Book review: “The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the Geek” is, as the title suggests, a sequel, not that you need to have read the original book before this one although it does feature the same characters.
On his blog Joe writes about his life. This includes his home life with his heavily pregnant mum, whose pregnancy has made her a bit mental, step-dad Jim, step-brother Gav, who is also the school bully and who Joe shares a room with, and mad nan Doris. Then there are his school friends Ad and Harry, Harry who speaks in an old-fashioned way calling people “old chap” and all that as he contemplates life’s problems by sucking his empty pipe. And then there is his girlfriend Natalie who Joe is worried will dump him at every turn.
The main stories running through the book are Joe’s attempts to win over his girlfriend’s dad who is very much his adversary. Then there is the DJ competition in which Joe acts as manager to his friends Harry and Ad and their double act as they take on another adversary, the smug, son of an MP, Seb.
The front cover of this book makes the comparison to the Wimpy Kid series and with Joe getting into plenty of embarrassing situations which escalate you can see the similarities. However there are fewer pictures here than Wimpy Kid, and the material is more suited for teenagers.
I laughed at Joe’s “pain and humiliation” and recommend you do too.
Publication date: 2 April 2015
Amazon UK link: The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the Geek
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