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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book broke me. I'm not okay. It made my heart broke into millions of pieces.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Harlow struggles with depression and attempts to take her life. Doing so she gets sent away to a facility to help her. Harlow is great at masking her feelings and makes strides to managing her depression. At least that is what she wants everyone to think. After her second stay in the facility she run s into her high school bully/old friend Sebastian. Sebastian is struggling with alcohol addiction and volunteered to go for treatment since he was caught drinking and driving. They make an unbreakable bond and continue being friends when they get out. Both still struggling and both so broken they aren't asking for help. Harlow realizes she unable to feel and that sends her over the edge. She successfully takes her life and that make Sebastian wake up and want to safe himself.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Vomit, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I knew what I was getting myself into when I read this book last night, but I didn't know what I was getting myself into. This book made me angry and I found myself thinking "please just hold on until you graduate. Please." I know what its like to have a mother who steals your journals and reads them, but unlike Harlow's mom, mine didn't lock me up for the content, but she did keep them and make comments about them until I found them and burned them un my backyard. I know what its like to feel the way Harlow did, but I held on and life got so much better when I left my parents house and I wanted her to hold on like I did. I sobbed because she didn't. I sobbed because I could have been her. I sobbed because I wanted to be her. This book in an unflinching look on depression and I was hopeful and hated it because it destroyed that hope. I loved this book and hated it and recommended it for those who want and can read it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book broke me
I am not okay.
This book broke me.
When I tell you this book sent me on an emotional roller coaster, I mean one chapter I was happy and smiling with the characters, and then next I was crying.
E. K. Blair did a wonderful job writing accurately about mental illness, and the struggles one goes through, and I applaud her for how she’s done it.
My first 5 star read of 2024, even though the ending destroyed me.
I am not okay.
This book broke me.
When I tell you this book sent me on an emotional roller coaster, I mean one chapter I was happy and smiling with the characters, and then next I was crying.
E. K. Blair did a wonderful job writing accurately about mental illness, and the struggles one goes through, and I applaud her for how she’s done it.
My first 5 star read of 2024, even though the ending destroyed me.
sad
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying
I’m so not okay 😭 this story broke me. You never know what someone is going through. They may act fine when they really aren’t. This author did a great job writing about mental illness. Yes it’s tough to read but it’s also a beautiful story. She shows you the reality of life. I was so not prepared for that ending. My heart is broke. And I don’t think I’ll ever recover from this story.
