Not My Problem is a YA contemporary novel following 16 year old Aideen Cleary as she navigates her new role as the school 'fixer'. Aideen has a whale of a time doing favours for her classmates, but still can't seem to manage or fix the struggles in her own life. It's such a simple concept but it works so incredibly well.
Reading from Aideen's perpective was a delight, she's insanely witty and snarky which makes for a hilarious lens through which you view all the other characters and their interactions. Aideen is a fully realised character, her voice is natural and familiar and so are her values, priorities and motives.
Kavi and Maebh are equally fleshed out characters, with endearing qualities given to both (which resulted in me crying every time one of them was even midly inconvenienced). The entire cast are all people you've met before, all so real and nuanced that their dialogue jumps off the page and feels more like a memory than fiction.
The pacing was fabulous, consistently hitting important beats to keep you compulsively turning the pages. This book does a great job of showing the reader the implications of the plot developments on the characters, rather than just telling you. The writing in general is immaculate, no words were wasted and yet I felt everything Aideen felt so deeply and was enthralled by the story throughout.
Finally, the themes of this book were very well presented and discussed. The whole point of this book is that Aideen can solve everyone else's problems with ease, and she uses her 'fixer' role to get some reprieve from her own struggles. This is conveyed so well without diminishing the constant stress of situations like Aideen's. Also this book has excellent lesbian representation without it being the one and only focus of the book and WHAT MORE COULD I ASK FOR?
As you can Cleary see (lol, get it?), I have no qualms with this book and I think it is flawless. That is all.

Thank you so much to Andersen Press and NetGalley for the e-arc, I'm very grateful.