The New Normal

The New Normal had a strange rhythm to it. Plot developments I expected to be explored never were.

For instance, Tamar gives her late sister's guitar to a drug dealer to pay off a debt her sisters – they were twins and died together – has incurred. For the whole book, I was expecting her parents to confront her about the guitar's disappearance. Never happened.

What I did like is that I'd never read a book before with a heroine who had to deal with hair loss. That's a new story for me. And a girl in high school? Whew. But it turned out to be, like much of the story, not explored as much as I would expect or watch.

Tamar's parents also seemed quote real to me. Her love interest and that story was told in a really low key way, and I sorta loved that. Here is a guy who is her best friend, accepts her who she is, and they make sense together.

I suppose I'd just have to say that the muted quality of the book lead my reaction to be a little muted as well.