Mikey struggles with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. This book is entirely about the regular kids who live their lives in the background of huge, epic events that they know very little about. Sometimes they are menaced by bad things or caught up in an attack on prom, but for the most part, they stay firmly in the background of events and they stay as oblivious as they can manage to be. Basically, think of all the extras in Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer who are just going to their lockers to get books so they can pass their finals. Those who are part of the weird happenings are called indie kids. In every generation, there’s some weird supernatural conflict, but most people are never a part of it. Mikey lives in a small town surrounded by woods. There is some romance, but the aspect of this book that is probably going to be of most interest to the Bitchery is its compassionate and insightful treatment of mental illness. This is a story about all the kids in high school who are not Scoobies, Gryffindors, Cullens, or Chosen Ones. This YA follows the narrator, Mikey, his friends, and his family as they try to get through their last months of high school. Patrick Ness’ book The Rest of Just Live Here turned out to be completely different from what I expected – but in a good way. Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
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