I found the plot turns and period unravelling of Evie’s state more impressive than the protagonist’s voice or the often didactic nature of the prose.
Evie forms friendships with Lottie, an old primary school friend who joins the same high school as her, and tall, red-haired Amber, perhaps the most likable person after Evie. Her therapist, Sarah is believable and sympathetic. Never-been-kissed Evie forms crushes or semi-crushes on three quite different boys at school, Ethan, Oli and Guy, the lead singer of the boy band. Her best friend forever, Jane, forms a quite obsessive liaison with the leader of a boy band, Joel, at their high school, a band that plays quite unwholesome, loud, metallic and misogynistic music. Evelyn, otherwise known as Evie, is sixteen, and displays a number of non-coping behaviours and negative emotions, stemming largely from her professional diagnosis of OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder.
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