stephenking's reviews
369 reviews

I can really relate to Audrey as I have an anxiety disorder.. a severe social anxiety disorder called selective mutism. It means I can't talk to basically anyone, ive spoken to only 6 people in my 20 years of life, other than that, never spoken outside my house. After I finished school, I stayed home and grew a big fear of the outside world and the sun (dad passed away from skin cancer and ive been cautious ever since)
You now how Audrey wears her sunglasses everywhere? Well I do the same thing but with winter clothes, I wear winter clothes in every season. Australia heat is unbelievable and its currently winter but still hot enough to spend the day at the beach, so I do suffer for wearing winter clothes but I can't stop it. Its my comfort. It has nothing to do with covering my body, I would love to show off my body bc I work hard on keeping myself fit but winter clothes are my comfort.

So I really relate to her.

Other than that, the whole story plays out like a Disney show. Other than the anxiety parts, it was so unrealistic. It felt like a middle grade book.
I liked the story but didn't at the same time.

(read in 2014)
I will never forgive the 2014 book community for hyping this up so much. Ive never seen a bad review for this book (I haven't looked for one) but yo, I hate this book more than anything and its always all over youtube and ig and whatever and seeing it fills me with rage. I see the colour mint green and think of this. Its ruined mint choc chip ice cream for me,, just kidding, I don't eat mint choc chip because im not disgusting

I read this back in 2016 but I just want to share my unique reading experience for this book.
I was walking to my room and opened the first page and read the first couple lines, I stopped outside my bedroom door and kept reading. Before I knew it, I finished the book. I read this whole book in one standing, I don't even know how I did it but I was standing in one place for hours and didn't take my eyes of this book once. No toilet or snack breaks. It sucked me in so much that I didn't even realise I was standing for that long.
When I finished it, I kinda looked around and realised where I was and how dark it got around me, It was night time!

I read the first two books in one sitting so if that doesn't say how addicting these books are...

This is the type of book you could teach in a class and study every page in one lesson.

anyways, it was a really short book so I don't have much to say.
It could of included more upset people in it. Like I wanted to hear what her friends felt, what her favourite teachers felt. All it was was these kids whining about prom and how Anna killing herself inconvenienced them. Those were needed but there was too many of this people and not enough people sad about Anna. Not really realistic.

This is a super short book but the author has more detailed characters than characters in a 8 book series.
I really recommend this to anyone and everyone

Read this in April and it still haunts me to this day.. honestly the worst book I've ever read.
Can I please stop seeing this book on my update feed? It just reminds me that this book exists and it makes me regret ever picking up the book.