Don't Even Think About It

Kind of a Mean Girls meets X-Men type thing, which should totally be my jam. You kind of have to overlook the fact that these kids getting telepathy from the flu shot makes no sense, and the mechanics of how their telepathy works doesn't make sense either? Ehhh.

My favorite part of this book was Olivia, whose social anxiety is helped by getting telepathy because she used to worry that people were judging her all the time, but after being able to read minds she realizes that most people are just thinking about themselves and not noticing what Olivia is doing, which I think is actually a really great message for a teen book to convey.

Some of the other characters are less well developed, but, overall I thought it was a pretty quick, fun read.

Will prob appeal to younger fans of Gossip Girl and the like–there's a lot of lifestyle porn about exclusive Sweet 16 parties and the like. There's talk of drinking and sex, but nothing terribly explicit. (Only one of the telepathic kids has had sex so far and the others are super curious about it, and there's talk of smuggling alchol into parties in the past, but they all swear off drinking for fear it will mess with their telepathy.)