[Review] The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram

The Avery Shaw Experiment
Kelly Oram
May 2, 2013
Bluefields

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 When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how—scientifically.

The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.

Avery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. She needs to live. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest.

Have you ever finished a book and literally sighed at the end because it you had warm fuzzies when it was over?  If you answered yes, then you know what I was going through when I read the last page of The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram.  The Avery Shaw Experiment is about Avery who didn’t just get her heart broke but crushed by her best friend Aiden.  Luckily with the help his older brother Grayson she is starting to put the pieces back together by proving that the only way to cure a broken heart is to go through the five stages of grief.   Since Aiden is no longer her science fair partner she asks Grayson to help her.  Together they set out to prove Avery’s theory and find romance along the way.

The Avery Shaw Experiment is a very quick and very cute read.  I read it in a couple of hours.  When I had to the book down to go to work I felt like a drug addict because all I wanted to do was get back to the book to find out what happened next.  The Avery Shaw Experiment is a contemporary romantic comedy.  I loved that the book is told from both Avery and Grayson’s point of view.  I really liked how sometimes it takes someone who is the complete opposite to help get you out of your comfort zone and not to settle just because it’s there.  I liked how Avery grew from a quiet, scared and socially awkward to being able to stand up for herself.  I like how Grayson realized that he wasn’t just a dumb womanizing jock to going to college and falling in love.  The side characters, Avery’s best friend Libby, always put a smile on my face. 

In conclusion, if you are looking for a cute, sweet, and definitely warm fuzzy kind of read to past the time then pick up The Avery Shaw Experiment.  I highly recommend it and give it four very solid laser pistols.  Not to mention that I completely fell for Grayson, for Avery of course.