![]() ![]() As someone who's suffered mildly with these kinds of compulsions myself I can honestly say that you KNOW touching that object a set number of times in just the right way isn't going to keep your family safe, but it doesn't matter because you FEEL you have to do it. ![]() We get to FEEL his frustration and the ultimate futility of what he's doing. Reading through Adam's escalating cleansing rituals was painstaking, and that's great. It's about finding friendship and letting other people in so you can face your own personal demons. ![]() The love story is there, but it's not really about that. The main character, Adam, is torn between his single mum (a hoarder with her own mental illness) and her father and step family - especially the overbearing but exceptinally vulnerable little step-brother who's struggling with similar issues to Adam. There's a support group full of teenagers who all have different coping mechanisms and cleansing rituals for a variety of problems, mostly revolving in some way around anxiety. I didn't expect it to be a pretty raw and emotionally charged look at OCD. I received an arc of this book for review from the publisher, and what I knew about it going in was pretty basic - boy falls for girl but has his own issues to deal with first. ![]()
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