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Made You Up
Francesca Zappia
Publication date: May 19th 2015
by Greenwillow Books
Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. This is a compelling and provoking literary debut that will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson, Silver Linings Playbook, and Liar. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn’t she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal. Funny, provoking, and ultimately moving, this debut novel featuring the quintessential unreliable narrator will have readers turning the pages and trying to figure out what is real and what is made up.
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– Thor’s Serpents (The Blackwell Pages #3) by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr [Purchase]
– Maximum Ride Forever (Maximum Ride #9) by James Patterson [Purchase]
– Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson #8) by Darynda Jones [Purchase]
– Illusionarium by Heather Dixon [Purchase]
– Dangerous Deception (Dangerous Creatures #2) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl [Purchase]
– Uprooted by Naomi Novik [Purchase]
– Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert [Purchase]
– The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne [Purchase]
– Seveneves by Neal Stephenson [Purchase]
– The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher [Purchase]
– A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1) by Kathleen Baldwin [Purchase]
– Lion Heart (Scarlet #3) by A.C. Gaughen [Purchase]
– The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan [Purchase]
– Nothing but Shadows (Tales from Shadowhunter Academy #4) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan [Purchase]
– The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker [Purchase]
– Off the Page (Between the Lines #2) by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer [Purchase]
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– The Last Good Day of the Year by Jessica Warman [Purchase]
– A Sense of the Infinite by Hilary T. Smith [Purchase]
– Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham [Purchase]
– From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess (From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess #1) by Meg Cabot [Purchase]
– Chantress Fury (Chantress Trilogy #3) by Amy Butler Greenfield [Purchase]
– Nimona by Noelle Stevenson [Purchase]
– In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World by Joey Graceffa [Purchase]
– Center Ice (Corrigan Falls Raiders #1) by Cate Cameron [Purchase]
– Ruins (Sentinel Trilogy #2) by Joshua Winning [Purchase]
– From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion [Purchase]
– Mia and the Bad Boy (Backstage Pass #2) by Lisa Burstein [Purchase]
– Eternity’s Wheel (InterWorld #3) by Michael Reaves, Neil Gaiman, and Mallory Reaves [Purchase]
– Bone Deep by Kim O’Brien [Purchase]
– Elena Vanishing by Elena Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle [Purchase]
– Hold Me Like a Breath (Once Upon a Crime Family #1) by Tiffany Schmidt [Purchase]
– Hit Count by Chris Lynch [Purchase]
– Three Day Summer by Sarvenaz Tash [Purchase]
– Sparks in Scotland by Rhonda Helms [Purchase]
– Killer Within (Killer Instinct #2) by S. E. Green [Purchase]
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Kayla @ The Thousand Lives
I think I’ll just be getting Lion Heart this week, but who knows – I haven’t been to the bookstore in a while so I may come across some others that I can’t say no to 😉
Grace @ Rebel Mommy Book Blog
Not too much for me this week but I am interested int he Jodi Picoult book.
Jennifer Bielman @ Bad Bird Reads
I am already hearing great things about Seveneves. So excited to try it.
Kristin@Blood,Sweat and Books
Wow, I feel so out of the loop. Many of these are new to me but a couple like The Choosing, Bone Deep and Seveneves sound awesome.
Jeann @ Happy Indulgence
For once I don’t have any books on my list this week that I need to review! I’m hearing a lot of great things about Made You Up and Bone Deep though. Thanks for the feature Giselle!
Pili @ In Love With Handmade
Oh boy, I have an ARC still pending to finish and quite a few books preordered this week too!
Cynthia
I have read Ice Twins and it is super creepy. I am so excited to read Made You Up!