- Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon Pulse (Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0613734122
- ISBN-13: 978-0613734127
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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There's nothing like having your own space, as Rich, the hero of Shacked Up quickly discovers when an unexpected guest invades his newly found refuge.
Pretty soon after that I find myself really needing to leave the flat. I've got this vague intention of going into college, but leaving the flat is the main thing. I'm feeling inadequate and angry both at the same time and I don't know how to deal with it. There's Barb being all wonderful and supportive, and there's Bonny being all wonderful and determined and strong, and they're both thinking wonderful brave new thoughts about the future, and all I can do is feel pissed off someone else is in my flat. That's the way I see it. My flat.
The sequel to Hard Cash, Shacked Up again features the character of Rich, a dreamer who has luckily been saved from drifting too far by his considerable artistic talent. After deciding that he has to leave home, Rich is given a flat to move into by kindly friends Nick and Barb and Rich relaxes into his own space and begins to explore his independence. That is until he's joined by fellow escapee Bonny, trying to make the break from her overbearing mother Tigger.
Rich's situation isn't helped by his infatuation with Portia, the remote, selfish, impossible beauty, who is the epitome of the irresistible but unsuitable object of lust. As a 17-year old guy, Rich knows that he is letting sex cloud his judgment, but so be it. That is until he realises that he has begun to really care about someone else.
Kate Cann has an incredibly readable style which makes the chapters fly by well before you want them to and she populates her novels with fallible characters who are very easy to relate to. Featuring some very realistic and recognisable teenage relationships, the couples, the infatuated and the rejected, Shacked Up is a great novel about finding your own two feet and knowing who to lean on when you have to. --Rachel Ediss
Kate Cann, is the author of the tremendously successful Coll and Art trilogy, Diving In, In the Deep End and Sink or Swim. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i definately agree with all of the other reviewers about this book and it felt weird for me as books i normally read are from a female point of view so we got 2 findsome things about 'the opposite sex' i have really only started and up to the 8th chapter in one nights read! i read hard cash and i was desperate to find the fab shacked up! i 100% recommend it. and you dont nessisarily need to read hard cash coz it explains really in itself. happy reading. Katherine from Peterboroughxx
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Kate Cann is such a good writer its got everything a teenager would want to read about. Hard Cash the first book in the seris is equally as good. You won't want to put them down - I didn't.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Shacked Up is the second novel in the trilogy about a teenager named Richard Steele. In the latest edition of the book, Bonnie is "shacked up" with Rich. This causes for tension to form between the two "friends," but their relationship is as good as ever, and Rich feels like he has found someone to talk to like a normal person. However, much to Bonnie's dismay, Rich is still set on his "visual person" attitude and is sleeping with Portia. Rich starts to mature however, and realizes that his relationship with Portia doesn't mean anything.
This book is a great, easy read for any teenager. I finished it in just one night and was said that it was over. Richard's character is a great portrayal of how some guys only like someone for their looks, not their personality or brains. Girls and guys alike will not be able to put this book down.
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Shacked Up By Kate Cann GR8 BOOK!
This book is fab!!! I love it though is it me or is it the same as the sequel Moving Out, Moving In and Moving on just with a different cover?? Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2007 by Amy
shacked up
BRILLIANT. i couldnt pu this down both myself and my sister think the trilogy is excellent. kate cann is a fantastic writer.
Published on 26 July 2004 by "gem1704"
quality
this book is sheer quality. i think that kate cann is a great teenage writer and the characters are really easy to relate to. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2004 by "-jeevy-"
the best
this is one of the best books ever read after reading the first book hard cash i felt i must read this so i did and was not disapointed i just can't wait for the third i hope its... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2001
Excellent! A Must Read Book!
Really good, you can't say much more than that, read Hard Cash first though, and you will understand Shacked Up more although it is understandable in itself. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2001
one of the best serises
The idea of bonny moveing in with rich is utterly brilliant especially after she asked him out in the previous book. I read this book and couldn't wait for the next one.
Published on 5 Sep 2001 by bkirk1@mmm.com
Top Class Sequel
Having read the first book in this series on a hot and sunny holiday, I feared that the sequel would not live up to the excellent quality of the second one in dreary England. Read more
Published on 28 May 2001
When's the next book with Rich and Bonnie in it coming out?
This book is another classic from Kate Kann! If you've read Hard Cash, then you must read it, and once you have read it (probably in a couple of days as it is so adictive! Read more
Published on 16 April 2001
Excellent!
Yet another excellent book from Kate Cann.. just as good as Hard Cash, and just as addictive.. I couldnt put it down. You wont be disappointed!
Published on 13 Mar 2001
A Brilliant Book
This is an excellant sequel to an equally excellent first book. It must be every teenage boys dream to move out, get a really great flat and also have the girl he fancies finally... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2001
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