The Anatomy of a Misfit By Andrea Portes

SUMMARY :This emotional, hilarious, devastating, and ultimately triumphant YA debut, based on actual events, recounts one girl’s rejection of her high school’s hierarchy—and her discovery of her true self in the face of tragedy.

Fall’s buzzed-about, in-house favorite.

Outside, Anika Dragomir is all lip gloss and blond hair—the third most popular girl in school. Inside, she’s a freak:... (more)


My favorite quote: “I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit



My Review: This book and I have a love-hate relationship. This book was nice and all, but the characters and the plot were just a little hard to relate to. The characters were more than a bit vile sometimes. I do think some teens will really relate to and like Anika (the main character). I think she was very negative and sort of a snob in her own way. She may have had a rough life ( lots of us do ), but that made a shell on her that made me just not really care for her character enough to want things to be better for her. She did grow on me, but some of her decisions made me want to smack the living daylight out of her.

 The descriptions of people were hard to relate to. I don't think there was a positive description, except maybe Anika's mother. And some of  the things that was said/written in this book was really offensive. The whole town seems to have something against all black people, foreigners, and anyone with a religion. Until the very end, it was all first world problems and angst.

I am a little mad at myself, because despite everything wrong with the book I still sort of enjoyed the book. I only find myself wishing that the beginning was as good as the last 30-40 pages of the book.