Starlee's Heart by Angel LawsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well Written Peek Into The Head of An Anxious Teenager
I’d probably give this 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.
Starlee suffers from anxiety. She had a really bad patch when she was in middle school when suffered with an ill-suited medication and bullying. Her mother pulled her out of school and since then she’s been isolated, lonely and afraid of the world.
After an incident Starlee’s mother decides that she should go and spend the Summer at her grandmother’s in the middle of the desert, in a small tourist town. Away from her mother for the first time in her life and supervised by a grandmother with a much more lax supervisory style, Starlee has to start making her own decisions about her life and it’s hard, especially when the four boys next door seem to want to be her friend.
This is a well balanced look at the effect that anxiety has on young people and those that love them. It looks at the difficulties the parents face and how the decisions they make can have a long term impact on their child and their relationship with them.
The writer describes the area, in which Starlee is staying, beautifully. It made me want to visit, because it sounds stunning, and a little bit strange, but welcoming. The landscape described by the writer drew me in and it became part of the story, as it helped to start Starlee on her path to reclaiming her life.
The characters were all interesting in different ways. They all had depth and while on surface may be stereotypes, they weren’t as Starlee started to get to know them better and their layers were revealed.
It’s a really interesting story and I look forward to reading the next book in the series to see what happens next, as there is a cliffhanger.
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