Goodreads Synopsis: When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how—scientifically.
The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.
Avery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. She needs to live. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest.
The Expert's (yes, expert's) Opinion: First of all let me say that this was one dayum fine book, and I say that as a passive observer, as someone looking at it from a scientific point of view, not as like, well, ya know, someone who would happen to think Grayson was pretty dayum fine too. Pfft, noooo.
Ah well who am I kidding? I abso-freaking-lutely adored Mr.Tall-Buff-and-Charming!
So Avery has just had her heart broken by Aiden, her best friend of seventeen years, who loves her alright, but not like that. To make matters worse, said
But let's not worry because in comes Grayson- Avery's knight in shining armor... or well "knight-in-not-all-that-many-clothes-because-he-felt-it-was-neccessary-to-workout-shirtless-in-order-to-impress-the-'whooty'-in-the-apartment-downstairs." Well that's quite a mouthful, but you know what I mean.
What's a whooty you say? Ah my child, it's a who, not a what. And I shall let you discover the answer yourself when you read the book... or you could just check Urbandictionary.com.
Anyhoo, back to where I left off (I swear this ADD seems get worse by the momen--oooh shiny!), Grayson is Aiden's elder brother and a living stereotype too. He seems to fit the role of the dumb jock who manages to get all the girls. He's never thought of Avery as anything other than his sister, but that changes on the night Avery finds herself heartbroken and Grayson finds himself comforting her.
A broken heart was bad enough, but to have your best friend and science partner ditch you for his girlfriend? Well doesn't that make things all better...
Despite her overwhelming sadness and disbelief, Avery decides to still participate in the science fair. Her topic? - Her broken heart. Her plan? - To experience the seven stages of grief and then rid herself of the heartache for once and for all. Her partner- A very handsome someone who happens to be failing Physics and needs all the credits he can get! The result? - A recipe for dancing, applied physics, heart ache, flirting, goofy smiles, a broken nose, and a lot of laughter!
*Though I have to admit there were times when I felt slightly annoyed by Avery. I mean I understand her feelings but it just pained me to watch her get hurt over and over again because she refused to see what an idiot Aiden was being.
So would I recommend 'The Avery Shaw Experiment' to you people out there who love romantic comedies? Heck no; I aint sharing Grayson with y'all! You can just run along and find your own hottie who'll join the science club for your sake.
What's that? Oh you're begging me? You really want to meet him huh? Well...fine. But don't say I didn't warn ya. And oh, you might want to keep an eye out for Libby- she's Avery's best gal friend. She's smart, she has spunk, she wears shirts with pictures of cats on them, and she's not afraid to go for what she wants; she's my next favourite character in the book (duh).
So this is how I'll leave you- wondering who can be classified as a 'whooty', wanting to meet Grayson, hoping to comfort Avery, and frequently wanting to shake Aiden...
My Rating: 5 whooping, gold stars!
Have a funtastic time reading!
