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How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow

34 reviews

caroemily's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Bullying, Car accident, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Physical abuse, and Suicide

tinytike_sela's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

alanacicc's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Heartbreaking. I cried. I also cried even more during the author’s note.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Abandonment, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Alcohol, and Physical abuse

Minor: Abortion, Animal death, Car accident, Self harm, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Pregnancy

alyinsx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was dark and sometimes hard to read, especially if you’ve experienced loss it hit a lot of the thoughts and feelings swirling around inside. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

saramoschos's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Self harm, Suicide, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Blood, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Death, and Eating disorder

oystersauce's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, and Self harm

elena_kent's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide, and Mental illness

taliatalksbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

How To Make Friends With The Dark by Kathleen Glasgow was beautifully written and all around heartbreaking. I fell in love with the characters quickly, and thought they were well flushed out throughout the book. I think this story captures the complicated feeling of grief, especially in an overwhelming situation. In their author’s note, Glasgow refers to the fact that we have to do better for children in these situations, and I couldn’t agree more. Seeing the difficulties other characters are going through alongside Tiger helps put into perspective the systems many of us are unaware of on a daily basis. I think this book takes on a number of really difficult topics, but it portrays them all in a digestible way. I feel as though we grieve alongside Tiger throughout her journey, as we learn more details and get pulled from situation to situation. If you’re looking for a book that will validate feelings of grief in numerous different forms, and make you cry page after page (in a good way) then this emotional journey is definitely for you. This book makes you think about the implication of words, and the memories you want left behind with those you love while helping you process feelings you might be experiencing yourself, have experienced in the past, or may experience in the future. Despite Tiger being young, and the additional struggles that come with that, the grief process feels genuine and natural for her character. I truly enjoyed it, despite reading it through blurry eyes with a box of tissues tucked beside me, so if you can stomach grief that’s not your own, very much feeling like it is your own, I would give this one a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Abortion, Blood, and Dementia

matcharlyy's review against another edition

dark inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Vomit, Eating disorder, Grief, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, Alcohol, Mental illness, Car accident, and Child abuse

Moderate: Gore, Violence, Dementia, Drug abuse, and Blood

robda5ft's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I have officially finished Kathleen Glasgow’s big 3. This one was just has heart breaking and beautiful as Girl in Pieces and You’d be home now. This is a book all about grief. A young girl loses her mom and her whole life is turned upside down, she gets passes home to home, loses a friend, but gains more. She makes discoveries that her mom kept from her, that led her meeting a sister she never knew she had.  I thought this story was super realistic, and then I read the author’s note and found out this story was based off the author and her mother. 💔💔💔💔 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Death of parent