30 pages from being done and I've been pretty bored the whole way through. I bought this book about 2 years ago because I thought that the premise was really interesting: a girl contracts a mysterious disease that leaves her literally mad for an entire month and no one has any clue why? Sign me up.

Now that I've actually taken the time to read it, I'm a little disappointed by the writing itself.

For one, I understand that having your brain taken over by a crippling and lethal autoimmune disease is a dramatic event that can occur in one's life. That being said - and I think a previous reviewer mentioned this - there was a LOT more telling and I would have rather seen more showing to help me draw my own conclusions. I really dislike when authors feel the need to draw the reader an obnoxiously detailed narrative map the entire way through (see Ready Player One). To me, it was too explicative in parts, too wordy in others, and - at times - a bit self-aggrandizing.

Maybe because my mom's an ER nurse and I hear medical jargon all the time, but when it sounds like the narrator is on the verge of defining what the frontal lobe is for me, I just feel like rolling my eyes about the whole thing.

Anyway, cool concept, but disappointed in the delivery. Was expecting it to be a little more engrossing and not so "then this happened. then this happened. then this..."