Review of We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Goodreads Synopsis 
You go through life thinking there’s so much you need…

Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother.

Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.


My Thoughts 

Rating 3.5 

The writing was superb and had me feeling “lonely” & mentally paralyzed.

The way the author describes Marin’s dorm room makes you feel like your standing right beside her and the shared feeling you get when Marin has a panic attack about going into the elevator was well illustrated.

If you decide to pick this up don’t forget to bring your highlighter and tissue box.

Review of When My Heart Joins The Thousand By A.J Steiger

Goodreads Synopsis

Obviously I’m not what most people would describe as happy. But that has nothing to do with anything. Happiness is not a priority. Survival is.

Alvie Fitz doesn’t fit in, and she doesn’t care. She’s spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy.

If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she’ll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she’ll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home.

All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend, Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. She can bide her time with him until her emancipation. Humans are overrated anyway. Then she meets Stanley, a boy who might be even stranger than she is—a boy who walks with a cane, who turns up every day with a new injury, whose body seems as fragile as glass. Without even meaning to, she finds herself getting close to him. But Alvie remembers what happened to the last person she truly cared about.

Her past stalks her with every step, and it has sharp teeth. But if she can find the strength to face the enemy inside her, maybe she’ll have a chance at happiness after all.

My Thoughts
*E-ARC* I wanna thank Harper collins for approving my request.
I absolutely loved this book. I wish we had more Alvie's in this world. I honestly never heard of Aspergers before reading this so I was pulled in from the start. I really feel like  there needs to be a better system in school for children that are a bit different. If Alvie's mother was educated and maybe had more guidance about her child's mental disorder I believe things would have been extremely different.

I LOVED Stanley's motivation and patience when it came to Alvie. My favorite parts of the story are the scenes with Alvie and Stanley. From the computer messaging to the park bench conversations.

I teared up many times reading this, I really hope to read more about Alvie & Stanley.
Bravo to the author A.J Steiger your writing is magnificent.