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Definitions of Indefinable Things
by Whitney Taylor
Rating: 5/5
Genre: YA Contemporary
Recommended Age: 15+ (strong language, mature scenes, and trigger warnings for depression.)
I received a free copy of this book from KidLitExchange. All opinions are my own. Want to join? Check them out on their new website!
Reggie isn’t really a romantic: she’s been hurt too often, and doesn’t let people in as a rule. Plus, when you’re dealing with the Three Stages of Depression, it’s hard to feel warm and fuzzy. When Reggie meets Snake, though, he doesn’t give her much of a choice. Snake has a neck tattoo, a Twizzler habit, and a fair share of arrogance, but he’s funny, charming, and interested in Reggie.
Snake also has an ex-girlfriend who's seven months pregnant. Good thing Reggie isn’t a romantic.
Definitions of Indefinable Things follows three teens as they struggle to comprehend love, friendship, and depression—and realize one definition doesn’t always
cover it. – Amazon.com
I have never had a book that I received for free that I’ve pressed the “Add To My Wishlist” button on so fast! From the very beginning this book grabs you by your t-shirt collar and forces you to listen to it. It’s a beautiful book, but more of an open letter, to readers about what true depression and mental illness looks like. I thought the character development was amazingly well done and the plot developed amazingly well. The pacing wasn’t too fast or too slow, and flowed very well. The writing also flows very nicely and the writing is very easy to understand. For a book that seeks to be different than other contemporaries out there, it certainly does so.
The only complaint I have is a spoiler in the book. I will say that I do not like how the author wrote that scene and I don’t like how that scene was handled (and how that character was wrote, but hey she was very realistic to how some people feel about mental illness sadly enough). I also was not a big fan of the twist and the appearance of one of my most hated clichés in the YA genre, I did like how that was handled and how it was so strikingly different then other YA novels in that regard. Yes I realize how much this paragraph does not make sense, but I do NOT want to spoil this novel for you!
Verdict: I thought this book was amazingly well done and was so inspiring to someone who has struggled with depression and could be equally or more for younger readers who have went or are going through what Reggie is. The book also was very realistic and while some of the moments in the book might be too mature for younger readers, it deserves to be read. I also want to praise this book for its inclusion of diverse LGBT characters and in different families. I don’t often read books which have wide variety in what a family is and to read one that has different examples of how families can look like is very refreshing and real. I can’t tell you enough to read this book, so I’ll do it again: READ THIS BOOK!!!!!
Genre: YA Contemporary
Recommended Age: 15+ (strong language, mature scenes, and trigger warnings for depression.)
I received a free copy of this book from KidLitExchange. All opinions are my own. Want to join? Check them out on their new website!
Reggie isn’t really a romantic: she’s been hurt too often, and doesn’t let people in as a rule. Plus, when you’re dealing with the Three Stages of Depression, it’s hard to feel warm and fuzzy. When Reggie meets Snake, though, he doesn’t give her much of a choice. Snake has a neck tattoo, a Twizzler habit, and a fair share of arrogance, but he’s funny, charming, and interested in Reggie.
Snake also has an ex-girlfriend who's seven months pregnant. Good thing Reggie isn’t a romantic.
Definitions of Indefinable Things follows three teens as they struggle to comprehend love, friendship, and depression—and realize one definition doesn’t always
cover it. – Amazon.com
I have never had a book that I received for free that I’ve pressed the “Add To My Wishlist” button on so fast! From the very beginning this book grabs you by your t-shirt collar and forces you to listen to it. It’s a beautiful book, but more of an open letter, to readers about what true depression and mental illness looks like. I thought the character development was amazingly well done and the plot developed amazingly well. The pacing wasn’t too fast or too slow, and flowed very well. The writing also flows very nicely and the writing is very easy to understand. For a book that seeks to be different than other contemporaries out there, it certainly does so.
The only complaint I have is a spoiler in the book. I will say that I do not like how the author wrote that scene and I don’t like how that scene was handled (and how that character was wrote, but hey she was very realistic to how some people feel about mental illness sadly enough). I also was not a big fan of the twist and the appearance of one of my most hated clichés in the YA genre, I did like how that was handled and how it was so strikingly different then other YA novels in that regard. Yes I realize how much this paragraph does not make sense, but I do NOT want to spoil this novel for you!
Verdict: I thought this book was amazingly well done and was so inspiring to someone who has struggled with depression and could be equally or more for younger readers who have went or are going through what Reggie is. The book also was very realistic and while some of the moments in the book might be too mature for younger readers, it deserves to be read. I also want to praise this book for its inclusion of diverse LGBT characters and in different families. I don’t often read books which have wide variety in what a family is and to read one that has different examples of how families can look like is very refreshing and real. I can’t tell you enough to read this book, so I’ll do it again: READ THIS BOOK!!!!!