A review by chronicallybookish
Fight + Flight by Jules Machias

3.75

This was cute, and I really enjoyed the narration. Both characters were voicy in the best way. The story was a bit tedious in its repetition at the time, and while I liked the general portrayal of Sarah’s anxiety, Im not a fan of the fact that, in the under two months in which the book takes place, she is able to get it from completely out of control to manageable with no help, no therapy, and only a single google search’s worth of CBT exercise. That’s not something a 12 year old can do alone, and I think it may do more harm than good to make it out as if that’s achievable to any 12 year olds with anxiety disorders. I know if I had read it at 12, when my anxiety was out of control, I’d have felt like a failure for not being able to do what Sarah did.