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Crazy
by Amy Reed (Goodreads Author)
by Amy Reed (Goodreads Author)
4.5.
Well, this one did a pretty good job of making me a wreck. Talk about an intense, completely realistic and painfully honest look at bipolar disorder. It hit way close to home on a number of levels.
Connor and Isabel met at camp, and they continued their close friendship via email after it ended. Connor and Isabel's relationship is loving and destructive. They're very close and very far apart, and each of their emails to one another gives both of these sides. They abuse each other and they apologize, but things start to change. They would after summer, of course, but they change dramatically. Isabel relies on disconnecting and Connor wants nothing more than to connect.
This was a book that made me love and hate both characters equally. They were so good and so bad for one another and so good and so bad for themselves, too.
Did I mention that at about page 300 I started to choke up, and then when I got to that scene (view spoiler) I was a mess. Then I was a mess at the end because (view spoiler).
I should add, though, the first 50 to 100 pages of the book are quite funny. Isabel and Connor really play off one another's insecurities and it makes for funny, almost voyeuristic, reading. The email set up only enhances it. Execution here is smart and appealing.
The writing is tight and the voices are distinct and believable. I'm bummed I only have a digital copy of this one because there's an entire passage written by Connor about love I'd have marked that sort of encapsulates his entire story for me. It never felt inauthentic.
Reed is easily in my top-of-the-top list for contemporary yas, and she keeps getting better and better.
Full review here: http://www.stackedbooks.org/2012/05/c...
Well, this one did a pretty good job of making me a wreck. Talk about an intense, completely realistic and painfully honest look at bipolar disorder. It hit way close to home on a number of levels.
Connor and Isabel met at camp, and they continued their close friendship via email after it ended. Connor and Isabel's relationship is loving and destructive. They're very close and very far apart, and each of their emails to one another gives both of these sides. They abuse each other and they apologize, but things start to change. They would after summer, of course, but they change dramatically. Isabel relies on disconnecting and Connor wants nothing more than to connect.
This was a book that made me love and hate both characters equally. They were so good and so bad for one another and so good and so bad for themselves, too.
Did I mention that at about page 300 I started to choke up, and then when I got to that scene (view spoiler) I was a mess. Then I was a mess at the end because (view spoiler).
I should add, though, the first 50 to 100 pages of the book are quite funny. Isabel and Connor really play off one another's insecurities and it makes for funny, almost voyeuristic, reading. The email set up only enhances it. Execution here is smart and appealing.
The writing is tight and the voices are distinct and believable. I'm bummed I only have a digital copy of this one because there's an entire passage written by Connor about love I'd have marked that sort of encapsulates his entire story for me. It never felt inauthentic.
Reed is easily in my top-of-the-top list for contemporary yas, and she keeps getting better and better.
Full review here: http://www.stackedbooks.org/2012/05/c...
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Reading Progress
| 01/09/2012 | page 165 |
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43.0% | "So damn good. Conner and Isabel have such a real, dysfunctional, and loving relationship with each other and themselves." |
| 01/09/2012 | page 300 |
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78.0% | "I know Isabel a little too well, and also, she makes me want to cry a lot of tears." |
