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A few things to note about Psych Major Syndrome: Leigh, the main character, is charmingly awkward, there’s a fantastic love interest, and the book is overall just hilarious. Psych Major Syndrome definitely gets bonus points for the college setting as well. If you’re one of those readers who likes the idea of the new adult genre but want more than the focus on the physical romance, I would totally recommend Psych Major Syndrome. It’s more in the vein of books like Just One Day by Gayle Foreman(though less serious than that one), and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Leigh struggles with her classes and assignments, taking the next step with her boyfriend, and dealing with frustrations like parking tickets. I think perhaps part of why this book has flown under the radar is that it was published before this push for college-aged stories–otherwise, I think it would be much better known than it currently is.

Leigh is. . . well, I can’t say she’s exactly a girl after my own heart, but she is adorkable and smart but also dumb at times and just a really well-rounded main character. Some of the things she says are so painfully awkward I couldn’t help but to feel for her, but she also has a great sense of humor(most of the time–there was a time or too when I thought the humor in this book was too mean, so it does lose a point for that). She makes great decisions at time, but is also completely unaware of problems at others, especially in her relationship with her high school boyfriend, Andrew. They’re at the same college, and a big focus of the book is the strain on their relationship, and how it manifest itself physically. I really loved this storyline. I loved how Leigh and Andrew had frank talks about intimacy, and how many issues that come along with that were addressed subtly over the over the course of the book.

But now only was Leigh great, most of the secondary characters in Psych Major Syndrome were wonderful as well. I loved Rebekah, the girl that Leigh ends up mentoring, and their discussions about life and boys and everything else. They warm up to each other and end up having a give-and-take relationship for sure. But one of my favorite characters in the book was Ami, Leigh’s roommate. Ami is an art major, and on paper it’s not an ideal roommate situation at all. But somehow, Ami and Leigh become great friends. It just reminded me so much of how I went into my freshman year of college totally blind to who my roommate would be, but all the adventures that ensued that year. Having a good roommate really can make all the difference, and while I loved the romantic storyline, I thought the roommate dynamic was the best in the entire book.

There were only two things that kept this from being a perfect read for me. One, during the middle of the book, there’s a Chinese character who is heavily stereotyped and played for laughs. In a book full of actual hilarious moments, it falls sadly short. The second minor issue was that while I did like the actual ending, the few chapters leading up to the end seemed to be there only to exaggerate the problem. I feel the resolution could have happened a chapter or two earlier than it did. Still, these complaints only slightly lessened my enjoyment of Psych Major Syndrome. After Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, it’s probably my favorite book with a college setting.


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Psych Major Syndrome Alicia Thompson Books Reviews

Darn, I am so disappointed. This book could have been awesome. It had potential. A great idea. A nice plot. Snark, witticism, fun, clever remarks. Swoon-worthy guys.
Then why did it start off so great, deceived me for three quarters of it and then suddenly went down the drain?

Leigh Nolan is attending her first year at Stiles College, a some, alternative and barely known school in California, where her high-school sweetheart and boyfriend, the overachieving, self-centered and ambitious Andrew is also attending. Leigh is considering majoring in psychology and is certainly very good at over-analyzing herself and everything around her, so much so that she misses the obvious what a jerk Andrew is and how intriguing is his roommate Nathan instead. A colorful cast of characters surround Lee; from her Latino artist roommate Ami, to the teenage-at-risk Rebekah, to the eternal boy scout advisor with the Spongebob Squarepants watch.

Mark page 286. That's when I started rolling my eyes. Ok, that's actually not true, there was one scene that really, really irked me even before (I'll get to that later), but page 286 was when I lost all hope.
Before that, I thought I had a winner in my hands. Or almost, at least. Jerkface (Andrew) aside - together with the mandatory presence of some "mean girls" - I liked Leigh a lot. A good sense of humor is sometimes all I need in a character in order to like him/her. She's got plenty, and a tad self-deprecating too. Her obliviousness to the situation slightly annoyed me, but nothing majorly unbearable.
Then Thompson had to go and pull the "dumb" chinese stereotype. Man, I got pissed. There's this scene in which Leigh and this Li Chang guy go to San Francisco for an award ceremony. The Chinese guy won third place with a poem - a very idiotic one, at that. The whole debacle is supposed to be funny, but in my opinion, it really isn't. Trying to make fun of the super-trite cliché of asian people not being able to speak English well and coming out just as plain dumb is lame and so last decade, miss Thompson. So one star goes for that.

The second star goes on the infamous page 286, when the real romance kicks in. Unfortunately, what I had thought a sassy, fun and spunky story up to that moment, suddenly turns into a mush of cheesy moments and of extremely stupid choices, so predictable and trite I turned the cover of the book around to check if I hadn't, by mistake, picked up another book. So disappointing!

So, begrudgingly, 3 stars, but just because I really liked the first part. I'm sure other people will enjoy the romance too but this book really left me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
My Thoughts

Before diving into this book, I thought it would be more Young Adult, even with it taking place in college. It ended up having a little bit of a New Adult feel to it, which was actually kinda awesome considering I've been getting into them lately.

Leigh reminds me a bit of myself--stepping out into the adult world and trying to figure out where to go next and who to be. She's in college and still with her high school boyfriend, Andrew, who is very much an idiot. Sadly, and I've seen this be the case so many times in real life, Leigh is staying with him since they've been together so long. Once she starts really thinking about things, based on the things she's talking about with friends and the girls she's mentoring, she starts to open up her eyes more. And her eyes start to see Nathan. He seemed like he didn't really like her, but there was something about the way he acted that made me think early on that was not the case. I began falling for him right away and I rooted for Leigh to take notice of him too.

Psych Major Syndrome is a book with a story you don't anticipate but end up loving. Leigh goes through a nice journey. It's like one of those "you think you know what you want but life hands you something other than the lemons you expected" kind of journeys. Alicia Thompson did a great job telling it and I would love to see more of her work.

My Rating Very Good
A few things to note about Psych Major Syndrome Leigh, the main character, is charmingly awkward, there’s a fantastic love interest, and the book is overall just hilarious. Psych Major Syndrome definitely gets bonus points for the college setting as well. If you’re one of those readers who likes the idea of the new adult genre but want more than the focus on the physical romance, I would totally recommend Psych Major Syndrome. It’s more in the vein of books like Just One Day by Gayle Foreman(though less serious than that one), and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Leigh struggles with her classes and assignments, taking the next step with her boyfriend, and dealing with frustrations like parking tickets. I think perhaps part of why this book has flown under the radar is that it was published before this push for college-aged stories–otherwise, I think it would be much better known than it currently is.

Leigh is. . . well, I can’t say she’s exactly a girl after my own heart, but she is adorkable and smart but also dumb at times and just a really well-rounded main character. Some of the things she says are so painfully awkward I couldn’t help but to feel for her, but she also has a great sense of humor(most of the time–there was a time or too when I thought the humor in this book was too mean, so it does lose a point for that). She makes great decisions at time, but is also completely unaware of problems at others, especially in her relationship with her high school boyfriend, Andrew. They’re at the same college, and a big focus of the book is the strain on their relationship, and how it manifest itself physically. I really loved this storyline. I loved how Leigh and Andrew had frank talks about intimacy, and how many issues that come along with that were addressed subtly over the over the course of the book.

But now only was Leigh great, most of the secondary characters in Psych Major Syndrome were wonderful as well. I loved Rebekah, the girl that Leigh ends up mentoring, and their discussions about life and boys and everything else. They warm up to each other and end up having a give-and-take relationship for sure. But one of my favorite characters in the book was Ami, Leigh’s roommate. Ami is an art major, and on paper it’s not an ideal roommate situation at all. But somehow, Ami and Leigh become great friends. It just reminded me so much of how I went into my freshman year of college totally blind to who my roommate would be, but all the adventures that ensued that year. Having a good roommate really can make all the difference, and while I loved the romantic storyline, I thought the roommate dynamic was the best in the entire book.

There were only two things that kept this from being a perfect read for me. One, during the middle of the book, there’s a Chinese character who is heavily stereotyped and played for laughs. In a book full of actual hilarious moments, it falls sadly short. The second minor issue was that while I did like the actual ending, the few chapters leading up to the end seemed to be there only to exaggerate the problem. I feel the resolution could have happened a chapter or two earlier than it did. Still, these complaints only slightly lessened my enjoyment of Psych Major Syndrome. After Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, it’s probably my favorite book with a college setting.