A bit of a mixed bag this one. I liked reading it and I thought the characters were interesting but some elements felt a little bit out of place.
Firstly Lennie's name actually being Lennon after John Lennon but it's not mentioned if Bailey is named after anyone. Speaking of names a point is made of saying their school has loads of kids with weird names such as a girl named Electricity (Triss for short?) and a guy named tulip but then Lennie's best friend is lumbered with a name like Sarah, who speaking of didn't have much personality beyond 'cool bitch' and about 20 different identities run together - that was rather jarring to read. As were words like Joeliciousness or whatever it was. Plus the constant 'Bat. Bat. Bat' was getting on my nerves.
Also Toby, what the hell was going on there?? Your girlfriend has just died and you're there kissing her sister, you ass! It was wrong for Lennie to play along but in her grief over her sisters death she was marginally less responsible. I loved Gram, Big was weird, Joe was sweet although their relationship seemed a little fast.
Lennie's missing mum was a subject that kept getting picked up and dropped and didn't really go anywhere. I quite liked the poems and their notes about where they were dropped but their inclusion in the story felt like an afterthought and those scenes felt a bit rushed.
3/5 stars.
Stef Out x
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