How Hard Can Love Be? (The Spinster Club Series #2)

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I know I'm a little late to the Holly Bourne party, and I'm sorry about that. After reading spectacular book, I definitely need more of her books! I definitely need to support more UKYA authors, and Holly is perfect for this. one of my favourite things was how the author gave us an insight into evie's mind. she gives things titles like "bad thought" and it'll describe the actual feelings shes going through i've been hearing so many amazing things about this book from my friends so naturally my expectations were REALLY high and still yet it managed to give me so many emotions and teach me so many things

You can't help but feel for Evie, who just wants to live her life without freaking out over every little thing, the way she sees others living their lives. But as an adult, you're like "EVIE, GIRL. YOU NEED TO STOP. NO, SERIOUSLY. PLEASE STOP. OH MY GOD YOU POOR BABY WHY HAS NOBODY NOTICED YOUR SELF DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR PLEASE START TAKING YOUR MEDICATION AGAIN." The girls are amazing! Evie, Amber and Lottie form a gang called the The Spinster Club to help figure out how to be a feminist. They aim to stay true to themselves, and not lose their personality or their friends while trying to impress guys, and at the same time not being ball breakers! It was such a fun theme but also very powerful and inspiring. Amber and Kyle are both really well described characters as well. We know so much about the two of them, as well as all the other characters, and the book is written in a realistic and accurate manner. I loved seeing how these two seemingly incompatible characters’ stories intertwined with each others, and it really made this book. I wish I could join the Spinster Club even though I am happily married because I wholeheartedly agree with a lot of the three girls’ logic. I think this is the true meaning of feminism-everything that is printed in this book because I think a lot of people mistake feminism as anything that shuns men’s vital role in women’s lives. I learned a lesson about not judging people until you’ve found out whether or not they’ve read Harry Potter.” Lol!

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Holly’s got a really unique writing style that’s both hilarious and serious, one that knows when to be serious but also can lighten up, which is perfect for this book. It’s one you can read and laugh about, but you can also expect some really serious themes about family troubles, relationships and feminism from.

I adore the whole feminist aspect in this series. It's completely retaking the word, and the word 'spinster' for that, and that's what this generation of teenagers need. Feminism is such a 'dirty' word, which is ridiculous when it means 'equality'. I can't recommend these books enough for today's teenagers, with the hope that, someday, being a feminist will not be something so controversial. Ooh this was so lovely. It was adorable, funny, heartwarming & breaking, had a wonderful cast of character and delved into topics not always discussed in YA AND it was set in a US summer camp. What more could you want? This book was hard not to fall in love with, in many different ways and by using many different relationship examples, it talks heavily about the effects unrequited love can have on an individual. This is talked about most within the complicated non-existent relationship she has with her alcoholic mother. This storyline had me gripped as it gave me a new perspective on a situation of someone who I used to be close to and really gave me a new sense of empathy for them. Am I Normal Yet? was one of my favourites when I first read it, for so many reasons and I'd been putting this off because I was worried that it would disappoint me in comparison but it didn't, at all. In fact, I loved it for so many totally different reasons. It wasn't so difficult or heavy for me to read and it combined so many things I love in a book (give me all the US road trip and summer camp narratives please!) Leirikesää mutkistaa myös yltiösöpö Kyle, joka huhujen mukaan saa kaikki tytöt rakastumaan itseensä, joten miksipä Amber olisi yhtään erityinen tapaus... Vai voisiko olla sittenkin? Mutta voiko romanssi toimia, jos pariskunnan välissä on kokonainen valtameri? Onneksi Amber saa kuitenkin taustatukea ystäviltään, feministisen Vanhapiika-keskustelukerhon jäseniltä, jotka ovat häneen yhteydessä Skypen kautta.

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I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for their next book to read. Holly’s an amazing writer, and she’s only gone and done it again with How Hard Can Love Be? yes the main focus is evie's OCD and her thought process and trying to hide her illness while juggling school and boys and her family This story missed the mark for me a bit because of too many side characters and it was just too meta. Too ironic. The characters know that they shouldn't be obsessing over boys so much, but they do anyway. I mean they literally discuss in the narrative that they should not be doing this while complaining boys are trash. The humor I think is known as "British humor" and it's kinda close to my type of humor, but not really. The humor added a very distinct tone to this story that I've never seen in any other book. I did get a very interesting message out of this story.

Speaking of Lottie's book, I'm dying to get my hands on that. I feel like she is my favourite of the Spinsters, even though I haven't read her PoV yet. Out of them all, Amber has been my least favourite so far, but I still adored her. Bourne just can't help writing amazing characters! Where it fell flat for me was in the writing - it was so full of cliches that made it seem quite ironic that the books attempts to look behind the common misconceptions - and cliches - surrounding mental health issues.This book definitely found a place in my heart and I now need to go and read the rest in the series, and her other books. If you love a little bit of cheesy highschool romance I think you will love this but also if you like books that allow you to almost submerge yourself in the role of the character this very much does so. I now feel the need to run away to America to explore more, the little road trips in this book just sounded so gorgeous. The characters all felt very real! The family dynamics, the side characters were all well developed and I loved the main protagonist. She went through such amazing growth! PDF / EPUB File Name: How_Hard_Can_Love_Be_-_Holly_Bourne.pdf, How_Hard_Can_Love_Be_-_Holly_Bourne.epub It’s amusing watching a UK author write about the States. Aided by her travels across the country, Bourne includes enough geography and some rich descriptions of Yosemite National Park. She also has a lot of fun in the vocabulary and cultural differences between the US and the UK (“poo-dank” hehe). I think she slips up at one point—she has Kyle talk about “year groups”, which should be grades in the US—but for the most part, the “British fish in American waters” trope is strong here. To her credit, Bourne doesn’t overuse it: Amber spends most of the novel at the camp run by her mother and stepfather, so we don’t see her interacting too much with the rest of American society. After reading Am I Normal Yet, the first thing that came to my mind was: ”I have to get the second book ASAP!!!❤️❤️❤️”

Wow! Am I Normal Yet by Holly Bourne slammed me to the ground with all the feels. It broke my heart, made me roar with laughter, made me determined to fight more about feminist issues and most of all enlightened me about OCD. Everyone’s on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there’s no “normal” way of dealing with it. There’s only what’s normal to you.” confessionsofabooklover (25 July 2015). "Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 May 2018. It was always going to be very hard to top Am I Normal Yet?, because I loved that book so much. It had such a great main character, and pretty damn accurate portrayal of anxiety and OCD, that I couldn't help but enjoy it.

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Bourne is represented by The Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency. [3] Her debut novel Soulmates was published in September 2013 by Usborne. [4] The characters were so fun and realistic. Evie's best friends, Amber and Lottie are great characters and I loved the interactions between these three. They have a great friendship. They discuss everything together, from gossip to actual deep things. That is the girl friendship I want to see more of! I think there’s like a gender stereotype, The Nice Guy , you know? Girls are so judgmental about it. If you’re a nice guy, you’re basically bland and boring and they don’t want to be with you. They say, ‘I love bad boys’, and then look really proud of themselves for falling for people they know are douches.”