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Oct 03, 2013JCLChrisK rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
In high school, the line between rival and friend can be very slim. Sometimes there is no line--your rivals are the closest things you have to friends and your feelings about them are a confusing mix of hostility, empathy, and understanding. ----- Charlie spends this story trying to be more than a pawn in the machinations of his rival-friends. Proximity and transportation needs throw him together with his neighbor Nate even though Charlie is the laid-back captain of the basketball team and Nate is the hot-tempered president of the robotics club. Charlie dates Holly because he's supposed to since she's head cheerleader. Except Holly and Nate are competing for funding for their respective activities, so first Holly breaks up with Charlie via text due to his association with Nate then enters him in the campaign for student body president against Nate to gain control of the funds. Things escalate from there. ----- Add to that triangle the other cheerleaders, robotics club members, and basketball players, plus Charlie's resentment at his mostly absent parents, and it makes for an all too explosive mix of ambiguous rivalry-friendship relationships.