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A review by whimsicalwoodlandwanderer
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
4.0
Francesca Zappia is definitely an author I'm watching out for in the future.
I read Eliza and Her Monsters (Which was released after this one) earlier this year and loved it. I didn't love this one as much as I loved Eliza but I still loved it none the less.
There aren't many books which talk about Schizophrenia and conditions like it, and I feel like there should be more of them.
One of the things I loved about this book was that, while the mental illness of Alex was the main focus of the story, it also focused on the world around her and how she reacts to it.
I feel like in some instances people assume that one mental illness is the same for everybody and so the same "treatment" will work for everybody. This is not the case. Everyone has their own coping mechanisms for dealing with their own unique mental illnesses (in the book, Alex takes pictures so that she can go back to them and see if what she saw at the time had been real or not).
I love Zappias' writing and her books are always so beautifully crafted (both in the story itself and its format). Also.... how come the covers are always so damn beautiful????
I read Eliza and Her Monsters (Which was released after this one) earlier this year and loved it. I didn't love this one as much as I loved Eliza but I still loved it none the less.
There aren't many books which talk about Schizophrenia and conditions like it, and I feel like there should be more of them.
One of the things I loved about this book was that, while the mental illness of Alex was the main focus of the story, it also focused on the world around her and how she reacts to it.
I feel like in some instances people assume that one mental illness is the same for everybody and so the same "treatment" will work for everybody. This is not the case. Everyone has their own coping mechanisms for dealing with their own unique mental illnesses (in the book, Alex takes pictures so that she can go back to them and see if what she saw at the time had been real or not).
I love Zappias' writing and her books are always so beautifully crafted (both in the story itself and its format). Also.... how come the covers are always so damn beautiful????