A review by janewhitehurst
Calvin by Martine Leavitt

3.0

I really wanted to love this book, but it just dragged a bit for me. I liked the basis of the story, a teenager, Calvin, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and starts hallucinating that he's seeing and talking to Hobbs the tiger from Calvin and Hobbes. He soon embarks on a journey to try to "cure" his schizophrenia and his childhood best friend, Suzie, joins him on the trip. I like that the book brings attention to mental illness and explains the brain processes that occur in a schizophrenic brain. It also shows that a person with this diagnosis can absolutely live a full life and experience love just like anyone else. It was definitely refreshing in that sense. I just think it needed more editing.