All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton

Publisher: Disney
Publication Date: May 9th 2019
Pages: 416
Review copy from publisher

Lennon Davis is a normal teenager that looks normal on the outside. Not everybody around her knows that she is suffering from severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. For example; number 5 gives her great security. If she does a certain thing like switching the light 5 times, maybe bad things won't happen to her or her family. Her family that just has moved  to their new house in an L.A. suburb, as her new stepmom who her dad married is an actress and brought her daughter Andrea with her and their little son Jacob after Lennon's mom passed away. Ten more flicks of the switch and maybe her new step family will accept her. Twenty-five more flicks and maybe she won’t cause any more of her loved ones to die. Fifty times more and then she can finally go to sleep.

Kyler Benton witnesses this pattern of lights from the safety of his treehouse in the yard next door. It is only there, hidden from the unwanted stares of his peers, that Kyler can fill his notebooks with lyrics that reveal the true scars of the boy behind the oversized hoodies and caustic humor. But Kyler finds that descriptions of blonde hair, sad eyes, and tapping fingers are beginning to fill the pages of his notebooks. Lennon, the lonely girl next door his father has warned him about, infiltrates his mind. Even though he has enough to deal with without Lennon’s rumored tragic past in his life, Kyler can’t help but want to know the truth about his new muse.

I truly had mixed feelings about this book. I liked the first part, but the story was dragging along at some points. At many points the things happening (or lack thereof..) didn't help the story further. If some chapters where shorter and some parts where put out, it would have been a story with more speed and some more excitement, which was completely missing right now. The only two incidents in the book seemed to be Lennon's stepsister doing something bad to put Lennon and Kyler in a bad light, and a car theft in the end. Further on the story is mostly set up on the dialogues between Lennon and Kyler or what they do or think, which is not always enough to keep a reader interested untill the end of the book.I truly wanted to like this book more than I did now!