thesecrethistorystan 's review for:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

4.0

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this was my fave book 2 years ago so it obviously holds a special place in my heart regardless of my thoughts after this reread. it still gets a fairly high rating because this book helped me a lot at the time when i read this book, through some things i was going through. i do feel that the twist with aunt helen at the end was a little unnecessary? i'm not sure what the purpose of it was, cuz i'm sure the book would've been the same if that wasn't included. i don't know if this is because charlie's letters are supposed to be short and overall not some in-depth analysis of things, but i think that the aunt helen thing wasn't dealt with more mindfully, idk. i mean you could also argue that the point of his letters is to just give an overall summary of things happening in his life so it's not like he HAS to do any of that. overall, the characters in this book were so loveable jeez. patrick and charlie and sam really did it for me. i love how this book was written, and i think this book is definitely the most "coming of age" book of all "coming of age" books, which was probably why i loved it soo much 2 years ago. like it dealt with a lot of things normal teens go through, and the "normalcy" of how the characters acted/things that occured made this book very likeable for me. this book was rlly easy to get through and a good read overall. i'll always have some sort of connection to this book because it was my fave book of all time at one point in my life, and that's always gonna make my idea of this book more biased.