A Blue So Dark

by Holly Schindler

[Stephanie]

I didn't really know what to expect with A Blue So Dark, but the cover was pretty and velvety so I bought it. Plus, the author is from Missouri, and the book is set in Missouri, which I thought was awesome since I haven't read any books set in Missouri before.

A Blue So Dark is very depressing. I don't know why I was surprised that it was so sad, since it is about a girl's mother who has schizophrenia, but I was.

I got really annoyed with Aura, not because she was annoying, but because she wouldn't ask for help. She was only 15 and she was trying to take care of her mother and go to school. It was almost difficult for me to read the book because it was hard to read about Aura struggling to take care of her mom, she didn't even have time to take care of herself. Plus, I wanted to slap Aura's dad. He knew what Aura was going through, but just left her to deal with it on her own, when he couldn't handle it himself.

And then when you think you might get away from all of the sadness, you also have Aura's best, and only friend, who has a child and has to drop out of school.

So it's not that this isn't a good book, it is. It's just not my type of book. Personally, I don't enjoy reading depressing books because I don't like to be sad. But the book did manage to bring out a lot of emotions from me, whether I liked it or not. And I learned a lot more about Schizophrenia.

So if you want to read a sad tale and learn more about schizophrenia, I would recommend this to you.