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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
challenging
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sad
medium-paced
A heartbreaking, yet beautiful representation of the trauma she faced.
I loved the art style. I loved the characterization. I loved the writing. This felt like a very honest portrayal of a very complex subject. I feel like media around eating disorders often oversimplifies it as a desire to be skinny, whereas this delves really deep into underlying causes and mental health. It understands the ebbs and flows of recovery (which makes sense, being based on the author’s experiences), and offers a hopeful message without coming across as maudlin.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Oof. This was a rough read, but I'm glad it exists and I'm very happy to find it is in YA (at least at my library). This books covers a lot of really distressing subjects, the two primary ones being anorexia and sexual assault. The story is wonderfully told and the art is really great. It has the potential to be pretty triggering, so be careful if you are/are recommending to a sexual assault or anorexia survivor.
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medium-paced
Powerful. Heartbreaking. Real. Katie’s journey through coping, understanding and conquering her eating disorder and the loss of trust of someone she thought was helping her was impactful and heartbreaking. But the hope that comes with conquering your illness and trauma is beautiful.
A gut wrenching memoir about the author’s struggle with trauma.
challenging
emotional
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tense
medium-paced
If you have suffered any kind of sexual trauma or have heavy ED triggers, proceed with caution.
That said, I loved this book. It knocked the breath out of my lungs with its parallels to my own story, and my heart ached for her. Healing is a process, and it's slow and painful and all-consuming, and I feel like Green captures it all so beautifully here.
That said, I loved this book. It knocked the breath out of my lungs with its parallels to my own story, and my heart ached for her. Healing is a process, and it's slow and painful and all-consuming, and I feel like Green captures it all so beautifully here.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
WOW. While I haven't lived with an ED I have two close friends who have and this is beautiful, powerful, sad and, ultimately, hopeful. What a well done testament to the challenge of recovery from ED. And yes, it's fast-paced despite being 500+ pages.
This is a really good book--and, I think, an important one. It's the author's story of her struggle with her eating disorder, and also the abuse she experienced from one of her therapists. These are relevant topics, and as the author herself says in her introduction, this is exactly the kind of book that people who are struggling with these sorts of things need and would benefit from reading. The fact that it's a graphic novel does mean that it can be a little, well, graphic at times, but it's not in the least bit gratuitous. This sort of thing happens, and teens and young people need to know that it isn't their fault, and that they can recover and move on from it.
I'm very glad that I bought this for our library system's collection, and hope that having it there on the shelves of the teen graphic novel section will help some people.
I'm very glad that I bought this for our library system's collection, and hope that having it there on the shelves of the teen graphic novel section will help some people.