Reviews

Pieces of Me by Susan Ouriou, Charlotte Gingras

akmargie's review

4.0

I wobbled between 3 and 4 and settled on 4 since it was a translation and I could see this being beautiful in the original French. As such the writing had a distant feeling too it but was still very moving. It was a very short book and filled with lots of teen angst but it also had some very mature moments of self-awareness and a quiet strength. I liked it how about that. I liked that it was short too.

meghan_is_reading's review

YA working through grief, finding oneself.

marathonofbooks's review

5.0

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melissayabookshelf's review

5.0

Pieces of Me is a very beautiful novel about a lonely teen girl, named Mira. She doesn't have any friends. Her mother, seems to be half paranoid, half obsessive compulsive, and can't handle being alone, so she forces Mira to come home directly after school and spend all her weekends with her. Her father left years before and only shows up about once a month. All of this stress seems to tear away at her sense of self, so she feels like a series of pieces rather than a whole person.

If you don't enjoy very fragmented novels, then you won't like this one. However, for me...all I can say is wow. Mira is a character that will definitely stay with me for a long time.