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A review by alizalondon
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
1.0
Nope nope nope. This must be my first one-star read in years, it was so bad.
Listen—just because the main character suffers from schizophrenia and is therefore an unreliable narrator does not excuse how the writing was all over the place. This book can’t decide whether it’s a fun romantic coming-of-age or a dark contemporary, so you have a very average love story peppered with completely out of nowhere “twists” that make zero sense, are executed and foreshadowed poorly, are far too dark to make any sense in the story, and then are basically forgotten the next page onwards.
Plus add in a very inconsistent love interest and essentially zero notable side characters (seriously, who actually cares one bit about the club they’re a part of?). Other reviewers with more knowledge of schizophrenia also seem to indicate that the rep is extremely inaccurate and plays to stereotypes, so this book doesn’t even have that going for it.
Very unfortunate that it’s rated so highly.
Listen—just because the main character suffers from schizophrenia and is therefore an unreliable narrator does not excuse how the writing was all over the place. This book can’t decide whether it’s a fun romantic coming-of-age or a dark contemporary, so you have a very average love story peppered with completely out of nowhere “twists” that make zero sense, are executed and foreshadowed poorly, are far too dark to make any sense in the story, and then are basically forgotten the next page onwards.
Plus add in a very inconsistent love interest and essentially zero notable side characters (seriously, who actually cares one bit about the club they’re a part of?). Other reviewers with more knowledge of schizophrenia also seem to indicate that the rep is extremely inaccurate and plays to stereotypes, so this book doesn’t even have that going for it.
Very unfortunate that it’s rated so highly.