Losing Adam was a beautiful story about a terrifying mental illness. The story is told from Adam and Jenny's points of view as they begin their college life together and Adam is taken by Schizophrenia. The story shows the struggle Adam faces as he tries to figure out what is real and what is not. Jenny his girlfriend since 9th grade sees the changes in him but does not know what is happening. When Adam confides in her about hearing voices Jenny agrees to not tell anyone. We even get a glimpse at what the parents go through as well. This book tries to help us understand a little bit of what someone suffering from this devastating disease can experience.

Wow... Losing Adam is frighteningly real. This is the first book I've read that portrays mental illness and all it's horrifying aspects realistically without making a character quirk or playing it down and romanticizing it. I would have given it five stars, but I think we were too focused on how Adam's Schizophrenia affected Jenny rather than Adam himself. I do recognize that mental illness affects loved ones as well, but I feel like we need to start focusing on the victims themselves since they are the ones to get the worst of it.
It's scary how close to home Adam's suffering hit. I myself was a victim of mental illness, I was "lucky" enough for it to be depression and severe anxiety (several different types it turns out) and not Schizophrenia, and in the sequences where he was feeling paranoid about people watching him, hating him and wanting to kill him... I could really Identify with that.
I applaud Adrienne Clarke for delivering such a raw and realistic sight into mental illness, and hope others will learn how to do so in the future.

Losing Adam follows two young college students Jenny and Adam, and the struggles for Adams mental illness with schizophrenia.

While the like the story of Jenny and Adam individually, i felt like I didn't feel the connection between the two characters themselves. I also wish I would of seen more support from Jenny after Adam diagnosis.

The ending and epilogue also fell flat me. Overall, i don't think I could recommend this.

Thank you net galley and the publisher for allowing to read this ebook in exchange for an honest review.