What is your opinion?
From Popular To Freak
"I liked how this book shows us that things aren't as worse as you expect them to be. I like this book because it shows that it doesn't matter what other people think about you, what matters is how your feeling.I would recommend this book for 12-14 year olds or higher. I was really impressed how you showed Julianne's overthinking and showed the real reality of the situation. "
Great writing style
"The first thing I noticed about this story was the narrator's voice -- I loved it! From the first few paragraphs, I could already tell that this was a feminist, strong-willed, independent woman with a sense of style. While most writers fall back on cliches when portraying a popular girl, making them snobby or ignorant, this girl certainly isn't, and that only makes her more realistic. Even after those first few paragraphs, the writing style continued to be strong. There's a nice pace, a good balance between description and dialogue, and the descriptions are nice and create a vivid picture. Only later do I find out the main character has anxiety. While I would've liked to see more emotion in this part (just a description of what's going on in her head), I think the scene was nice. It showed that anxiety can be a disturbance, popping up at any time, that this isn't the first time Julianne has suffered an anxiety attack, so she knows exactly what to do, and that she feels lonely in her suffering, not only because she keeps it from others. Overall, this was a great story, but there are some possibilities for improvement. The first is the summary: from it, I couldn't deduce that this story was about anxiety, so it came to me as a surprise, while it is what the entire story is about. Also, readers would want to know if it is about anxiety -- for some, it is a trigger, so they can stay away from it and guard their own mental health, and for others, it helps to understand anxiety a little more and bring awareness. A second point I want to address is the length of the story. There is so much going on and so much to be told, but four chapters simply isn't long enough to tell that entire story. Instead, the further I got into the story, the more rushed it felt, and things like writing style started to suffer from it, too, because the writer didn't put as much effort into descriptions and the like anymore. That is such a shame, because the idea behind the story is really good, the writer is capable of an excellent writing style, and -- what might seem like a minor detail, but always worth mentioning -- there weren't any grammatical errors."
