Unfolding by Jonathon Friesen : ARC #BookReview

Title: Unfolding
Author: Jonathon Friesen
Publisher: Blink
Published Date: January 31st 2017
Genre: YA
Page Count:288  
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Goodreads Summary: 

Jonah wishes he could get the girl, but he’s an outcast and she’s the most perfect girl he knows.

And their futures seemed destined to fork apart: Jonah’s physical condition is debilitating, and epileptic seizures fill his life with frustration. Whereas Stormi is seemingly carefree, and navigates life by sensing things before they happen. And her most recent premonition is urging her to leave town.

When Stormi begs Jonah for help, he finds himself swept into a dark mystery his small town has been keeping for years. And the answers Stormi needs about her own past could possibly destroy everything Jonah has ever known—including his growing relationship with Stormi herself.
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 My Review:

Originally I received this as an e-arc from NetGalley and the publisher, but I ended up reading this in physical form from the library.

Jonah has MS and Epilepsy and lives in a small town in Oklahoma that is kind of strange. He is also in love with his best friend Stormi who most of the town is slightly afraid of. Stormi is a character that while we do get to kind of know, we don't fully ever know anything about her sadly. Which means that I couldn't really understand their friendship or what brought them together besides the fact that they were both outcasts and lived next door to each other.

Jonah's shortcoming due to his disability are ones that he gets really annoyed and frustrated with, which I understand and I felt that part to be very real. Yet his whole nice guy act towards Stormi and how he wanted more but she didn't want to give more to him made her try to seem like the bad guy. Which made me not like Jonah very much, which was hard because I wanted to like him. Plus he constantly brought up things that weren't Stormi's fault in order to try and guilt her into answering a question or being with him. Not okay.

Honestly I'm really struggling with what to say without giving to much away, because I didn't really like this book. Not only did I not like Jonah's attitude, but the whole town in general was just strange in general. I mean why do we need a super prison just for one man, why not send him to another one? Oh yeah, that's right because this town has more secrets and there all about ready to come out and that scares the elders.

For me, I just found this book frustrating, but it was nice to see MS and Epilepsy in a YA novel.