Review: A lot of issues but pulls together well
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2013
To be perfectly honest, in the beginning of Normalish by Margaret Lesh, I was a bit bored and thought the book was going to fall short from what it could. However, it quickly proved me very wrong and it wasn't all about a teenager just going through normal things and being depressed how some are.Stacy is the main character who is 15 years old and goes through quick a hard time for her freshman year in high school. My freshman year was nowhere near as eventful as her was, thankfully. The first problems she really has is boys. Her best friend is a guy, Chad, and he ends up liking her and kissing her but she doesn't feel that way so she lets him down and he really takes it the wrong way and they stop being friends. The guy who she likes does go after her at a party but that falls flat and I was sitting there thinking when she was going through it, what did you expect with a guy like that?!Then things start to get a bit more interesting with her sister, Becca. She is acting a bit weird and Stacy is worried about her but has no idea what to do, the same as Becca's boyfriend, Roman. I didn't see the twist with the sister but I was really interested in it.During the whole sister thing (I don't want to give any of it away) Stacy meets an older guy that also has some problems similar to Becca. They become kind of a thing and I have to admit I was really happy, until they weren't together any more. I admit I cried a bit at that and the things that followed. It was really sad and I didn't expect it totally.The book ended really good though and overall I really enjoyed the characters and the story. It was a pretty quick read (would have been quicker if I didn't do a lot other things in between) and it didn't disappoint for me.