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A review by aelong1399
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
5.0
Holy crap, what a spectacular book. Zappia is a stunningly talented author, and I can't wait to see what she does next. WOW. Everyone needs to read this book. I seriously could not put it down.
Zappia's handling of Alex's schizophrenia is (in my opinion) excellent. Alex is not the bad guy of the story, and in her story, she lives out a (fairly) normal life-she fights with her parents, she struggles to navigate the complicated social world of high school, she even falls in love. Schizophrenia is a disease that leaves those it effects almost always stereotyped as dangerous and unreachable. Zappia flips that stereotype on its head.
Also, the fact that the author is so young and yet managed to write a better book than many adult novelists I've read inspires me to push myself a little more with my own writing.
Zappia's handling of Alex's schizophrenia is (in my opinion) excellent. Alex is not the bad guy of the story, and in her story, she lives out a (fairly) normal life-she fights with her parents, she struggles to navigate the complicated social world of high school, she even falls in love. Schizophrenia is a disease that leaves those it effects almost always stereotyped as dangerous and unreachable. Zappia flips that stereotype on its head.
Also, the fact that the author is so young and yet managed to write a better book than many adult novelists I've read inspires me to push myself a little more with my own writing.