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A review by valfrae
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
2.0
The book starts with a beautiful poem, Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Path. I love love love it. ❤️
Made You Up is about Alex, who’s schizophrenic & extremely knowledgable about history. Then like most YAs, she meets a guy(who’s extremely knowledgeable about history too,surprise,surprise), falls in love & makes new friends, all the while struggling with differentiating between what’s real & what’s not. You would think it gets interesting. (Spoiler: IT DOES NOT.)
The main problem I had with this book is that it gets a bit fuzzy & confusing at times. Zappia jumps from one plot to another, like a bunny with a snake after its ass. Another problem I have with this book is that schizophrenia has been portrayed a bit shoddily. I won’t go into the details much but I’ll just mention this that one of the problems schizophrenic people have is disorganised speech, but Alex does not show any signs of speaking issues in the entire book, no stammering, nothing.
Except for the fact that the protagonist has schizophrenia, there’s nothing new to the book.
• Favourite character: The dad
Made You Up is about Alex, who’s schizophrenic & extremely knowledgable about history. Then like most YAs, she meets a guy(who’s extremely knowledgeable about history too,surprise,surprise), falls in love & makes new friends, all the while struggling with differentiating between what’s real & what’s not. You would think it gets interesting. (Spoiler: IT DOES NOT.)
The main problem I had with this book is that it gets a bit fuzzy & confusing at times. Zappia jumps from one plot to another, like a bunny with a snake after its ass. Another problem I have with this book is that schizophrenia has been portrayed a bit shoddily. I won’t go into the details much but I’ll just mention this that one of the problems schizophrenic people have is disorganised speech, but Alex does not show any signs of speaking issues in the entire book, no stammering, nothing.
Except for the fact that the protagonist has schizophrenia, there’s nothing new to the book.
• Favourite character: The dad