Mia is a normal kid to everybody, but is she really inside her head? I read A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass. This book is about a girl with a sort of disease called Synesthesia. The most common type is that each word you hear or read or write has a color or a couple of different colors and she has that. It is about how she had not told her parents or her best friend and she had no idea what it was called so she was kind of helpless. The main character’s name is Mia. The setting of the book is modern time and usually she is at her house or at school.

I think that Mia is shy, because when she went to the doctor to find out what was wrong with her she almost didn’t talk at all. She is caring because when her friend got mad at her for not telling her she tried and tried to calm her friend down. She is responsible because even though she has a hard time with work because of her colors she tries as hard as she can to finish it. Another interesting part was that her brother (Zach) was really into fortune telling and the future. Also her sister (Beth) was a really pretty girl trying to make boys interested but after she went on a school trip for two weeks she was into yoga and potion-making. Her best friend’s (Jenna) dad just left and now she hates pretty much everything because her dad is dating other women.

I liked this book because I think that Synesthesia is really cool and now I really want to know more about it. I also thought that the author did a really good job describing things because sometimes she did not even say what was really happening she just relied on you to figure it out. I would recommend this book because it is a really fun book to read because you can learn so much about Synesthesia. Also Out of my mind by Sharon M. Draper is like this book because the main character in that book feels lonely because she has a disease. No other books are like this because of Mia and her Synesthesia.

I would give this book a 4 star rating because there were some parts that weren’t realistic.