So I downloaded the novel for shits & giggles last night thinking oh well I might as well since the download link popped up on my tumblr. So the novel basically follows generation 2 through out their summer before series 4. Effy & Anthea (her mummy dearest) escape the mess they created back in Bristol (shocker...), the Fitchest head off to France, the 3 musketeers stay at home & Cook & Freddie shag anything w a pulse & JJ is just JJ, Pandora struggles to tell her mom she's a woman, Thomas struggles w when he should surf & turf Panda & Naomi is struggling w having the future she wants but also staying with Emily.
wow. That isn't a good wow by the way. I was struggling to get through the book & was often tempted to just skip through a lot of it. I did enjoy some of Katie's pov though. I liked how you got to actually have an insight, but other than that, you didn't gain much from the novel & it was kind of boring. Sex crazed writer. Dear God! I felt as if I was reading a fan fiction. I understand there is a lot of sex in Skins, anyone who's seen the show knows that, but wow. Naomily's relationship seemed more based on sex than love as opposed to the show. I really disliked Freddie & Cook in the novel, (can you even call it a novel?), but I adore my little Cookie Monster in the show. Although I normally think Katie is an twat, I love how you got to see her vulnerable & weak & honest. Ugh Anthea is selfish. I love Flo. She's probably my favorite character. Skins stop killing my favorite fucking characters! You fuckers! spoiler alert is in the title, don't hate me.
Okay so I'm going to kind of break this down.
Freddie- alrighty so he just fucks people & gets annoyed w Cook. Nothing new. Also he texts Effy to not come back. Then he regrets it and continues to fuck bitches and not get money.
Cook- he misses Effy. I actually enjoy his dynamic with Naomi, but other than that he's a tit in the novel. Constantly puts poor JJ in shit situations.
JJ- poor JJ. He's just treated like a joke in the novel & is put between Freddie & Cook as usual.
Emily- she's dealing with her family. She & Katie fight & she's growing a backbone. woohoo go Ems! She's all loved up on Naomi, she realizes the Katie is actually extremely insecure. took ya long enough sweetheart.
Naomi- she's struggling with wanting to go to uni and maybe even Yale which if you didn't know is very prestigious & an amazing school, but also stay with Emily. She's also still seems a bit uncomfortable with her own sexuality.
Katie- Katie actually shows a lot of character growth. Yay I'm proud of you Katie. She goes on a family trip and fucks multiple people & then heads off to France & is a bit of a bitch but after a fight w Ems finally admits to herself that she actually is very very insecure & so she runs off to Venice w Effy of all people. wot.. anyway she sees Effy all broken & I think it actually helps her out & Katie kinda grows from seeing her a mess & from getting called out by a white girl wasted Eff. So she heads back & makes up w Emily. She also says that for the first time in a long time she's happy to be herself.
Effy- So a big portion of the book does revolve around Effy. Which isn't anything new. The Stonems are a massive part of Skins. Anthea is a huge part of Effy's story in the book. So Effy is feeling rather shit about what happened back home as is her mom so they run off to Venice. Effy meets an older man named Aldo & actually starts to fall for him. She even masturbates to the thought of him & has a LOT of sexual thoughts about him. He tells her about a girl he loved back in the day & how she was a lot like Effy but ended up offing herself. Which hit Effy hard. Effy also meets an old senile lady named Florence who later passes away the day Effy finds out the her mom had sex w Aldo. You get an inner monologue which is new in terms of the quiet Effy. You also see her have a mental break down which kind of hints at what happens in series 4. Effy also falls apart in front of Katie after receiving a text from Freddie saying to just stay away. Katie reads it & they form a bit of an understanding.
Panda/Thomas- I decided to put them together since their stories pretty much have to do with each other more or less. So Pandora really wants to have sex with Thomas, but Thomas doesn't seem to be ready since he has more respect for her & doesn't want it to just be a fuck, understandable. Thomas is invited for dinner at the Moon's house. All goes well until Panda wants Thomas to stay over and tells her mom that they're in love. Thomas then leaves and it's just the Moons. So Pandora tells her mom she's had sex and that she wants to be treated like a woman and Pandora's mom more or less kicks her out then Panda goes to live at her aunts house (the one that grows pot) and shows through her conversations that Pandora really isn't as grown as she thought she was. Thomas also buys her donuts that she had the first time they met when she vomitted and had to be carried to Effy's. Panda later tells Thomas that she did it for them.
So the novel pretty much ends with all of the group, except for Effy, in Cook's "uncle's" pub all having a relatively good time. yay. happy days & Effy & Anthea going to Rome just the two of them but it is implied that Effy's mom will still being seeing Aldo.
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