Needless to say, Nic and Battle end up doing the cute couple thing - for all of two weeks. Kissing is wetter and softer than I with my romance novel education had expected and not quite as exciting except in retrospect.” That was (more or less) one of the first things I observed about kissing, too, and that detail may have been what finally got me engaged in the story. I cracked up for the first time on page 108: “Let’s discuss this matter clinically. The book is peppered with Nic’s “field notes,” which read more like a journal than like anything scientific. And who, of course, immediately captures Nic’s unsuspecting heart. On the first day she makes friends with computer (and fashion) geek Katrina, history nut Isaac (who obviously likes Katrina), music nerd Kevin (who Nic doesn’t like) and Battle, who dances and wants to be a vet. To summarize: Nicola (Nic) Lancaster is spending the summer at an institute for gifted teens, studying archeology. The first hundred pages of Empress of the World struck me as kind of bland. Empress of the World, by Sara Ryan (review)
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