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rom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shopaholic series comes a terrific blend of comedy, romance, and psychological recovery in a contemporary YA novel sure to inspire and entertain.

An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she’s never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just Audrey but also her entire family.

Irene and I will be reading this next month if anyone wants to join us :)

Y'all got arcs?

I might end up joining, but it's my birthday on the tenth (I'm totally going to get distracted by new books) and I have a couple of really busy days right after that. We'll see!

Yeah Jackie, well I have anyway, I got an ebook arc from netgalley :)

No problem Mia :)

I'll be reading this with you guys. :)

chapter 1 (view spoiler)[ "I'll read to deaf people."
I found that really funny! (hide spoiler)]

chapter 1 - this is really funny! (view spoiler)[ "you might hurt the car! maybe drop it a little to the left?" (hide spoiler)]

So i thought I'd start this before going to bed because i didn't have anything else to read. It's a little annoying that there isn't any chapters or at least in my copy there isn't.

15% (view spoiler)[ there's a lot of name drops, big bang theory, harry potter etc. which is usually okay but the author is being a little to persistent. The writing style is all over the place but I'm just getting used to it. It is funny so far, especially when Audrey started filming and the parents didn't realise! (hide spoiler)]

I started before bed too and I don't have any chapters either. (view spoiler)[ Her mum is a little OVer The Top about that darn computer game! (hide spoiler)]

Yeah mine doesn't have chapters either and the sentences are a bit broken haha oh well never mind!

10% (view spoiler)[ I feel really sorry for Audrey. She's obviously suffering. I wonder what those girls did to her? (hide spoiler)]

13% (view spoiler)[ I think a party would be a disaster (hide spoiler)]

18% (view spoiler)[ frank totally got their mother with that run business! she came out of it the worst off! (hide spoiler)]

40% (view spoiler)[ blimey. he's been getting up at 2 and playing til 6! that's nuts! (hide spoiler)]

45% (view spoiler)[ I can't believe she actually threw it out the window! (hide spoiler)]

53% (view spoiler)[ her mother is taking this a bit too far now. I can't beleive Linus just talked her into meeting him at starbucks! (hide spoiler)]

55% (view spoiler)[ the names thing at starbucks was funny! (hide spoiler)]

58% (view spoiler)[ ah! that was so sweet with the kiss on paper! (hide spoiler)]

16% - (view spoiler)[ Audrey's mum is a bit mad! Shouting all the time. Reminds me a bit of my mum with her daily mail! (hide spoiler)]

42% (view spoiler)[ So at first I thought Audrey's mum was funny but now it's just a little over the top. Even though I don't agree that Frank should be playing video games so much I think it's typical behaviour these days from teenagers. Audrey is actually quite relatable and I hope that she opens up to Linus more. (hide spoiler)]

30% (view spoiler)[ I really want to know what those girls did to Audrey! Linus seems a nice person, wanting to make sure Audrey doesn't completely freak out when he's in the house (hide spoiler)]

45% (view spoiler)[ still can't believe she chucked his computer out of the window! (hide spoiler)]

Amy wrote: "42% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ She was a bit over the top! the laptop out of the window was jsut crazy. (hide spoiler)]

Rachel wrote: "45% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ I couldn't believe that either! totally nuts! (hide spoiler)]

58% (view spoiler)[ aww Linus is really cute!! Talking through notes through the letterbox :) and the kiss on paper! (hide spoiler)]

73% (view spoiler)[ wow Starbucks guy was rude!! Audrey seems to be doing really well, I've got a feeling she'll have a setback though (hide spoiler)]

94% (view spoiler)[ Linus is emigrating?! (hide spoiler)]

Rachel wrote: "73% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ he was really rude! I'm glad Linus pissed him off! (hide spoiler)]

Rachel wrote: "94% [spoilers removed]"

Nope!

I just turned the page and saw she was joking! Thank god haha!

She had me too for a minute. I was like 'where did that come from? have i missed something??'

That was me, I panicked and then continued and thought phew! I just finished, I thought it was a really cute read :) and I loved all the stuff with her being ill, although we didn't really find out what had happened to her at school

I was a bit disappointed with that too (view spoiler)[ I wanted to know exactly what had happened! I was pleased that we didn't get it info dumped on us at the start, but I had hoped that we'd find out eventually! (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ yeah I thought that it would slowly get explained to Linus or something, but it just didn't really come up that much. Or I thought it might come up when they met up with Izzy but again it didn't (hide spoiler)]

Rachel wrote: "[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ you expected them to say something like - you were the one who held her down and filled her mouth with shaving foam!
so that we'd know what had happened, but they said nothing! (hide spoiler)]

Will be reading this on the weekend! I'm looking forward to it!! :)

It's good! I think you'll really enjoy it ☺

I hope so! Sophie has never disappointed :)

4%
(view spoiler)[Daily Mail is definitely a black hole. Audrey's family sound dysfunctional haha but loads if you tubers are gaming and making money out of it so it's not too unrealistic

I'm guessing Land of Conquerors is similar to starcraft with its tournaments! (hide spoiler)]

I figured it might be like world of warcraft. don't they have tournaments for that?

17%
(view spoiler)[Audrey and franks mum is so bossy! I know she means well though

I think Dr Sarah's idea of filming a video is a great idea! It was so funny when audrey recorded her mum and dads private conversation

She can film Linus! He seems like a sweet guy
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35%
(view spoiler)[I love the inside joke about Rhubarb :) (hide spoiler)]

72%
(view spoiler)[Linus and Audrey are so cute together and it made Audrey better because she's now realising what her mum gave up for her. They got together pretty quick though

I wonder what happened with the girls in the past that made her this way. It's nice that Audrey reached out to Natalie (hide spoiler)]

86%
(view spoiler)[I hope Audrey doesn't relapse. What did Tasha do to her (bullying obviously but I want details!) All shall be clear soon

It's so funny how their Mum's trying to control Frank's life by removing the gaming but he's good at running and he scored high in Chemistry. It's not like it's ruining his life! (hide spoiler)]

Rachel wrote: "16% - [spoilers removed]"

Her parents are so funny :D

25%
(view spoiler)[simplest solution to cut Frank off gaming would've been to just disconnect the net! All this drama with chargers and what not haha. Story is a bit over the place at the moment. Can't really see where this is headed. Audrey seemed to have experienced something bad and it triggers her anxiety. I wonder what happened. (hide spoiler)]

Christina wrote: "35%
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Add orange segment smile to that!

Rachel wrote: "That was me, I panicked and then continued and thought phew! I just finished, I thought it was a really cute read :) and I loved all the stuff with her being ill, although we didn't really find out..."

Aw no answers?

Sarah wrote: "45% [spoilers removed]"

Lol I can't believe it!

50% (view spoiler)[Feels like the main character is Anne at this point. "I hear you" The family drama is amusing "I hear you" (hide spoiler)]

Rachel wrote: "73% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[As if he could get any work done! I loved it when Linus got over there and made a scene XD (hide spoiler)]

Finished
(view spoiler)[Izzy and her parents were ridiculous. They wanted to rid themselves of guilt by performing a poem when all they should have done was simply say sorry. They weren't worth Audrey's time at all.

I liked Frank being a supportive brother and it was funny how he was fit and got good grades despite being addicted to video games XD

The apologies made by Audrey's family to Linus was funny.

The ending was quite abrupt, I was not really prepared to leave the fun times I had with Audrey's family :') (hide spoiler)]