Review: The Hoodie Girl - Yuen Wright

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The Hoodie Girl

Review: The Hoodie Girl - Yuen Wright - August 2021


Now and again, I will come across a book that I have never heard of and the author is also unknown to me and I will give them a go. This weekend, for me that was The Hoodie Girl by Yuen Wright. As readers know, I just absolutely adore the Library App - Libby and find so many awesome reads on there. In The Hoodie Girl we meet Wren who loves to try and be invisible, she is just skating by on life and has this obsession with her Red Hoodie - it's a comfort thing we later learn as a few years ago, Wren was in a car crash with her Dad and sister Emma. Wren was the only survivor and now suffers panic attacks, nightmares, and bad anxiety. At school, she is the heads-down type of girl and has one best friend Mia. That is until one day, she is bumped into by Asher Reed -he is the school's Mr. Popular and captain of the Hockey Team. As the week goes on, Asher needs to know the girl's name and soon he learns that she is none other than his sister's new babysitter.  Soon Asher and Wren will slowly get to know each other and we see some chemistry vibes happening there Mia starts getting to have some fun with his friend Zach and of course we have Brody - he's the "friend" and a genuinely good guy. During one of Asher's games, he ends up badly injured which puts a halt on his chances of being scouted for a hockey scholarship and since Hockey is his life - he starts to get depressed. Meanwhile, working in the background is a growing friendship between Asher and Wren and we see that they are great for each other and might help one another grow and move on with life.  On a personal note, reading this book made me smile as I came across a sentence that talked about how the word nice was never to be used and it was forbidden in creative writing as "Nice is a Boring Word". I had to take a screenshot of this sentence and send it to my old Form 1 / Year 7 (11/12 years) teacher as this was something she always said in English class and it is something that has stuck with me all these years and I too have told others. As this author used along with the same words, It makes you wonder whether her teacher told her this too growing up. Overall, The Hoodie Girl by Yuen Wright was a clean teen romance/coming-of-age read with a tiny bit of edge from panic attacks, tragedy, and one high school party.

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