The Fragile Ordinary by Samantha Young

The Fragile Ordinary by Samantha Young
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I picked this up for the social anxiety rep. Unfortunately, it failed to deliver.

Yeah sure at first I was totally seeing myself in Comet, someone who doesn't know how to stand up for herself and prefers fictional worlds to the real one.

But then it took a turn.

She meets a boy and she finds her voice and the allure of the real world.

I'm all for getting over social anxiety but because of a boy?

After the boy comes along she's much more like a normal teenager and the book gets sort of boring. There's nothing compelling about the story anymore.

My other issue with the book was the Scottish accents. Scottish accents are the one accent I hate to read. I either try for way too long to understand what it saying or I gloss over it and don't understand what they're saying. I also don't understand why Comet and her friends and her parents didn't have Scottish accents? Did only the secondary characters have Scottish accents? That makes no sense.

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