This is my first Han Nolan book although I think I have at least one other hanging around waiting to be read. I wasn't sure what to make of this at first and it took me until about halfway through to really get into it. That's not to say I didn't like it before that, I did. Jason is as likable as you can get. All of the characters are really.
I'm not at all knowledgeable in the subject of mental illness. I have no personal experience with it and I was a little anxious about how realistic this would turn out to be for me because of that. In the end i had nothing to worry about, I could see how this all could play out. It's probably playing out in homes across the country right this moment.
Nolan did a great, great job expressing how one thing for someone can turn out to be many totally different things for other people. The friends Jason made were fantastic, all realistic and not contrived. A lot of authors, in a situation where a character finds new friends, like to make everything go great and in the real world this doesn't happen. Friends argue, they may fight, and they get over it. This was execited in a wonderful way in my opinion.
When I first flipped through the book and saw the way it was written I rolled my eyes. The format is like reading through a movie script. Then I remembering thinking I would have books in verse and how some of them have turned out to be favorites of mine and I shoved my thoughts aside. This turned out to be very easy to read. The audience in Jason's heads is not obtrusive in any way and gives so much to the story.
At the very least I'm looking forward to reading another of Nolan's books.
I'm not at all knowledgeable in the subject of mental illness. I have no personal experience with it and I was a little anxious about how realistic this would turn out to be for me because of that. In the end i had nothing to worry about, I could see how this all could play out. It's probably playing out in homes across the country right this moment.
Nolan did a great, great job expressing how one thing for someone can turn out to be many totally different things for other people. The friends Jason made were fantastic, all realistic and not contrived. A lot of authors, in a situation where a character finds new friends, like to make everything go great and in the real world this doesn't happen. Friends argue, they may fight, and they get over it. This was execited in a wonderful way in my opinion.
When I first flipped through the book and saw the way it was written I rolled my eyes. The format is like reading through a movie script. Then I remembering thinking I would have books in verse and how some of them have turned out to be favorites of mine and I shoved my thoughts aside. This turned out to be very easy to read. The audience in Jason's heads is not obtrusive in any way and gives so much to the story.
At the very least I'm looking forward to reading another of Nolan's books.
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