Fragile Bones: Harrison & Anna by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis: One is a fifteen-year-old boy with an uncanny ability to recite every bone in the skeletal system whenever he gets anxious ― and that happens a lot. The meaning of “appropriate behaviour” mystifies him: he doesn’t understand most people and they certainly don’t understand him.
The other is a graduating senior with the world at her feet. Joining the Best Buddies club at her school and pairing up with a boy with high-functioning autism is the perfect addition to her med school applications. Plus, the president of the club is a rather attractive, if mysterious, added attraction.
Told in the alternating voices of Harrison and Anna, Fragile Bones is the story of two teens whose lives intertwine in unexpected ways.
My Review: When I started this book I thought maybe I was a little too old for it, but that went away when I realized it was just a regular story about a girl and a boy. There aren’t many books with people with autism in them, so I thought I’d give it a shot, and it was a short but nice change of pace. Anna is very patient, and I was glad everything wrapped up nicely in the end for her. The writing style was simple. Nothing overly exciting happened, but nothing too bad happened either which is good. I really liked the cover for this book, that’s actually why I picked this book out. I appreciated the rotating points of view between Anna and Harrison, it kept things interesting throughout the story. All in all, it was a good book, but I probably won’t read it again, and if I find the rest of the books I’ll read them, but I won’t seek them out. Thanks for reading.
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