This eventually becomes a story about constructing a robot for an equivalent of Robot Wars, here called Robot Rumble.įaith Erin Hicks’ expressive cartooning is first rate, and handles a fair amount of what personality development there is. Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong begins as a young adult novel about two different high school groups needing money to fund their ambitions. Neither, however, wants to to cross the intimidating cheerleading squad, captained by Holly, the girl who dumps Charlie on the opening page. Sports jock Charlie is thoughtful and insecure, while technology engineer Ryan is assertive and confident. This awkward situation is set up extremely well, not least by playing the characters against established type. In the opening third of the book they’re pitched against each other as opponents when both stand for the position of president on the student council, again a decision neither has taken willingly.
Perhaps not willingly, but High School basketball captain Charlie Nolan and science geek Ryan Harding have known each other since childhood when they were forced together by their parents on the basis of living on the same street.
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