Julie Halpern; Get Well Soon

Gasp! It must be a miracle, because I'm back, and ready to review another book! To top that, it's actually going to be the book I said that I would review! This deserves a round of applause.

So, as I said last time, I will be reviewing Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern. This book was...okay. The main characters in this book were Abby, Justin, Sandy, and kind of Matt O.*. Abby is a girl living in a mental hospital because she is suffering from depression. Justin is Abby's love interest*, Sandy her roommate, and Matt O. is one of her friends there who has been at the hospital the longest amount of time - 6 months. The book is written in letters from Abby to her best friend at home. It's just about her life there. And her friends who are mental patients, but don't ever seem to have any very good mental disorders**. Not too exciting. The reason that this book was just okay, maybe even less than okay, was because on top of the whole thing being written in a not very good style, most of the plot was completely unrealistic. For example, her doctor, when she begins to cry and begs to go home, tells her to "Shut up, and stop being such a baby." There are other little things, such as her referring to her blankey*** only as her "trusty blankey," really bothered me, and took away from the book. I ended up finishing this book with some interest, but that could just be because I had nothing else to do.

The genre of this book is...I guess teen romance again? It seems as if it's trying**** to be a comedy as well...moving on, though. It's only 193 pages long. I would rate this book 3.9 out of 10. I, personally, did not like it, it took me forever to get through despite it's short length, and it was poorly written. So go ahead and read, or don't read, Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern. This has been another ingenious post from Great Books For Teen Girls*****!

The next book that I am reading is called An Abundance of Katherines by John Green.

*His name is Matt O., not Matt. Matt O..

**SOME make sense: depression, and hearing voices. The others, such as having seizures, or being pregnant, don't seem like something that would cause someone to go to a mental hospital.

***It's not the fact that she has a blankey that bothers me, it's the fact that she calls it her trusty blankey. Okay, actually, she's a sophomore in high school, she doesn't really need a blankey.

****Keyword trying. It was funny sometimes, but mainly, just annoying.

*****I think I'm just going to start signing off (hee hee) with these lame sayings from now on. They amuse me.