[Book Review] A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

Title : A Mango-Shaped Space
Author : Wendy Mass
Publisher ; Little, Brown Young Readers
Rating : 3.5/5

Mia Winchell. She has a secret, she, only knows. The thing that she kept away from her friends because they would never understand, she can see the color of sounds, numbers, and words. It's called synesthesia. 

The book mainly tells us about Mia's proccess of finding who she really is and where she really belongs. Mia has a cat called Mango. She named it Mango because it 'sounds' like mango. Mango is her late grandfather's cat. After her grandfather died, Mia felt like Mango is the only way she can still associate with her grandfather because she believed there's his soul in Mango.

Beeing the only one who can see colors from the things normal people can't, Mia feels misunderstood. Morever after that day, five years ago when she was eight, when her classmate shouted freak because she thought she should've written the numers according to their colors, the day she first found out about her secret. No one believed her that day, not even her principal. So after that day she learned that she should guarded her secret so nobody would never find out, because they would never understand.

Well, a story about growning and learning who you are and what kind of people you choose to be with always catch my attention. Because I feel close to the things those story have, like typical teenager I am. But sometime it just gets cliche and the plot becomes really easy to be be guessed. I hate those kinds of book, really. I will never finished reading that kind of book. At first I thought, when I decide to buy this book, it would have a interesting plot because of the synesthia thing but when I started reading it I came to a conclution that this book wouldn't be the typical book I wanted it to be. In short, I was dissapointed. But didn't know how, I didn't put down the book like I used to do with the book I hate for its plot. I am grateful though because I didn't give up on this book. Because if I gave up and didn't continue to read his book, I will never really find the 'soul' the author had put in the story.

It has a slow pace plot, which will probably make you bored but somehow you won't because without realizing you will find yourself turning another after another pages to know what's gonna happen next. The author had written it with a very modest way that I wasn't expecting because I thought she would've presented a fancy storyline for an issue about synesthesia, which is a rather unique topic. But I like it that way. 

The ending is what I had expected, the reason why I can't give it a 4. But it's still a book worth to give your time for. You can learn so many things about family, friends, and growing up. To end it I will say that the book had thought me not to be afraid of beeing odd. If you think that no ones will understand, you 're wrong, there'll be. Not much but, there'll be.