Leah Scheier

If you are, particularly, any kind of creative person, this story will lead you in as any good book does as it gently removes your heart from your chest, carefully mangles and reshapes it as you watch, and then, at the end, puts it back. That bit of duct tape will be fiiiine.

You know as it happens that your heart will never be quite the same. Nope.

This is "young adult" at the level where anyone pulled in will be rewarded (mangling is a reward, it IS). I recommend it particularly to those who want to understand mental illness right up close and personal.

There is a romance. It is, in fact, at the core of our main character's character. It's why this story works. And, like it or not, it ends exactly where it needs to.… (more)