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The characterization and descriptions of Grace do disabled readers a disservice in more ways than one.

While some elements of the representation were handled decently, I ultimately wasn’t a fan.

Jacobus nailed the struggle with addiction, she nailed physical limitations, she nailed alcoholic and disability-related depression, she nailed the chaos of the active alcoholic, and she nailed the hopelessness and despair that can come from all of it.

Despite their proclamations to the contrary — “don’t tell me you’re one of those people who becomes their disease” — the characters are shown to have nothing in their lives that isn’t about their cancer.

A Q&A with author Corey Ann Haydu about the origins of OCD Love Story and the many and varied ways anxiety can manifest.

Some people call OCD a doubting disease. Corey Ann Haydu infuses her story with the back-and-forth, pulsing presence of this doubt, resulting in a first-person, insider’s account of what the condition feels like for many.

Although Kurt’s character seems to largely exist to serve the central romance, I was pleasantly surprised by how many pitfalls Perkins avoided in a wonderfully understated manner. Various assumptions and tropes were casually turned over with a single line here or there.

Author Tara Kelly sits down with her newest teen fan to discuss Harmonic Feedback, a young adult novel about a music-loving girl with autism, ADD, and anxiety disorder.

The writing and characters are wonderful, but if you’re looking for a book about depression, I’d pass on this one.

Although the book was fun and interesting in places, the disability aspect was very much a freak-show presentation of disability and the disabled experience.