't need and clothes that bag around her form. Her father, who was a drug-addicted musician, died when she was young, and her mother never seemed to recover from that. Their relationship truly tears when Evelyn's mother marries George. So Evelyn carries on with her double life; invisible girl by day, rocker chick by night.
Gabriel is broken in his own way. His father is out of the picture, and he was raised the majority of his life by a single mother who has three other boys to juggle.
I love how the two come together! It was a nice, light read - something to be saved for a rainy day.
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Oh, and Evelyn's fondness for Gabriel's motorcycle is so cute :)
Gabriel is broken in his own way. His father is out of the picture, and he was raised the majority of his life by a single mother who has three other boys to juggle.
I love how the two come together! It was a nice, light read - something to be saved for a rainy day.
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Oh, and Evelyn's fondness for Gabriel's motorcycle is so cute :)
June 28, 2016
This was a really sweet read, I liked the characterisation of particular characters but didn't like how everyone seemed to fall in love or couldn't keep there eyes of the main character. Kind of annoying and unrealistic whilst simultaneously promoting how important looks were (they all seemed to like her when she wasn't plain).
I liked the concept but felt like certain chapters dragged on and I felt my self skipping or skim reading major chunks, especially towards the end. A really nice story, just needs some tightening in places :)
I liked the concept but felt like certain chapters dragged on and I felt my self skipping or skim reading major chunks, especially towards the end. A really nice story, just needs some tightening in places :)
October 6, 2013
The only thing that bothered me about this story was the main character. Her reasonings and the way she was just tended to annoy me. Don't get me wrong I did enjoy this story and there were a lot of good elements to it, but I feel like the story had more potential. For a wattpad story it was really good.
March 8, 2016
The author has skill in moving the plot along and with dialogue. However, the two main characters are a little too perfect and the supporting cast is barely more than two-dimensional, and a lot of them caricatures as well. I also wonder to what audience it was meant. It made for an acceptable YA selection until the fairly graphic sex scene. Not a total time-waster, but I won't be re-reading it.
May 30, 2012
3.5*
July 30, 2014
Loved it and hope the author can publish it. It is that good.
August 8, 2012
I looveed it ! Couldn't sleep all night cuz I was reading it! & The spin-off is just as amazing :)
February 11, 2013
I've read this a few months ago via Wattpad app, and I loved it. It reminded me of Easy by Tammara Webber, but I think I liked this better. :)
May 2, 2013
The whole plot of this book's just awesome I couldn't put it down :P I hate her mother she's so douche.
August 2, 2013
Amazing story that makes you want to read it again and again!!! Jule's other book 'Rock Prodigy' is amazing too :)
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January 7, 2014It was an awesome book and I loved it. Not too short not long. Loved the characters and the plot. Not cliche, well for me, its not like the others but similiar. Awesome book
October 5, 2013
Such a great story! It had its' fair share of twists and turns and just the right amount of sweetness.
October 31, 2013
it was quite good and unique..
November 10, 2013
singing one of my hobbies!!!
cute!
cute!
July 21, 2015
Lovely book!!!!
October 9, 2015
It's a bit cliched but how the author put the story across made up for it. It was a good read and I think that in the future, i'll be reading it again.
October 13, 2015
I liked this book on wattpad. It was different than too many books I read which were a little too similar.
March 2, 2020
Our main character is always talking about how "invisible" she is, yet she's apparently universally known as the nerdy girl in the back of the class. She's incredibly conceited and no one calls her out on it. The writing was good and I enjoyed some of the detail, but Evelyn is incredibly bland and full of herself.
May 16, 2013
3.5 stars
August 28, 2013
one of the best books on wattpad omfg
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