My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I made you happy.”“Yeah, you made me happy.”“I can't make you happy. We can't let each other make each other happy.”“Would that be so bad?”“That would ruin everything.”

Started off with promise and pretty spot on descriptions of depression (though with way too much repetition of kinetic/potential energy theme). But the book then took a very misguided turn into teen-love-can-fix-depression territory. That's a scary message to set as an example for kids. I had higher hopes

This book has good and bad things. I think the author is afraid to use real colours. Not everything has to be golden, honey, auburn or hazel. Things can just be brown and yellow and blue. I also think this book is trying to be too deep. All the metaphors seem a little forced. The many repetitive words also really annoyed me. Stop with all the hazel eyes and black sludge. I've read both of those phrases about 10 times already. I get it. Aysel keeps contradicting her thoughts, she says things about prejudge and how it's bad and then later says “well he doesn't look like a depressed person” It really undermines the point. Also, whole paragraphs of thought between dialogue are very annoying. Like it's trying to stall all the details to keep you reading. But its shouldn't be like that, you should wanna keep reading because you like the book not because you're thinking “god just say it already”

Apart from all that the book was pretty good, the story certainly has good things and has a good premise. I didn't entirely expect the ending which is always a plus.