Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall

Luke starts spending time with Norah at her house and they develop a very close relationship but Norah fears that she is keeping him from doing things.This book is told from Norah's point of view. When Luke, the new next door neighbor, helps her get the groceries in her house, she really isn't quite sure what to do with him. She stays in her house and the only person that she really spends any time with is her mother. She has OCD and agoraphobia and her life is very different than most other teenagers. This was definitely a book worth reading.Norah is a teenage girl that spends a lot of her life in fear. It can be really hard to imagine the reality of living with mental illness as Norah does in this story but this book does a nice job of giving the reader something to think about. It really felt like an honest book and that is what I really liked about it. It wasn't a feel good novel and it could be almost hard to read at times. I thought that this book was very well done.

I chose to read this ARC provided by NetGalley and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Their relationship was cute, but it wasn't the real focus of this story.Overall, this wasn't a terribly deep book but it was utterly charming. It was nice that the budding relationship between Norah and Luke wasn't used as the vehicle to bring about magic change. Norah's Mum deserved an award for perfect parenting skills and the therapist came across as one of a kind as well. Louise Gornall has a great way with words making Norah come across as very witty and intelligent. The depiction of what it's like to live with mental health issues felt honest and real.Being in Norah's head and trying to follow her thought processes and her fears was quite alarming at times. It was obvious that the author knew what she was writing about. But one day she meets Luke, the boy who just moved in next door.I really enjoyed this.

Her contact with other people is limited to her mother, her therapist, and regular snooping on social media. Norah has been confined to her house for several years. A heartwarming young adult book written from the perspective of a teenage girl who is living with agoraphobia, anxiety, and OCD and uses self-harm to cope.

Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall