My Review:
I read this book not really knowing what it was going to be about but because it's Quinn Loftis I just knew that it was going to be amazing!
This book is so different from her other books which have been paranormal. Call Me Crazy hit way to close to home for me. My father deals with the same issues as the Tally and this book gave me some insight to what he might be dealing with that I can't understand. I'd give this book 5 starts out of 5. LOVED IT!
Synopsis:
“I’m looking out from inside the chaos. It must be a one-way
mirror because no one seems to be able to see back inside to where I am. The
looks on their faces, the judgment in their eyes, tells me everything I need to
know. The most frustrating part about the whole messed up situation is that
even though I’m the one that they stare at in shock, I am just as shocked as
they are. I know no more than they do of why I lose control. What they don’t
know is that I am more scared of myself than they could ever be.” ~ Tally Baker
After a devastating turn of events, seventeen year old Tally
Baker is admitted to Mercy Psychiatric Facility where she is diagnosed with
Bipolar Disorder. She has come to a place where she honestly believes that her
life is over. Her mind tells her that she will never smile or laugh again, that
she will never be normal again. It is in this unlikely place that she meets two
people, different in every way, yet both critical to helping her realize that
she has so much more living to do.
Candy, a cantankerous sixty year old Mercy Psychiatric
patient, is hell bent on driving everyone as crazy as she is. Candy shows Tally
that, regardless of her diagnosis, the ability to push on and live her life to
the fullest is her choice and hers alone. In the midst of Tally’s oftentimes
humorous, sometimes heart-wrenching, escapades with Candy, a new patient is
admitted to Mercy—a Native American woman named Lolotea. Along with this new
patient comes a daily visitor, her son, Trey Swift. At first glance, it is
obvious to Tally that he is incredibly handsome and unbelievably caring. But
what she learns through her second glance, and many thereafter, is that there
is much more to Trey than he ever lets on. It is during these daily visits that
Trey and Tally build a friendship far deeper than either of them truly realize.
With Trey, Tally feels for the first time since being admitted that someone is
looking at her as a person and not as a disease. Trey begins to make it clear
that he wants more than friendship, but she knows that she can never give him
more. How can she, when she won’t even give him the truth? Tally doesn’t tell Trey that she is a patient
at Mercy, and she doesn’t ever plan to. Her plans go up in flames when she
finds out that Trey is a new student at her school, the school where her
brokenness was found out in the floor of the girl’s bathroom in a pool of her
own blood.
About Quinn Loftis
Quinn lives in beautiful NW Arkansas with her husband, son,
Doberman and cat (who thinks she is a ninja in disguise). She is beyond
thankful that she has been blessed to be able to write full time and hopes the
readers know how much all of their support means to her. Some of her hobbies
include reading, exercising, crochet, and spending time with family and
friends. She gives all credit of her success to God because he gave her the
creative spirit and vivid imagination it takes to write.
