Title: Every Last Word
Author: Tamara Ireland Stone
Length: 368 pages
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Classification: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mental Health
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Source: e-galley via NetGalley (Thank you Disney-Hyperion!)
Read: June 2015
If
you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.
Samantha
McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her
junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly
applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand:
Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark
thoughts and worries that she can't turn off.
Second-guessing
every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it
doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first
sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows
she'd be truly crazy
to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when
Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing
sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's
weekly visits to her psychiatrist.
Caroline introduces Sam to
Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who
have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them
immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse,
and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she
begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of
the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her
sanity and all she holds dear.
Caroline introduces Sam to
Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who
have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them
immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse,
and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she
begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of
the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her
sanity and all she holds dear.