Blog Tour & Review - My Friends Are All Strange
My Friends Are All Strange by Margaret Lesh
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Buy Now: Amazon
Synopsis
My friends are all strange. Right now I'm living at Brookside, a place for people like me. I've met a kitty girl, a brooding beautiful boy, one who can't be touched, and others. My new friends. Strange people. People like me. I've always been different, but lately, more so. My hands sometimes don't seem to be attached to the rest of me. I cut up all of my clothes. I'm hot, so hot, all of the time. If I sleep, a wizard haunts every dream. I don't sleep. Sometimes I want to run, but where do you run to when you're trying to escape your own mind? I don't know if I'll ever be the same. I'm smart. I'm nice, sometimes. I just want to be normal(ish). But, right now, my friends are all strange... Like me.
Dark, funny, snarky, seventeen-year-old Becca struggles to cope with mental illness in My Friends Are All Strange, the gripping contemporary young adult companion novel to Normalish.
Review
I received this ARC from Xpresso Book Tours in exchange for an honest review...
My Friends Are All Strange by Margaret Lesh was certainly different from any of the other young adult books on the market today. This book is about Becca, a high school senior who’s life is suddenly spinning out of control. Mental health is something that receives very little recognition. I think that this author does an extraordinary job writing this book and you can clearly tell that she’s put a lot of time and effort in making sure that she was properly repressing the mental health community. I read this book in one sitting and I have to say I can’t wait to share this book with my younger sister who has suffered with mental health since the age of 13. Growing up I watched both my father and sister struggling to come to grips with their mental health. My father was 24 years old when he was diagnosed with Bipolar/Manic Depressive Disorder and my sister was 17 when she was diagnosed with BPD. This book was a very real and heart aching read. I absolutely loved it and can’t wait to check out what else Margaret Lesh has released! I strongly recommend this book for anyone that has experienced any problems with their mental health in the past or currently. However, I do advise reading with caution and would probably encourage Young Adult readers maybe age 15 and up.
About Margaret Lesh
California native Margaret Lesh lives in a narrow canyon populated by herds of wild burro and packs of coyote. The canyon is also populated with her creative, handsome husband, her feisty mother-in-law, her not-brave-at-all Border Collie, Echo, and sometimes her son (who is away at college. And she is not quite sure how that all happened so fast) She writes books to entertain young and not-so-young readers as well as herself. She believes tacos are magic. Connect with the author: Website / Facebook / Twitter / Goodreads
