![]() Well, perhaps that’s not a bad thing at all. It made me think that Eliza and Her Monsters might also head in a different direction. Wallace comments on how differently and how well these books cover the topic, compared to the stock-standard, set-in-modern-times, builds-towards-suicide way. At one stage, Eliza’s love interest Wallace comments on Eliza’s favorite book series: I never knew these books were about depression, he says. But the seeds of her mental health journey are already there.Īctually, the conventionality of her mental health journey was my one disappointment in the book. She doesn’t recognize it in herself or in others. ![]() The main character is not overly aware of mental illness at the beginning of the book. In some ways, Eliza and Her Monsters presents mental illness quite conventionally. Kudos to these wonderful authors they give us depth and emotional complexity, without having to read 1000+ pages of dense nonsense. YA books are (almost always) exceptionally well-written and engaging, and deal with very real, very pressing issues without being at all pretentious and condescending. sub-genre), and discusses mental illness in what I felt was a responsible, understandable way. ![]() ![]() And importantly, I think this book appeals to a very wide audience (notably, the entire Rainbow Rowell Fangirl etc. ![]()
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