Izzy starts to experience crazy ups-and-downs that show in each one of her return letters and Connor starts to fear the worst about her unpredictable behavior, but at the same time he doesn’t want to betray Izzy’s trust by talking to someone. At first, the exchanges are funny and they banter back-and-forth so effortlessly, it’s impossible to deny their instant chemistry.

Now that their summer of being art counselors at camp has ended, they stay in touch via email. Then I finally found it when I read CRAZY.Ĭonnor and Izzy have a bizarre and beautiful friendship. I searched high and low for a contemporary that would deliver something that would blow my mind, keep me up until the single digit hours of morning and that I would think about long after I’d turned the last page. I needed more from it – a depth, intelligence and seriousness that I could only find in science fiction. There was a time, however, when I almost gave up reading it completely. Laura's Review: I’ve always loved contemporary, sometimes even more than I love any other genre. He knows he can’t save her from her pain. And the frenetic energy that makes her shine is starting to push her into a much darker place.Īs Izzy’s behavior gets increasingly erratic and self-destructive, Connor gets increasingly desperate to stop her from plummeting. But the closer they get, the more Connor realizes that Izzy’s highs are too high and her lows are too low. But somehow he’s been let into her crazy, exhilarating world and become her closest confidante. From the author of Beautiful and Clean, a heartwrenching exploration of a romance marred by mental illness.Ĭonnor knows that Izzy will never fall in love with him the way he’s fallen for her. He’s falling in love-and she’s falling over the edge of sanity.

Beautiful by amy reed