Am I too old for this book? Probably.
Do I care? No.

I absolutely loved it. Yes, it was probably targeted to people a lot younger than me which is why I found it quite cringe in some places however, it was NEEDED. The perfect book to read when you just need to escape from whats going on in the world around you!

I really liked all the characters, but Wren was my favourite!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

“We’re human. Skin and bones and beating hearts. Flawed and painstakingly average. We aren’t forever. Or permanent. We’ll rust and burn and fade away, with the faith and hope that our souls will be what we could not: infinite. But our mortality is what makes our lives all the more remarkable.”

Is this book cheesy? Yes
Am I too old for this book? Probably
Did it make me happy? Hell yes.

Thank you to Wattpad Books and NetGalley for the chance to read and review the published copy of Wattpad’s 2016 story - The Hoodie Girl

This book was absolutely predictable and cheesy and allowed a nice escape from the hectic reality that we are all living in now.

The story was an adorable high school romance, that also dived into deeper things such as trauma, grief, and abuse. The connection that Wren had with her red hoodie quickly made sense and was well explained. I also loved that Asher played hockey - I love me a sports man!

Overall a nice, breezy read. It definitely had me smiling and feeling warm inside. I would love to know more about their lives post high school and if they made it to the finish line.

2.75 stars
I didn't necessarily hate this book but it was not for me. Not sure why I requested the arc knowing it was young adult but I did anyway. I'd recommend this to pre-teens. These characters did not act or talk like seniors in high school, the dialog at times was very cringe
"I brought graham crackers and marshmallows bitchachos" -
what senior in high school says bitchachos?.

Another thing, about 75% in Wren says she wants into Yale because her father went there yet she has never once brought that up. She says she wants into Yale a few times but that's it. And then she misses school for a week and breaks up with Asher because she didn't get the scholarship??

There were cute scenes and a few funny lines and it feels unfair to rate it so slow just because it wasn't for me but honest opinion is that these characters were immature for their age which ruined it for me.

Wren Martin is teenage me in word form: socially awkward and obsessed with books. Her biggest comfort? Her warm, fuzzy red hoodie. Wren is a senior in high school and wants to get a full ride to college. In the blink of an eye however; Wren ends up babysitting the younger sister of the hottie hockey player, Asher Reed. With a painful hockey injury keeping Asher off the ice, he turns to Wren to keep his mind off things. But will she resist him and shelter in her hoodie? Or will he show her there is a world outside of her comfort zone?

The Hoodie Girl by Yuen Wright is an enjoyable boy meets girl romance. But, I feel that this story has been told endless times and has the same ending. Wren and Asher are great main characters but the side characters are left on the outskirts. Thinking this was going to be a great sports romance, I was let down with the lazy setting and boring plot.

This book was well written, making it easy to forget the lacking of the plot. Hoodie girl pulled me in quickly, and the main characters were likable. Unfortunately, I have to say the male characters were much more developed than the female characters, especially the minor characters. Even Wren felt a little less developed than Asher, despite having more than her share of the narration. The romance was cute, and it managed to surprise me a few times, going against my expectations for a cheesy romance novel, which is what kept me coming back. This book is good for new readers, or readers losing their motivation; it's an easy read and very YA appropriate. I enjoyed my time with this book but likely will not read it again.

I really wanted to like this book, it seemed like a great YA read but it just fell short. In the end I realize I am a bit outside the target audience.
Wren a shy and introverted girl, wears hoodies in the hopes of becoming and staying invisible. However one day she catches the eye of the biggest name in school Asher Reed. While their connection and one liners are cute they just didn’t keep me wanting more.
I think it’s a good start for a debut and hope to see Wright grow as an author in the future.

So I read this book back in my early Wattpad days and I remember rating it 5/5 stars. It's about a 4.5/5 now but I still remember how I felt when I read it that first time and I definitely didn't forget this book even after all the years. Wren the main character just has this energy that just makes you want to keep reading. I'm so happy this book was published off Wattpad. I'm looking forward to seeing if they are going to release any new titles.

This YA book is an opposites attract story that stars at book loving introvert and a popular hockey player whose lives start to intersect. Both have an awesome and supportive squad behind them, which is good as they both have suffered a tough past. You’ll definitely find yourself rooting for these two, as I, myself, did.

This was...definitely a Wattpad book. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the writing style but the content didn't seem very organized. Everything felt all over the place and a lot of the plot points didn't seem to be fully fleshed out. I feel like Asher and Wren had so much potential that wasn't explored. Overall, not too bad but not something I'd pick up to reread or recommend to any friends.

I was given an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a really cute, quick read! Wren is shy and hides behind her favorite red hoodie. She struggles with PTSD from the loss of her father and sister and she has panic attacks pretty often. I found her character to be pretty relatable and very likable. She becomes close with Asher after they bump into each other at the library and he starts to notice her. Asher has just been kicked off the hockey team after an injury, and him and Wren are able to support each other through the hard time they are each going through. I thought the romantic connection between Wren and Asher could’ve been stronger and I would’ve liked to see more from Asher’s character. This was a good read, but it was pretty forgettable.

Thank you Netgalley and Wattpad publishing for this ARC!

Wren just wants to get into Yale, keep her head down, and graduate as valedictorian. Asher wants to have an amazing hockey season and get into the college of his dreams so he can keep playing hockey. Unfortunately for him, he injures his knee at the beginning of the season, dashing his hopes and dreams. After Asher runs into Wren, literally, he’s immediately attracted to her, this mysterious girl who he’s never noticed before despite going to school together for years.

One of my main complaints about this story is highlighted straight off: a sort of love at first sight trope. Then, mousy girl, who isn’t like other girls, isn’t noticed by the hot guy even though they’ve gone to school together since at least middle school and been in the same classes for years.

In the first few pages, it’s established that both Wren and Asher have big goals for their futures, college goals in particular. Wren wants to get into Yale, though why isn’t explained until the last quarter of the novel (a shame, really; it could have been a really nice driving force). Her focus on her studies in the beginning, the first quarter or so, is admirable. But once she starts spending time with Asher, her studies suddenly become non-existent. Wren used homework and studying as a reason to not hang out with her best friend, Mia. She resisted doing anything else because of it. And yet when Asher comes in with parties and sudden plans, Wren is all too willing to drop everything. I just can’t believe that she would be so passionate about school and getting into college, only to drop it all when Asher says so. And it’s not even that she’s ignoring school because a boy is finally attracted to her. It’s that school disappears from the plot entirely.

Asher, after his injury, is no longer interested in hockey. He can’t play so he’s not really interested in coaching or being at practices. But, again, hockey is just dropped from the story entirely. There is no agonizing thought process to the effect that Asher just can’t do hockey anymore and feels guilty for abandoning his teammates. There is a bare mention of the facts, that someone else has taken his place on the team. But then hockey drops from the plot entirely. And, just like the plot drops school and hockey, Wren drops Mia, her best friend. She pops up every now and again, when Wren needs wardrobe help for dates or parties. Mia is just a convenient plot device after the first quarter of the book.

The pacing is completely off, too. Suddenly, it’s Christmas and college application season is over. There is no agonizing over application essays or letters of recommendation. No trying to get the word count within acceptable limits. No editing and editing up until midnight on the deadline, though Wren is described as a procrastinator in the beginning. Though college is the goal, she doesn’t agonize over the application process; it’s the barest mention after the fact. Right after Christmas, it’s suddenly spring break and, guess what, no emails from colleges about decisions. Traditionally, Ivies inform applications on April 1. This is a known fact and it has been this way for years. I feel like Wren would know this, would be researching and hopping on forums in an anxiety induced search, trying to figure out when she would hear back.

I think that’s what gets me the most: these two people fall for each other and nothing else matters and it’s not that they are so obsessed with each other that they just can’t focus on anything else. It’s that the story just completely drops their passions and we’re supposed to believe that they still have these passions off page despite no evidence.

Finally getting into the relationship itself: Asher embodies the pigtail pulling trope. He literally pulls Wren’s ribbon from her hair and keeps it and that’s supposed to be cute. He takes her into the water when she didn’t want to, completely ignoring her protests and not respecting the fact that she was reading. And Wren just takes it, lets Asher walk all over her. And we’re supposed to think it’s cute. It’s not.

The writing itself was fine. It wasn’t amazing. But it was fine. There were some genuinely amusing moments and snappy lines. I didn’t like that attention was drawn to Wren’s ‘chocolate hair’ and ‘honey eyes’ constantly. What does it matter the color of her hair?

Too many cliches and lack of character development made me really want to not finish this book. It was, indeed, a book. But it was not one I enjoyed. The slow burn didn’t lead to any kind of payoff. The characters had passions that were quickly left behind. Characters came and went, their full names dropped and then ignored. Nothing felt developed enough to be a published book, really highlighting the origins of this novel. I have to wonder how much editing went into it between the Wattpad version and this published version with all the inconsistencies.

Wow what a great read. I think that the only complaint that I have is that this book was a little bit too long for my liking .Honeslty I really enjoyed it though. I wish I had this book back in my early teen years. I would have loved this when I was 14 . A great young adult contemporary.

actual rating: 3/5

I remember reading this book years ago on Wattpad, but the only thing that I remembered was how much I loved it and how real it felt to me at the time. I think if I had read this published version at 15, it would have been the perfect story for me. However, reading this at 20, I do not feel as connected to it as I did reading it on Wattpad years ago, and, for me, this book fell a little flat.

This book was so sweet. I think it was well written and the characters were really likable. Both Wren and Asher were characters that I could root for. I liked the way the story flowed, and how it covered a longer time period. I feel like this made it easier to see how the characters grew as people and as a couple. It was very cheesy and cliché at moments, but I honestly did not mind that too much.

However, A lot happened in this book, but at the same time, nothing really happened. There was not really a build up to the climax or even a climax. It was mainly the characters living their lives and we, as readers, got a glimpse of their lives. Which is fine, but for this book, I really wanted more conflict and more resolution. I think it could have really benefitted from this, especially since the plot was nothing brand new. I was not necessarily bored with this book, but I really was not all that interested in it either.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

(3*) The Hoodie Girl was a book I first read on Wattpad, and I was so excited to see that it was getting published!

The book follows Wren, an introverted book lover who is attached to her red hoodie to the point where she almost never takes it off. Wren and Asher's romance was cute and easy to read. Despite the whole opposites-attract thing (that I usually love) that was going on in their relationship, it was hard to see why they were together. I just couldn't feel any chemistry between them and most of the book was telling instead of showing. Their relationship lacked a sort of warmth that I usually look for in book couples.

The writing was fairly good although the jokes and banter were unfunny and a little cringe at times. It's a quick and easy read, something light that would get you out of a reading slump.

Stars: Can I give it ten stars?? 10/5 !!

I love, love, loved this book! This will definitely go down as one of my absolute YA romance books!
Wren is always wearing the same hoodie and doing her best not to draw attention to herself her senior year after the death of her father and sister. Asher is a High school hockey star who is, unfortunately, sidelined due to an injury. With extra time on his hands, he takes an interest in the girl in the red hoodie and falls harder than he intended.

Plot:
Oh, this beautiful plot! I loved the two perspective approach to this book because it was amazing to see the budding romance from Asher and Wren's perspective. This is one of those books that beautifully intertwines two very separate stories into one seamlessly beautiful love story. While it mainly focuses on the relationship, overcoming past trauma and self-pressure is a huge part of this story that only adds to its brilliance.

Characters:
I saw sooo much of myself in Wren being the girl who definitely wore the same hoodie all the time in middle school. Not wanting to draw attention and always with my nose in a book. Wren had amazing character development through her growing relationship with Asher without completely compromising herself as a character. Asher was also the same way; realizing that everything he identified with before his accident is not his entire life after meeting Wren. Also, Asher has become the king of book boyfriends in my opinion because of his willingness to give Wren the space she needs while also being the king of romantic gestures.

I will promote this book to the ends of the earth and am telling you to grab your copy Right N0w!
I will also thank Netgalley for the free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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I enjoyed this book so much. I loved how much I could relate to Wren. She enjoys hoodies and enjoys them for a purpose; being invisible. I like the plot, especially when she had to wear a different hoodie. That is something I could definitely relate to. This book is something that I believe everyone has something to relate to the inside of this. From certain situations to certain judgments. This is def. a book I recommend for everybody.

***Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***
A sweet, first love romance with plenty of angst and learning to trust oneself.

This book was an absolute delight to read. Once I started, I just couldn't stop till I got to the end! We've got golden boy, hockey star Asher Reed, and soon-to-be valedictorian Wren Martin. Two characters from two different worlds who come together after tragedy strikes them both. This was a beautiful story. The way Asher teaches Wren to love herself again with all the grief she's been handling, and after everything she's been through, really makes your heart swoon. Can we also give a shoutout to Ever? She is the cutest kid you will ever meet. Major shoutouts also go out to Brody, Mia, and Zach. They are the most loyal friends out there. The way they stood up for Asher when the rest of the hockey team were stating negative thoughts about him, and supported Wren in every way possible during her panic attack, made me realize what amazing characters they are. DEFINITELY AN AWESOME READ!

THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT READ!!! I enjoyed both of the characters immensely and I related to Wren. I remember being her age and my hoodie was a shield to me. It was awesome to meet a character that I related to personally. I loved their love story and I appreciated how the author wrote both characters. If you haven't already, please read!!!! You won't regret it!

A thrilling novel of first love and love in a school setting a perfect ya contemporary for summer filled with family and friendship drama and romance at its centre. I loved both Wren and Asher perspective and thought the alternating chapters between the characters allow for a greater reading experience. The normal is fun filled and extremely fast paced and could easily be devoured in one sitting. The depth of both Wren and Ashers characters was explored well and I enjoyed thoroughly the character journey they had been on by the end of the novel. A strong recommendation from me to pick it up !