Book Review: Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

5/5 stars

One of my favourite books of the year so far!

Trigger warning: sucidal thoughts

p. 254 'Our kisses still spin fireworks and raging snow'

We follow Juniper, 65 painful days after her sister, Camilla's death. Juniper finds an unsent letter from Cam to You on the first day back to school and this sets off a snowball effect throughout the school year. We see Juniper as she makes new friends, rekindles old friendships and stands up to the school bully. She always has the right intentions but sometimes she doesn't take the easiest path to get there which causes conflict between the characters.

I love Juniper's friendship group, each have secrets of their own that connects them. Kody, Angela, Nate, Sponge (Lawrence) and Brand. Each character was well thought out and it was easy to tell them apart. I didn't support Juniper's relationship the whole time because it was toxic in parts, however, the love interest redeemed themselves in the end.

This book was beautifully written and I couldn't read it quick enough!