Review: Don’t Panic
Lindsay Paige is back with her newest novel, ‘Don’t Panic’. Samantha who is a high school student, started to experience strange symptoms. She would suffer from trembling hands, cold sweats, & overwhelming nausea that would come over her at any given moment. Samantha’s teachers were less than supportive and her own mother doesn’t believe her symptoms are real. She is challenged as making these things up to avoid school.
During school one day, she suffered a severe attack and ran into the restroom to hide and escape her classmates. She is following by a boy she doesn’t know and his reaching out to her was the first time she felt that someone might understand.
Her new found friend Eli is able to calm Samantha by encouraging her to think about her favorite songs. He seems genuine in his wanting to help her. She feels that everyone else has let her down but he believes her. However, Eli knows more about Sam’s issue than she could ever understand. He also has suffered panic attacks and had sought therapy to help him recover and overcome.
Because he’s more knowledgeable about this topic than she is, she takes his counsel carefully. Panic attacks may have been what brought them together, but will their relationship blossom into something else?
Lindsay Paige has written a fictional romance that can reach and help young people understand that they are not alone. In fact, panic attacks are more common that most people would believe. Young people today face challenges far beyond what we adults had to work through as teens.
This is well written book that fits the target audience perfectly. I received this eBook in order to write my review. No further compensation was provided. All opinions are my own and my be different than yours.
You can find Lindsay Paige’s works at book retailers such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
I would love to read this book. I have suffered from panic attacks and depression for over 19 years! Thanks for the great review on this book. This is going to be one that I am going to look for!
I will be adding this book to my GoodReads list. Thank you very much for your review!
This sounds like an interesting read! Going to add it to my want to read list on Goodreads
Julia @Mom on the Run x2
Sounds like an interesting read. I will certainly add this to my read list. Currently reading Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt. ~Sharon
This looks like a really fun YA read!
Sounds interesting. Thank you for hooking up with Thirsty for Thursday. Sorry for it taking a couple of days to get around to comment. It was a crazy week.
That’s great, Sherryl. I like it when issues people may face in real life can be presented or dealt with through fiction. I think it is sometimes a more palatable way to get help or inspiration.
YOu gave a lot of detail to this book…which makes me want to read it!!! However, I’m just not a book reader – 🙁 – but great post on book.
This is also available on Amazon for the Kindle. It is a quick read, one afternoon to work through it.