The major flaw of having an unreliable narrator is that we cannot ever completely trust the narrator. While it’s nice as a reader to get the closure, I doubt events will always wrap up so nicely in reality, and I encourage readers to keep this in mind while reading Made You Up. This means that Alex also learns the truth. By the end, we learn what’s real and what existed only in Alex’s mind down to the smallest details we wouldn’t have thought to question. That said, I do want to acknowledge that Zappia wraps up the novel rather cleanly. In the process, we come a little closer to understanding what it would be like to be unable to discern what’s real and what isn’t real. On the one hand, I love the complexity that Zappia creates by intertwining reality and delusions so that we, the readers, finds ourselves questioning everything that we’re told. Made You Up is a mind boggling read.Īlex’s unreliable narration is both the charm and the major flaw of this novel. I would think that Alex perceives reality only to later question it only to later question my doubts. Made You Up is a novel that will make you question everything that you see. I never questioned if it was real or not. That first lobster scene is so cute, so precious, so full of feels. I fell in love with Made You Up from the time lobsters were first mentioned.
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