What a Girl Wants

Pocket Hole #1

by C.K. Edwards, Alex J. Bell, Chris E. Weston

Kristin Kakes probably solved the meaning of life a year ago - in ninth grade honors math. Second period. She's an all-A's, all-achievement, goal-driven dynamo too smart and too good for high school.

Pocket holes exist for people like Kristin. They take you to a place where getting what you need is the name of the game.

Today, Kristin will run into Tommy Amsterdam. Tommy has a pocket hole.

And he's got time on his hands.

Genres: Young Adult

120 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2013

Reviews

[Bethany]

This seems to be for the book Pocket Hole, this is about the comic book/ graphic novel, whatever you want to call it. I couldn't seem to find that though, so here goes!
I really enjoyed Pocket Hole, it had a great intriguing idea, the art was really fun (loved the coloring), and there were some really fun bizarre characters.
The pacing is kinda fast, it just jumps in without explaining, well, anything really. It works for the most part, you, like the main character are just jumping into this world unprepared without any idea what's going on. It works really well for the other character Tommy, he's really cool and mysterious. But I wish we could know a bit more about what's going on with the main character, because she seems to be taking this jumping into another world thing reallly well.
Anyways, an entertaining read with some amazing visuals and some good jokes. I'm really looking forward to reading the book and seeing what that's like, also seeing how it ends would be nice lol.

[Elizabeth Drysdale]

I received this book for free as part of a goodreads giveaway.
It took me a little bit to get into this story, but I was glad that I kept reading. The story is light, and feels almost like a novella or short story, with the entire book only encompassing a few hours. However, it is an experience similar to Alice in Wonderland, where the reader is left wondering just what will happen next. I do with that the story had continued on a little bit more, I would have enjoyed learning more about what happened after coming out of the pocket hole. I was left with so many questions that I felt like more story would have easily been able to clear up. Like, what happened when Tommy lost? and what will happen between Kristin and Tommy now? will Kristin change some of her stiff behavior? Perhaps there will be a sequel or something that will fill me in on these holes that I’m struggling with.

[Alysha]

This book is filled with quirky adventure and I enjoyed every moment of it! I was smiling or laughing at least twice per page as I went. The entire book I was thinking: Scott Pilgrim meets Adventure Time and it was awesome. It is fast paced, engaging, and the character development was wonderful, especially for such a short work. I really hope there will me more books to come because I can't stand not knowing more about Kristin and Tommy, as well as the weird Pocket Hole world. I also loved the graphic novel that C.K. Edwards and A.J. Bell created together, which depicts the first half of this book, I think it is the perfect story to be put into graphic novel form.

[Garrett]

Interesting premise and unique characters.

This was a quick read.