Review : Words on Bathroom Walls

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, Mental Illness, Mental Health,

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Pages: 305

Published July 4th 2017 by Random House Books for Young Readers

Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and It’s Kind of a Funny Story will cheer for Adam as he struggles with schizophrenia in this brilliantly honest and unexpectedly funny debut.

Adam has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He sees and hears people who aren’t there: Rebecca, a beautiful girl who understands him; the Mob Boss, who harasses him; and Jason, the naked guy who’s unfailingly polite. It should be easy to separate the real from the not real, but Adam can't.

Still, there’s hope. As Adam starts fresh at a new school, he begins a drug trial that helps him ignore his visions. Suddenly everything seems possible, even love. When he meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the great guy that she thinks he is. But then the miracle drug begins to fail, and Adam will do anything to keep Maya from discovering his secret. 

Adam has schizophrenia and learning to cope with of seeing people who aren't there with a trial drug. He's in a new school and can actually start over with people who don't know him which is nice enough. At this school Adam meets Maya and he wants to be a better person and hide his schizophrenia. It was working until cdhis meds stop working and things start to slowly go down.

"It's funny how sometimes your own hallucinations can hurt you without touching you or saying anything you didn't already know."

After reading the description of the book and hearing that it would appeal to those who are fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Which is my favorite book) along with a few others I knew this book was right for me. I just found myself so hooked to Adam as a character, this is my second time reading about a character with schizophrenia and I loved the different take in this book. Adam was a realistic type of guy who says what he thinks but then again, I can remember a few points there he pretty much was able to get that courage being that he wasn't telling anyone but writing it. I loved that he was self aware of what was going on and seeing how he dealt with what he was seeing. I thought it was interesting that little touch of what med he was taking and seeing it progressively get higher and how we was in certain states in how he was able to deal with certain moments of his schizophrenia. But I think the real eye opener for me was how people were treating him. Treating him as if he was a dangerous creature that shouldn't be around others which was tough and sad to see. It was a realistic and sad truth that many people think of this mental health issue is something to be afraid of. It just seems so strange to me. I got family members with different mental health issues so seeing something out of the norm is something that normal for me so seeing someone with a different issue, isn't intimidating or scary. So for a person to be scared or worried about a person with a different mental health such as schizophrenia is so strange to me. I would rather made it a learning opportunity and learn about the mental illness, rather then be afraid.

"Is it strange watching your world crumble around you, knowing there's nothing you can do about it? I imagine it's strange."

Back to the review, any who this book was a pretty enjoyable contemporary read and I enjoyed this. I think if you read Made You Up by Francesca Zappia you would be interested in this book as well with the POV of a character with schizophrenia. Or in general if you read and loved this book you might enjoy Made You Up as well. Overall Highly recommend you lovely readers to check out this book, I didn't think I would love this book as much as I did.

Review : The Sun is Also a Star

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Genre: Contemporary, Romance,

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Pages: 344

Expected Publication : November 1st ,2016 Delacorte Press 

 

Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.

Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.

The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true? 

There is so many reasons that this book is amazing and I would love to gush about this book but alas it isn't going to be out for a bit of time and don't want to spoil it. I'll try to keep this review free of spoilers as much as I can.

One thing I loved about this book was how each character were described. It feel like I understand and really know Daniel and Natasha's characters and I loved them. I loved that even the littlest character that made a minor role or change to the path their life was taken had their own part. Like just a random security guard, passing BMW driver or the subway conductor. These characters didn't have much for them and no matter how insignificant they were, each had their own side to what was going on and I appreciate getting to know them even briefly.

The facts and the minor histories of different stuff got their own moment to shine as well and put more depth into the story. It just added a bit more being able to describe a certain random thing they both talked about like the possibility of a multiverse. Like it was nice and all that they talked about it but then there was a whole little section of facts that would talk about it and it made the book that more interesting.

I loved how Daniel planned on winning Natasha's heart using since and how he heard about this article on a scientific way to get two people to fall in love. I feel like I've heard about what Daniel was talking about before. Through some video clip, I could be mixing that up. Loved the face that he was using Science as a way to get Natasha to love him meanwhile shes a skeptic who love facts. They both are so different and I loved seeing how their brief relationship worked.

I loved how the overall writing style was with the book with how the sections were, like how the chapters were. Meaning the whole different POV and facts, how everything was laid out in the book. It was interesting and Unique I'm not sure I've come across a book like that. I don't even think I could compare it to the author's other book Everything, Everything because I listened to it on audiobook a while ago so not sure if its in the same style.

Overall I loved this book it was amazing, and I can't think of another book that I've read this year that had me go through plenty of emotions. Oh and that ending. Oh god that ending. I loved it so much. The ending it not how i expected it to turn out but loved it just the same. Such a fantastic book. If you haven't put this on your tbr pile then you need to this book is not something your going to want to miss.

Review : The Sun is Also a Star

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Genre: Contemporary, Romance,

Goodreads : Click

Pages: 344

Expected Publication : November 1st ,2016 Delacorte Press 

 

Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.

Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.

The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true? 

There is so many reasons that this book is amazing and I would love to gush about this book but alas it isn't going to be out for a bit of time and don't want to spoil it. I'll try to keep this review free of spoilers as much as I can.

One thing I loved about this book was how each character were described. It feel like I understand and really know Daniel and Natasha's characters and I loved them. I loved that even the littlest character that made a minor role or change to the path their life was taken had their own part. Like just a random security guard, passing BMW driver or the subway conductor. These characters didn't have much for them and no matter how insignificant they were, each had their own side to what was going on and I appreciate getting to know them even briefly.

The facts and the minor histories of different stuff got their own moment to shine as well and put more depth into the story. It just added a bit more being able to describe a certain random thing they both talked about like the possibility of a multiverse. Like it was nice and all that they talked about it but then there was a whole little section of facts that would talk about it and it made the book that more interesting.

I loved how Daniel planned on winning Natasha's heart using since and how he heard about this article on a scientific way to get two people to fall in love. I feel like I've heard about what Daniel was talking about before. Through some video clip, I could be mixing that up. Loved the face that he was using Science as a way to get Natasha to love him meanwhile shes a skeptic who love facts. They both are so different and I loved seeing how their brief relationship worked.

I loved how the overall writing style was with the book with how the sections were, like how the chapters were. Meaning the whole different POV and facts, how everything was laid out in the book. It was interesting and Unique I'm not sure I've come across a book like that. I don't even think I could compare it to the author's other book Everything, Everything because I listened to it on audiobook a while ago so not sure if its in the same style.

Overall I loved this book it was amazing, and I can't think of another book that I've read this year that had me go through plenty of emotions. Oh and that ending. Oh god that ending. I loved it so much. The ending it not how i expected it to turn out but loved it just the same. Such a fantastic book. If you haven't put this on your tbr pile then you need to this book is not something your going to want to miss.