★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review

How do you recognize your own state of mental wellness? What do you do when life - and your heart - unravels? Is there hope when you cannot cope with life? Alleman opens her heart to give readers a transparent view of suffering, delusion, and healing ... from the inside. It's an interesting story in itself.

If you're dealing symptoms of mental illness, know someone (or are caring for someone) with challenges, this will be very helpful book. Recommended.

Million Skies is the story of one woman’s journey through living with mental illness. It was meant to tell the story of her journey but it provided me with new and valuable resources to assist me in dealing with clients with mental illnesses. Thank you Netgalley, Abilene Christian University Press & Leafwood Publishers and Abigail Alleman for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I honor the author's openness and honesty in telling her story. The stigma of mental illness has to be broken. As a piece of literature, I found the language a bit repetitive and flowery and in need of some editing and streamlining.

Author Abby Alleman has traveled to a far land—a harrowing one, into depths of psychotic mania that broke her. A Million Skies describes her dark encounters so vividly that I shook as I read, and ached for her and her family. But even from its early pages, I knew this was no ordinary account of mental illness and loss. Alleman writes with such clarity, humility, and wisdom, that I soon realized the treasures she extracted from her experience were nothing short of holy gifts from the God who calls her Beloved. Anyone experiencing an earthquake of loss will find this beautifully written book to be life-giving and hope-filled.

This was not what I expected. I had hoped for an engaging spiritual story about a woman's journey through life while battling mental illness. Instead, this book reads more like the author's diary: her thoughts and hopes, with a ton of biblical references, but very little action.