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regperez 's review for:
This Close to Okay
by Leesa Cross-Smith
2.5 really and only because I did enjoy how she described certain things with colors or smells. I thought it was unique. Like “yellow meow”.
But it is SO overwritten. There were entire chunks that I thought were pointless and added nothing to the story. Long descriptions and boring chit chat between characters.
The dialogue between the main characters were really short and felt more like a quick Q&A that was flat and kind of unrealistic.
Also, what kind of therapist is this asking this guy if his parents have any mental health issues. Anxiety? depression? Trying to diagnose him based on hiss family. He’s freaking GRIEVING and she’s over here trying to diagnose him. This author clearly doesn’t understand grief and it was really frustrating to read.
And using the word “disorders” or “Illness” when talking about mental health really bothered me and shows me she did zero research on trauma. Labeling something as normal and human like trauma and grief as an ILLNESS is messed up.
The writing sometimes was mega cheesy:
“His feelings shuffled like a deck of cards - diamonds of embarrassment, overreacting clubs, stubbornness in spades, the ace of guilt. And his heart, their hearts, still beating.” Lolllll stoppppp.
I also hated all the descriptions in the parentheses. Later she explains what they’re about but they really disrupted the flow of things and honestly, I skipped like 80% of them, knowing they’d add nothing to the story.
Bottom line: she’s a shit therapist who makes terrible decisions and I’m mad at myself for staying up till 4am reading this book bc I wanted to know what had happened to the guy. I was super disappointed and the ending? garbage.
But it is SO overwritten. There were entire chunks that I thought were pointless and added nothing to the story. Long descriptions and boring chit chat between characters.
The dialogue between the main characters were really short and felt more like a quick Q&A that was flat and kind of unrealistic.
Also, what kind of therapist is this asking this guy if his parents have any mental health issues. Anxiety? depression? Trying to diagnose him based on hiss family. He’s freaking GRIEVING and she’s over here trying to diagnose him. This author clearly doesn’t understand grief and it was really frustrating to read.
And using the word “disorders” or “Illness” when talking about mental health really bothered me and shows me she did zero research on trauma. Labeling something as normal and human like trauma and grief as an ILLNESS is messed up.
The writing sometimes was mega cheesy:
“His feelings shuffled like a deck of cards - diamonds of embarrassment, overreacting clubs, stubbornness in spades, the ace of guilt. And his heart, their hearts, still beating.” Lolllll stoppppp.
I also hated all the descriptions in the parentheses. Later she explains what they’re about but they really disrupted the flow of things and honestly, I skipped like 80% of them, knowing they’d add nothing to the story.
Bottom line: she’s a shit therapist who makes terrible decisions and I’m mad at myself for staying up till 4am reading this book bc I wanted to know what had happened to the guy. I was super disappointed and the ending? garbage.