Summary
Guy Boucher, an Acadian teenager from Cape Breton, kind of likes this girl, Corrine Fortune. They danced together a couple times at one of those school dances or something. I wouldn't say he's in love with her or anything like that, he just kind of likes her. She seems to like him too. But then she totally, coldly, dumps him for this guy named Brian. What's up with that? And then, before Guy even knows what's going on, everyone in town is out to get him. He doesn't even know what he's done.
What I liked
It was well written, very funny, interesting, and easy to read. The characters were mostly vivid, except for two or three that I really didn't get. And it's a little philosophical, asking questions about the meaning of life without going too deep or being preachy.
What I didn't like
It was weird. It painted a kind of depressing picture of Cape Breton, making it seem like an endless cycle of redneckery, But it wasn't nowhere near as bad as Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees.
Conclusion
The hilariousness and the vivid characters totally make up for all the depressingness. It's really good. 4/5 hockey playing redneck Acadians.
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