The rotten core of the spiraling thoughts. These are the thoughts that are never said aloud. Then you have Choi’s depiction of mental health: the bad and the ugly. Others show the struggles and dark complexities of mental health like slow burn nightmares.

You have the type of authors who write mental health in a blue landscape in order to keep a poetic essence about them. It’s the story that took a lot of my time and in the end I can’t tell you if it is truly worth it. Necessarily I didn’t enjoy the book (I don’t think it’s one you would actively enjoy in), the characters are people I couldn’t relate to and Pablo’s journey changed from understanding to resentment to a mix of bitterness and pity. It signifies the huge distortion to what we are being taught and consumed in schools, the internet, and entertainment versus real life and it’s unfairness. To say this story didn’t impact me someway is a lie, every emerging adult has faced the same helplessness and confusion that Pablo faces in his life (and if you didn’t you are one of the luckiest people alive). This is a heavily character driven story and is an allegory to the complicated transition to adulthood. Your mental health issues is not an excuse to treat the people who care about you like dirt.īoth of these points and more I’ll be speaking about in detail in my below review.The ending is not always roses and rainbows like this book predicts.

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