I've read Yuffa's review of The Third Wheel and I have to say I disagree completely!
This book starts off by explaining what life was probably like inside a mother's womb. After I'd read the first few pages, I went back and read them again. I blinked. Hard. No, it was true. The books starts with the main character, Greg Heffley, describing what he thought his mum and dad and older brother, Rodrick, did when Greg was inside his mum's tummy.
I'd already read all the other Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and I was incredibly disappointed with this one. As I am 11 years old, the Wimpy Kid books are a little childish for me, but I gave this book a go just to see what it was like.
Basically, what happens is Greg Heffley, a boy in middle school, has quite a lot of trouble finding a girl for the Valentine's dance. He comes up with lots of completely unrealistic ways of getting the girl he wants, for example sending a love letter to a girl he has a crush on in his class and writing something like: "If the answer is no, which I hope it is not, please give this card to Charlotte and if her answer is no, give this card to Kelly." When he does find a partner, which is about seven eights of the way through the book, Greg's friend Rowley turns up with a cowboy hat and scarf wrapped round his neck – covering a chicken pox pimple – at the Valentine's dance, sort of stealing Greg's Valentine from him. For some reason the girl likes a fat boy wearing a cowboy hat and thick scarf who had chicken pox pimples more than a smartly dressed, quite good-looking boy dressed in a suit.
That's all that happened, really. (There was a Valentine's dance and Greg found it hard to find a partner.)
This is a humour book gone wrong.
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