The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away

This is one that really did not work for me.  Simon has a fascination with aliens but one night, on a camping trip with his family, he believes he was abducted right after seeing an owl.  But no one believes him - in fact they start taking him to a counselor and put him on medication, especially after he tries to remove an implant and his family thinks he was trying to harm himself.

So, my issues...  First, the portrayal of Simon as "crazy" - the medications, the therapist, the evaluations, his assertive father - it was all forced and cliche to me and I think readers who actually struggle with mental illness would find it very offensive.  Second, there was a massive build up - did he really see aliens, etc.  Then, spoiler, with less than 10 pages to go the aliens land and then boom we skip forward many years to a Utopian society after the aliens came and rescued us from ourselves, the end.  Nope - too much of a jump...