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raesreadingrainbow 's review for:
A Tragic Kind of Wonderful
by Eric Lindstrom
I’m a believer that some books find you at the right moments in your life, and this was one of them for me. With that said if you have mental illnesses that are close to bipolar you may wanna hold off until you are in a good headspace - or don’t who am I to say lol
Our main character is Mel who happens to have Bipolar Disorder. She has the power to hide her emotions and not think of things she doesn’t want to think of. However as stressors keep getting more intense Mel is forced to face parts of herself she hasn’t faced in years.
I related to her more than I’d like to admit. It was told in her perspective and it was so scary to read something that was so similar to my own thought process. Toward the end I had to take a break to just sit and cry. I didn’t want to know what was going to happen next, but I knew I had to continue and I’m so glad I did.
At first the writing of the book threw me off so much, I didn’t like it and it felt ~young~ but I quickly sank into the story and understood the writing. It’s how she thinks and it felt so accurate to me. Now obviously I’m not the spokes person for this specific mental illness but for me the representation was phenomenal.
For the first time in a while I got to read about a girl In High school with multiple friend groups that she didn’t know from birth. Is it just me or is that a thing that happens in YA? The main character has a core group of friends that they met as a kid and haven’t left since. I always find it weird because my experience wasn’t that! I had different groups of friends and my high school didn’t have as many “cliques” as the stories do. So needless to say I appreciated this small detail!
Over all this book hit me hard but I’m more than aware it is not a book that everyone will like or relate to. However, for the few of us that do I think it is a very important book to read.
Our main character is Mel who happens to have Bipolar Disorder. She has the power to hide her emotions and not think of things she doesn’t want to think of. However as stressors keep getting more intense Mel is forced to face parts of herself she hasn’t faced in years.
I related to her more than I’d like to admit. It was told in her perspective and it was so scary to read something that was so similar to my own thought process. Toward the end I had to take a break to just sit and cry. I didn’t want to know what was going to happen next, but I knew I had to continue and I’m so glad I did.
At first the writing of the book threw me off so much, I didn’t like it and it felt ~young~ but I quickly sank into the story and understood the writing. It’s how she thinks and it felt so accurate to me. Now obviously I’m not the spokes person for this specific mental illness but for me the representation was phenomenal.
For the first time in a while I got to read about a girl In High school with multiple friend groups that she didn’t know from birth. Is it just me or is that a thing that happens in YA? The main character has a core group of friends that they met as a kid and haven’t left since. I always find it weird because my experience wasn’t that! I had different groups of friends and my high school didn’t have as many “cliques” as the stories do. So needless to say I appreciated this small detail!
Over all this book hit me hard but I’m more than aware it is not a book that everyone will like or relate to. However, for the few of us that do I think it is a very important book to read.