Literary Lusts: Jacob Coote

This terrorising bad boy from Cook High who once cracked two eggs on Josie Alibrandi’s glasses is just lusty lusty teen hotness. Yep. I’m talking about THAT hot Jacob. The one from Melina Marchetta’s YA staple, Looking For Alibrandi

Plus, he clearly has a thing for foreign booknerdy girls with frizzy hair and glasses and strict mothers. I’m SO IN. He dated Josie, and made her wag school and cool stuff like that. But he also wasn’t afraid to tell her things she didn’t want to hear. I always preferred Jacob to John. He’s just so much more raw, and full of life. And FUNNY. Plus, if the movie is accurate, he had FACIAL HAIR (or, as it’s referred to in the book, “‘hood look’ stubble”). Yummm. He gets angry but he also really cares for Josie. Rough around the edges. And not a complete bonehead - he is School Captain. I would have loved him even more if Anthony Lapaglia became Jacob’s father-in-law, but that would’ve meant he was married to Josephine, not me.


I’m all lusted out. Gonna go reread the book now. I wasn’t a huge fan of Kick Gurry as Jacob in the movie. And now I can’t find a decent picture of him anyway.But here’s one where you can see how strong he is at carrying girls, with the muscular arms and stuff (and he has long hair, you just can’t see it).

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