I Never Promised You a Good Book

It is the story of a young woman and her time in a mental institution in the early 60's. The writing is pretty simplistic, and although this has become a young adult book, the author's style is very old fashioned and unlikely to keep a young adults attention. Then, there are the scenes in which Deborah retreats into her fantasy world which reads like a bad science fiction novel, with unexplained names and words that has the reader skipping over them, not because it's too complicated, but just uninteresting. It might have been interesting and somewhat informative in it's day, but in this day and age most 12 years olds can discuss the difference between schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder (and probably tell you what meds they are personally on for their own problems). There are much better books out there since this was written on mental illnesses, so I'd recommend skipping this one.

4/10