I had some bad episodes, yes, and I had some minor setbacks, but I wasn't going to let that stop me.

The music on the sound system is too loud and the conversations around me are hitting my eardrums with a force that makes me wince, but I’m going with it instead of resisting. I don't feel we had enough development on Audrey's father for me to have strong feelings, and apart from being the cute younger brother who acts as comic relief, Felix also isn't a memorable character for me. And mum just looked at me as if she wanted to laugh or maybe cry, and she said, "But, Audrey, that's what life is.

I can feel my heart pumping, but whether it’s because of the noise or the people or because I’m with a hot-looking boy, I don’t know.

Audrey is in no way "cured" by the end of this novel, she is still struggling despite her improvements and I believe those improvements would be inspiring to make teens in similar situations. Panic attacks became a regular thing, and it wasn't uncommon for me to have one once, twice, maybe even three times a week. I was expecting a typical mental illness contemporary, where the MC has something "wrong" with them, meets some love interest, is miraculously cured, and then goes to make-out or have sex, or whatever the fuck with their insta-lover. There’s her Daily Mail reading mum, computer game addicted big brother, and well-meaning dad trying, and generally failing, to say the right thing. I was the kid sitting quietly on the swings, book in hand, while the other kids my age ran around the playground, screaming and yelling at the top of their lungs.The story is about a girl named Audrey who is suffering from a mental illness due to some incident in her school. So, yeah, I was expecting this book to be good rep and hopefully give me some sort of comfort and a story to look to for hope when my anxiety got the best of me. But Kinsella has definitely brought her wonderful sense of humor with the characters and the way they interact. I also felt there was too large of a focus on being addicted to video games - At times, it felt as if their mother's obsession with Frank's video game usage overtook the focus on Audrey's story. like this kid linus comes in from out of nowhere and is very flat and we know very little about him and then he just HEALS audrey and like.