Apex Review Of Where Are The Cocoa Puffs? (Karen Winters Schwartz)

Dec. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Where Are The Cocoa Puffs?
Karen Winters Schwartz
ISBN: 9780979875564
Goodman Beck Publishing
Reviewed By Karynda Lewis

Official Apex Reviews Rating: 5 Stars


After receiving a heartbreaking diagnosis as being manic depressive, eighteen-year-old Amanda Benson’s life soon begins to spin wildly out of control. As her thoughts, words, and deeds swing violently between euphoric highs and abysmal lows, her family struggles to embrace her worsening condition while simultaneously coming to grips with the unpredictable new reality they all face. Further adding to the complications: the unwitting Ryan, Amanda’s love interest who soon becomes inextricably ensnared in her and her family’s tortuous world. Together, they’re forced to learn how to support, empower, and embolden one another as all sense of normalcy as they once knew it is forever changed...

Where Are The Cocoa Puffs? is a strikingly eye-opening read. Even though it’s a fictional account, author Karen Schwartz’s vivid tale paints a compelling portrait of a family in crisis, highlighting the incredible strain that mental illness can place on even the tightest of bonds. Given the difficulty of her plight, Amanda serves as quite the sympathetic protagonist, but as the tale unfolds Schwartz does a commendable job of displaying the very personal ways in which her illness affects everyone; as such, anyone who’s ever wondered what it would be like to experience the emotional rollercoaster of mental illness will find a sterling example in Where Are The Cocoa Puffs? A thought-provoking account of just how fragile even the strongest of family ties can often be.

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