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A review by mesy_mark
Define "Normal" by Julie Anne Peters
3.0
This is an okay book looking at the fact of what it is liked to live under a mother who is severely clinically depressed to the point of hospitalization. Antonia is fourteen and is trying to be the perfect image to protect her real home life existence that is taking care of her brothers and mother with her father long gone. Jaz a punk is in the peer counseling program too. And she is who Antonia is supposed o help.
The plot is okay. I typically like Julie Anne Peters's books. It just felt a little bit like it was too chid like for being a young adult book. It could have been written with more of an older teen tone since the characters were already 14 and dealing with heavy stuff. It might have made it more interesting. Or at least make this middle grade- it seemed to just put in a gray zone that made the text a little harder to get into.
The plot is okay. I typically like Julie Anne Peters's books. It just felt a little bit like it was too chid like for being a young adult book. It could have been written with more of an older teen tone since the characters were already 14 and dealing with heavy stuff. It might have made it more interesting. Or at least make this middle grade- it seemed to just put in a gray zone that made the text a little harder to get into.