CRAZY by Amy Reed is the story of Isabel and Connor. They meet at summer camp and become friends. After camp they keep in touch through emails. Connor is falling in love with Isabel  and Izzy is falling over the cliff of sanity.  At times, their relationship  is very close and other times, very destructive.  Izzy suffers from bipolar disorder. Connor is trying to help her and at times Izzy is very selfish and mean to him. The emails between the two are open and honest and at times, painful to read.

Izzy's family life is a mess and most of the time she feels very alone and that no one cares.  She is wrong about her friendship with Connor though. He refuses to give up on her so while she keeps pushing him away, he keeps trying to pull her in.   Izzy is suffering from depression and low self esteem issues.  When she goes off on these emotions, Connor is always there to pull her back down to reality.  At times while reading CRAZY I was yelling at Connor to just walk away. She doesn't deserve you! You are too good for her. But as I read on, I realized that Izzy really needed Connor's   friendship.

This is my first book by Amy Reed and I really loved it. I'm now going to go and find her other books and read those too.  CRAZY was a quick read for me, most of the time, I couldn't put it down. I had to see how it was going to end. CRAZY will make you happy and sad as you read it. At times, I was holding my breath and didn't even realize it. CRAZY is intense at some parts as you will find when you read it.  It opened my eyes to bipolar disorder and gave me great compassion to those suffering from it.  CRAZY will grab you right from page one and never let you go.  Amy does a great   job of  telling a story dealing with bipolar and makes the characters come alive for you through their emails.