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Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club Series #1)

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There's also lots of relevant feminist ideas woven throughout the book; mostly, this is well done but sometimes it does feel a little bit too rammed in your face. Overall I'm in love with this book and it tipped my TBR over the edge, as I now need to read all the Holly Bourne books. Books that acknowledge or explore mental health issues can help to increase awareness, encourage dialogue, reduce stigma and develop real understanding.

Now, I've never had any interaction with OCD, so please correct me if I offend anyone - I really don't mean to. The Spinster Club series has also inspired the formation of Spinster Clubs across the UK and Ireland. And for someone who has generalized anxiety, I was able to fully relate to Evie, the MC, and I can definitely say that it was portrayed correctly.

Bourne makes Evie a relatable character to many teenage girls, with her interest in boys and relationships, her excitement about going on a first date and going to parties with her friends. It’s something that Evie, Amber, and Lottie come up with on their own, together, their own unique brand of feminism. Soon, Evie is going to parties, on dates and making new friends, but as she becomes closer to the new people in her life, she finds it harder to keep her OCD hidden. She meets her therapist once a week, finally cuts her worries list down to a single page, and is lowering her medication for OCD and anxiety.

She then spent six years working as an editor, a relationship advisor, and general ‘agony aunt’ for a youth charity – helping young people with their relationships and mental health. The spinsters still crush over cute guys, and they make some mistakes along the way, which leads to conflicts among themselves and with others people. When she turned thirty, Holly wrote her first adult novel, examining the intensified pressures on women once they hit that landmark. Her three 16-year-old protagonists are fully capable of having intense philosophical and theoretical discussions on a high level of gender roles, just as real-life 16-year-old girls are—while simultaneously lapsing into debates about boys and friends, just as real-life 16-year-old girls are. I’m also very happy with the anxiety and OCDs representation, which I found to be perfect and I never read a review saying the contrary.

She has a plan: not let anyone know she was the 'girl who went crazy', make friends, and maybe get a boyfriend? They created the 'Spinster Club', which consisted of them preaching about topics (where they came across as naive and bitchy), talking about boys and tearing other girls down. The groundbreaking and bestselling first Spinster Club novel from YA star Holly Bourne - "A brutal and brilliant takedown of how we talk about mental illness, feminism, and friendship. Evie, to a large extent a teenager right outta the books, suffers from OCD, she definitely has been worse and is on her way to recovery, but sometimes slaying that nasty demon in her ear gives her da damn hard time. Evie's relationships won't have you dreaming of happily-ever-afters or swooning dizzily about the guys in her life.

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