Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Made You Up by Francesca Zappia

13 reviews

clockwork_hel's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

and_the_ocean_burned's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Ableism, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

letiross's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, and Sexual assault

minathefangirl's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Bullying

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, and Blood

sophie42's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault

lyssalw's review

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

ceciii's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Even though the book talks about serious topics, it's still a very light reading and so easy to get through. It's fast paced and the chapters are literally so short and I loved that!
This book made me shed a couple tears and it definitely caught me off guard with some plotwists (specially one!). I can tell you it got to a point where I was just a roller coaster of emotions

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

the_midwest_library's review

emotional funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

 
Picked this book up on a whim, it was interesting to read a book with a POV from a schizophrenic main narrator. The book was really well written, it's YA contemporary, with light romance which is predictable but not the focus of the story. Overall a decent book for an easy weekend read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bubothereader's review

2.0

I struggle with this one. I enjoyed it from a reading perspective—it was a good story if you know nothing about anything the author discusses.
But as a mental health advocate, I can't support this book. Its portrayal of schizophrenia is HIGHLY inaccurate, and it's clearly being used as a literary device. It feels like Zappia didn't have a sensitivity reader for this and that's not okay. I also didn't like the sexual abuse, child abuse, and other mental illnesses being used just to further plot. They felt dropped in.
I did like the discussion of Alexithymia, but it again felt like a plot device to explain was Miles was often rude. Would have liked more discussion about how Alex felt about him and maybe them talking that out? Also, how did he find out he might be? Was it self-diagnosis? Did it come with an Autism diagnosis?
I will try Eliza and Her Monsters because I've heard it's much better and the author grows.
Do not read this book to understand schizophrenia. Read it to learn what it isn't. Delusions and hallucinations aren't the same.
This review is all over the place, but I think overall, I liked the story, but I know it's very inaccurate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

bipolarblue's review

emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Child death