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Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend
Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend | Alan Cumyn
11 posts | 8 read | 6 to read
Prepare to be blown awayor rather, carried away on huge muscular wingsby this blissfully outlandish, bracingly-smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot newpterodactylat school. After all, everybody wants him! Shiels is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while shes at it). Shes smart, powerful, the Student Body Chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. Theres something about himsomething primalthat causes the students to lose control whenever hes around. Even Shiels, the seemingly perfect self-confident girl that she is, cant keep her mind off of him, despite her doting boyfriend and despite the fact that Pyke immediately starts dating Jocelyn, the schools fastest runner who Shiels has always discounted as a nobody. Pyke, hugely popular in a school whose motto is to embrace differences, is asked to join a band, and when his band plays at the Autumn Whirl dance, his preternatural shrieking music sends everyone into a literal frenzy. No one can remember what happened the next day, but Shiels learns that she danced far too long with Pyke, her nose has turned purple, and she may have done something with her boyfriend that she shouldnt have. Whos in control now? Hilarious and relatable (despite the dinosaur), Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend is about a teen who must come to terms with not being in control of all things at all times, break free of her mundane life, discover who her true self is, and, oh, finding out that going primal isnt always a bad thing.
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RebeccaRoo7
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I picked this book up just because of the title and the cover design. I thought that it might be somewhat like A.S. King's "I Crawl Through It" and it is not. Actually, it has more similarities with "Grasshopper Jungle" by Andrew Smith - all those great Science Fiction elements. #sciencefiction #entertainment #love #pterodactyl #comingofage #readit #alancumyn

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LibrarianJen
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The ending didn't complete the story which I know bugs people. The big message though is that life goes on. There is more to life than high school and you don't have to have everything in life figured out even when your older. You can relax, give into your primal instincts on occasion, and take time to know who you really are as a person, not what other people want you to be, or perceive you to be. The story can end however you want it to end.

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LibrarianJen
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Was at a brewery for an annual fundraiser for the Albuquerque Mountain search and rescues all day. Sad to say, even though I had my book, I didn't get any reading done. Now however, it's time to relax with some much needed water and to finish this book and perhaps start another! #JensBooksandBrews

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LibrarianJen
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I was just taking a break, reading, when I felt something graze my arm..Oh hello! Do you want a piece of the Pterodactyl too?

Kkhalifeh Little baby pterodactyl! 8y
Readingrobin LOL! 8y
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LibrarianJen
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"Sheils's spinning thoughts kept coming back to one essential truth: Jocelyne was Pyke's real girlfriend. He'd been smitten with her from the beginning. Everyone knew that. He might have wrangle danced with Sheils, but his wings flapped for just one girl."

You guys! This book! I can't even...!?????❤️

MrBook 😂👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻 8y
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LibrarianJen

"Sheils's spinning thoughts kept coming back to one essential truth: Jocelyne was Pyke's real girlfriend. He'd been smitten with her from the beginning. Everyone knew that. He might have wrangle danced with Sheils, but his wings flapped for just one girl."

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LibrarianJen
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So I'm about 80 pages in, it's a quick read. My first impressions are:
1) this poor girl takes things so seriously she is going to burn out on life by the time she's like 25! It's high school. Relax a little!
2) the pterodactyl isn't a shifter. He is an actual pterodactyl and walks around school with wings and beak and everything. It's very interesting.
3) They haven't discussed other inter-species in the society yet. So far it's just this one.

Bookworm54 Sounds interesting... I look forward to your review! 8y
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LibrarianJen
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I needed something a bit more lighthearted after finishing the 5th Wave series, Girl on the Train, and Into the Wild. I've heard mixed reviews about this book from my librarian friends, but I want to give it a shot. If anything the title is awesome! #JensBooksandBrews

Eyelit 😂 8y
GardenJess I brought it home Friday! 8y
Soubhiville Agreed, great title 😂 8y
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ABookishLife
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Killer mermaids in Lake Superior, pterodactyls in high school, werewolves on the Titanic, monster grasshoppers taking over the world, killer unicorns, & killer horses make up some of the stranger stories in my library.

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Caralen
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Panpan

The title bewitched me! It was everything I could've ever hoped for!! A hot pterodactyl with his strong, muscular chest... What more could one want from a book?

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SarahShoo
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Bailedbailed

You know those books that just make you WTF??!??? An example of one well done and one not.