A review by nomomstayandread
Better Than People by Roan Parrish
4.0
I’m always so pleasantly surprised when main characters have serious mental health issues that are not miraculously healed by the power of the other love interest, if that makes sense.
Simon has debilitating anxiety and cannot people. After a few false starts, he’s able to build a friendship and more with Jack who is laid up with a broken leg and like 15 animals he needs help caring for.
I was really happy that Simon was still the same person at the beginning and end but just settled with his people he loves and his menagerie of pets.
BUT. Why did Jack treat Charlie like that through the whole book? Charlie is a cinnamon roll of the first order.
Simon has debilitating anxiety and cannot people. After a few false starts, he’s able to build a friendship and more with Jack who is laid up with a broken leg and like 15 animals he needs help caring for.
I was really happy that Simon was still the same person at the beginning and end but just settled with his people he loves and his menagerie of pets.
BUT. Why did Jack treat Charlie like that through the whole book? Charlie is a cinnamon roll of the first order.