And to be honest, not much really happens.
So we don't see relationships develop, we don't really get to know the other characters, we're just told about them, told about the things that happened, and told how Adam is feeling and what he's thinking. And I just really didn't like it.Įverything we read is told to us by Adam, we don't actually see any of it. Which means there is very, very little dialogue, and mostly just stream of consciousness on Adam's part. I've read books previously where the whole book was the main character writing to someone, but Words on Bathroom Walls is more realistic in that Adam doesn't write as if the things are happening as he writes them. And that is how the story is told, by Adam writing to his therapist. Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton sounded like such a great book, but I found I was disappointed.Īdam refuses to talk to his therapist, as he doesn't think therapy will help - it's not going to cure him, not going to make him better, so why bother? So instead, his therapist gets him to write instead he asks him questions during therapy sessions, and Adam answers them and tells him what's happening in his life later, on a notepad.
But then the miracle drug begins to fail, and Adam will do anything to keep Maya from discovering his secret. When he meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the great guy that she thinks he is. Suddenly everything seems possible, even love. As Adam starts fresh at a new school, he begins a drug trial that helps him ignore his visions.
It should be easy to separate the real from the not real, but Adam can't.
He sees and hears people who aren’t there: Rebecca, a beautiful girl who understands him the Mob Boss, who harasses him and Jason, the naked guy who’s unfailingly polite. Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton (eProof) - Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and It’s Kind of a Funny Story will cheer for Adam as he struggles with schizophrenia in this brilliantly honest and unexpectedly funny debut.Īdam has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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