Anatomy of a Boyfriend

Daria Snadowsky

Sep 2008 · Sold by Delacorte Press

About this ebook

"Like [Judy Blume's] Forever, this sensitive, candid novel is sure to find a wide audience among curious teens."--Booklist

Before this all happened, the closest I’d ever come to getting physical with a guy was playing the board game Operation. Okay, so maybe that sounds pathetic, but it’s not like there were any guys at my high school who I cared to share more than three words with, let alone my body.
     Then I met Wes, a track star senior from across town. Maybe it was his soulful blue eyes, or maybe my hormones just started raging. Either way, I was hooked. And after a while, he was too. I couldn’t believe how intense my feelings became, or the fact that I was seeing—and touching—parts of the body I’d only read about in myGray’s Anatomy textbook. You could say Wes and I experienced a lot of firsts together that spring. It was scary. It was fun. It was love.
     And then came the fall.
     Daria Snadowsky‘s unflinching dissection of seventeen-year-old Dominique’s first relationship reveals the ecstasy and the agony of love, and everything in between.
 
"[Snadowsky] deals in modern terms with the real issues of discovering sex for the first time . . . in a responsible way."--SLJ

Ratings and reviews

and what really got me interested in the book in the first place was that cover! How hysterical is that!? If they could teach classes about love & relationships with that diagram, I think girls would get a kick out of going to class only to see this dissected ver. of the so-called "ultimate boyfriend". Need I mention a whole bunch of "...I SO didn't see that coming"(s) with everything happening; I was shocked that Daria would add such a high content to the story about their sexual relationship and how it made her feel - in a light I can relate to what she felt about all of it. I really liked how it was written and the growth they showed in Dom's life, but at the same time, I didn't like how it ended (endings are my big thing); it was her first real relationship and it had to be taken very seriously (so she thought) and when you've never been in a real relationship sometimes the experimenting levels you've had are really low. There was no way she could have really known all the emotions that went into a sexual relationship and unfortunately for her, he wasn't doing anything to try & find out what turned her on. I thought for sure that they were gonna be together but, when they went away to different colleges I knew they were meant to split up. I wasn't expecting all those "images" but, they were kinda funny in a way.

Read the book, it was a really good book, really humorous, the sex scenes were a bit embarrasing, but practice makes perfect, but I have to say.... Wes sounded like a perfect guy! But you know, I guess all guys are Jerks, and it is really hard to find a good man.... And also, my best friend, and me relate to this too, im a bit like Dominique, and my friends more like Amy... im kind of like the tomboyish, and shes more, girly.... And By the Way!!! The guy from her college, is really sweet :-) This was my first time reading the book, I liked it!!!

Loved the book. Anyone into gooshy teen romance novels should give it a chance, it has an exciting twist. Can't wait until anatomy of a girlfriend comes out (January 2013)

About the author

This is Daria Snadowsky's first novel. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.