A review by larinsfeuer
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

3.0

Rating this is a bit hard for me because there were parts that I absolutely adored and then there were parts that I hated with every fibre of my being 

Jacob was the best part of this book and his anxiety rep was great 

I always always love health issues being represented in books and sometimes I thought that it was greatly done here but there was one page where I, as person with several disabilities who has felt the way benny is feeling here plenty of times, wanted to quit reading. 
I get that Briana struggled with her brothers illness and seeing him “give up” but her train of thought to me was so judgy and I didn’t get it because before that she was preaching to Jacob that benny was allowed to mourn his healthy body. And then she goes on  talking about how shitty it is that he is depressed and that he doesn’t want to live in a body that doesn’t work anymore? I get where she’s coming from I really really do I just think that specific train of thought was poorly done. Like it’s hard enough for him as it is and Briana feeling shitty about it is not gonna give Benny his quality of life back.  I think there were like two/three sentences that were poorly articulated in that regard which made me feel this way.

Also these two 35 year old people really have no idea how to communicate oh my fuvking god this was so incredibly frustrating I wanted to rip my own hair out