The Midnight Swimming Club

2.5 stars
I read The Midnight Swimming Club to fulfill a prompt in Becca's Bookopoly Readathon: Highest Rated. At the time, it was the highest rated book on my TBR Goodreads shelf.
The synopsis was very promising and I was excited to read it. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that this book is only 139 pages long. The heavy topics in this story were just too many for its page length. And it showed.
On the other hand, I still empathized with Patricia and all the things she was going through. It's an entertaining story. There were a few absurd, yet hilarious, scenes and a few heavy moments. I kept wishing during the entire story that Patricia would talk to her dad and/or her mom but this is a common issue in a YA contemporary book in my opinion. The fact that everything was happening too fast, meant that a lot of the heavy topics were not expanded enough. Overall, I liked the story but I wish it was fully developed.
TW: bullying, body shaming, peer pressure, divorce, suicide.