OCD Love Story

The title of this caught my eye when I was reading reviews of upcoming books, and I was kind of like, “Ughh great somebody who thinks it's cute to wash their hands and label it OCD” but then I read the review and it's about characters who have ACTUAL OCD and go to group therapy for their OCD (which manifests in different ways than just handwashing and tidiness). So that made me decide to buy it for the library, and then I decided to read it because the cover looks really cool? That is the story of how a professional reader such as myself chooses her books.

Anyway, I really liked it! I liked Bea as an unreliable, but accurate narrator–the way she is in some ways very honest and in other ways unaware about what she's actually doing, and we have to piece things together from what people say to/about her. We learn that Bea's OCD manifests partially in her needing to check in on particular strangers, to know they're okay–we learn that others call this behavior stalking, but Bea can't help herself. It all comes to head in a pretty intense way :O

Overall I recommend this as a unique teen romance and/or as a psychological thriller almost. Also, give it to anyone who says “lol I'm so OCD I always have hand sanitizer in my bag.”