Don't Panic - Book Review

Book Description: 
Samantha Branson is having severe anxiety attacks. Her heart beats unusually fast, her breath quickens and her hands sweat. Every detail screams in her head that she is the center of unwanted attention. Everyone can hear her thoughts, her heart and her breathing. The silence of the classroom is so loud that focus is impossible. After an attack lands her in the wrong bathroom, Sam meets Eli who offers to provide help. Faced with the return of her possessive ex-boyfriend and the blossoming of a new romance, Sam must find the strength inside herself to face her anxieties head on.

 Review: 
Don't Panic is Lindsay Paige's most true to life book she has written, written about her own experiences I was hooked. Samantha suffered from severe panic attacks and anxiety. Every time she was in class she seemed to get them and they were occurring more.
Because she hated being center of attention she would run out of class which was putting a toll on her education. Eli happens to see Samantha darting into the bathroom and because he knows what is wrong with her because he too has gone through it he wants to help Samantha.
 I liked that Eli helped Samantha with getting through her attacks and pushing her to go to therapy to get real help where she was able to talk no holds barred. I also loved how their relationship developed.

 It was a brilliant book and well written.
5 Stars!

Author Bio:

Lindsay Paige is a young adult romance author from North Carolina. Most of what Lindsay writes are her daydreams in lavish details. (Please excuse that fact when you read one of her future works about a girl who sleeps around.;)) When not writing, she is working to finish her first year of college.

Lindsay loves to read, listen to music, watch and play tennis, along with watching her favorite hockey team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. Lindsay is a big fan of Sidney Crosby (87) and buys Penguins merchandise whenever she can.

Lindsay loves to be around her family and best friends. One summer after viewing a video of Nicholas Sparks' house, Lindsay's mother made the comment that she should write a bestselling novel since she "reads so much", that way they could have a beautiful house as well. Lindsay took her comment to heart. She began working on Sweetness. A year later, the novel was complete.

Many of the aspects of the characters in Sweetness were inspired by Lindsay's own struggles, such as a recovering alcoholic father and the anxiety Emily suffers because of her past.