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A review by emjrasmussen
Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index by Julie Israel
A heartbreaking-yet-heartwarming book about grief + family + growing as a person after a tragedy. The mystery storyline about Juniper trying to find “You” is really engaging too!
My biggest complaint is that the secondary characters didn’t feel quite well-developed enough. I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if the friend group felt more lifelike and complex. They sometimes felt like tools for Juniper’s character development (which is interesting because a portion of the storyline is about Juniper realizing she CAN’T just use her friends as tools to help her move on from her sister’s death).
My biggest complaint is that the secondary characters didn’t feel quite well-developed enough. I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if the friend group felt more lifelike and complex. They sometimes felt like tools for Juniper’s character development (which is interesting because a portion of the storyline is about Juniper realizing she CAN’T just use her friends as tools to help her move on from her sister’s death).