Disclaimer: I received an arc in a contest I won hosted by the author. Thanks! All opinions are my own.

Book: A Danger to Herself and Others

Author: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 3/5

Recommended For...: contemporary lovers, mental health readers, mystery readers, ya readers

Publication Date: February 5, 2019

Genre: YA Contemporary

Recommended Age: 16+ (mental health, suicide mentions, gaslighting)

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Pages: 341

Synopsis: Four walls. One window. No way to escape. Hannah knows there's been a mistake. She didn't need to be institutionalized. What happened to her roommate at her summer program was an accident. As soon as the doctors and judge figure out that she isn't a danger to herself or others, she can go home to start her senior year. In the meantime, she is going to use her persuasive skills to get the staff on her side.

Then Lucy arrives. Lucy has her own baggage. And she may be the only person who can get Hannah to confront the dangerous games and secrets that landed her in confinement in the first place.

Review: I had to DNF this book at page 71. While the book is wonderfully well written and I love that I won it, I just couldn't read it at this time and it's time for me to put it off my TBR for awhile. The book has some graphic detail about mental health and some various ways the character and her therapists try to deal with it. I don't feel like I'm in the best health myself to read that and unreliable narrator books don't really interest me as they are sometimes wrote too confusingly. However, the book didn't shy away from calling people out who dehumanize people with mental health issues and I love how raw and unapologetic it is.

Verdict: It wasn’t for me this time, but it could be for you!