A review by fyerin
Analee, in Real Life by Janelle Milanes

2.0

Maybe more 3.5? I liked this book, but I feel like message was kinda skewed. Analee was a pretty complex character and while the other characters were not one dimensional, they weren't multi faceted either. I wish we understood Seb more and spend more time with Harris and the online gaming thing. I feel that that part of the story was like she's a Gomer who likes her online persona better then her real life one, but that didn't happen in the book?

I liked the ending, cause she SPOILER didn't end up with anyone and Seb seemed to crawl back to Chloe (who told him she wanted to get back together when he was with Analee? Talk about a bitch move! And also slept with him!! Idk not cool).
I didn't like the you have to fix yourself and be ok with yourself before you date thing it seemed to push, cause you can work on yourself and be in a relationship. If you want till youre perfect to be with someone, youll never be with anyone. I wish it had been more I'm not ready to be with you, but the whole time Analee talked about how she wished she could be with him but needed to work on herself. Idk rubbed me the wrong way.

Also I cried like 200 times cause if you even mention a dead parent to me in any context or media I will cry. Now my eyes hurt. Rude af tbh.