A review by eliasreads
Anything But Okay by Sarah Darer Littman

2.0

I’ve had this book kind of sitting around so I wanted to try reading it. I think my main gripe with the book was the exposition and characters. Stella is a white girl with white privilege who doesn’t quite understand all her faults. While Ferida was a good character and did her best to tell Stella the problems with some of the things Stella thought, she just wasn’t my favorite character. I think this book handled ptsd and what veterans deal with in a good way especially since this book is targeted towards more middle grade. It was just the writing for me. The characters felt unnatural and the romance plot line felt stale and didn’t need to happen in my opinion. I feel there could have been better things in this book, but for what it is I do think it’s a good book for younger audiences, it just wasn’t for me.