Total Constant Order
by Crissa-Jean Chappell (Goodreads author!)
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Reviewed by Cana Rensberger for TeensReadToo.com
Rhythm is the pulse of life. Everything has rhythm. The waves in the ocean, cars buzzing down the highway, the drip of the rain after a spring shower, the pencil scraping across our paper, even our own pulse in our ears, late at night when all should be quiet.
Fin doesn't know quiet. For her, the rhythm has become more than a beat. It's an obsession. It's good luck to turn a light on three times -- the wrong number could be deadly. The roar...more
Rhythm is the pulse of life. Everything has rhythm. The waves in the ocean, cars buzzing down the highway, the drip of the rain after a spring shower, the pencil scraping across our paper, even our own pulse in our ears, late at night when all should be quiet.
Fin doesn't know quiet. For her, the rhythm has become more than a beat. It's an obsession. It's good luck to turn a light on three times -- the wrong number could be deadly. The roar...more
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
Depressed Teenagers
The cynical, self-absorbed, depressed teenager has worked for other authors, but in this case it's a completely joyless experience. Accurate, perhaps, but joyless. The narrator hero is flat-out lousy company. The romance might have saved it, but the boyfriend character is a patchwork of urban teen cliches and their relationship is based on mutual depression and ennui. As a "problem novel" about teen depression, OCD, and the side-effects of Paxil, it's just fine, and perhaps a must-read...more
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Read in January, 2008
This ya novel takes you right into the mind of a teen girl with OCD as she struggles to ignore the compulsions that drive her and survive the halls of her unforgiving high school.
I found the details of Frances' disorder both fascinating and tedious...a fitting description of OCD itself. Worth reading if you like the "odd girl out" type of story as I also liked the fact that her friendship with an equally strange and afflicted classmate, Thayer, blossomed into a deep friendship and...more
I found the details of Frances' disorder both fascinating and tedious...a fitting description of OCD itself. Worth reading if you like the "odd girl out" type of story as I also liked the fact that her friendship with an equally strange and afflicted classmate, Thayer, blossomed into a deep friendship and...more
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Read in March, 2007
I'll probably adjust my review of this one after some time has passed. The plot was engaging, - it's your standard, "teenage girl (Fin) doesn't fit in and her parents don't understand her and she has problems but a Cool Boy (Thayer) shows up and she sees the light" kind of plot. I wasn't convinced by the Thayer's hipster dialogue, but that might be because I'm old.
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Read in April, 2008
Ooooo, I really like this one. At first I couldn't decide if the author was writing a disjointed, flighty thing, or if she was being sort of brilliant by making the actual book OCD-like. By the end, I'm convinced that author was intentionally invoking the discomfort and awkwardness of OCD, so that it's affecting on lots of different levels. Very well done.
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Read in January, 2008
I enjoyed reading this book and getting a look into the mind of a girl with OCD. I liked her journey and felt sympathetic to her. I had a harder time with Thayer, as he seemed to distant, and I never really got attached to him. But I loved the main character, who is the most important anyway. A solid debut!
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of "problem" YA fiction, psych disorders, poetic prose
Refreshing to see this kind of poetic prose in YA literature. It's something that's sorely lacking, especially these days.
However, the book tries too hard to be "cool" and to hit an emotional chord with the reader.
However, the book tries too hard to be "cool" and to hit an emotional chord with the reader.
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Read in April, 2008
I learned that I have my own version of OCD. This book pretty cool. Thayer brings out the best of Fin. the only thing i was disappointed in was how it ends. Otherwise it was cool
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Read in July, 2008
This was really good. It also made me aware of how common OCD might be. It was very interesting to read a book about people who have problems and how they deal with them.
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Read in February, 2008
Main character is a misfit due to OCD and depression. The story is a bit choppy and the resolution is not really believable. I enjoyed "Not as crazy as I seem" better.
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The narrator, Finn, struggles with OCD after her family moves from Vermont to Florida and her parents divorce.
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