Take a photo of a barcode or cover
liralen 's review for:
On Thin Ice
by P.J. Sharon, Addy Overbeeke
There is so much in this book: It's a lot. It's a lot of a lot.
But then there's this, in the author's note at the end: ON THIN ICE is the book of my heart. Of course, they all are in one way or another, but Penny's story is most like my own. She and I share many life experiences, including dipping our toes in the competitive figure skating pond, suffering an eating disorder, losing our mothers to cancer when we were sixteen, and surviving a dysfunctional family and a teen pregnancy.
Some readers may feel that too many serious life issues were addressed within this story, but the fact is, many teens have to deal with whatever life throws at them. Sometimes that means multiple dramas at once. That was certainly the case for me. (229)
She's right, of course. Life doesn't usually come with one or two carefully chosen dramas—sometimes they overlap, and sometimes that overlap is messy or poorly timed or both. It's still, I think, too much for the book (because in real life, even when traumas are colliding, there's usually more time for the little things, the banal, et cetera; even when a lot is going on it doesn't usually feel like we're leaping breathless from one crisis to the next—although, to be fair, I'm writing this in 2020, and I'm not sure if this year is proving or disproving my point). What to do with that?
*
Spoiler
an eating disorder, cancer, death of a parent, competitive sports, a long-lost father, alcoholism, a coming-out story, abortion, rape,* religion, teenage pregnancy...But then there's this, in the author's note at the end: ON THIN ICE is the book of my heart. Of course, they all are in one way or another, but Penny's story is most like my own. She and I share many life experiences, including dipping our toes in the competitive figure skating pond, suffering an eating disorder, losing our mothers to cancer when we were sixteen, and surviving a dysfunctional family and a teen pregnancy.
Some readers may feel that too many serious life issues were addressed within this story, but the fact is, many teens have to deal with whatever life throws at them. Sometimes that means multiple dramas at once. That was certainly the case for me. (229)
She's right, of course. Life doesn't usually come with one or two carefully chosen dramas—sometimes they overlap, and sometimes that overlap is messy or poorly timed or both. It's still, I think, too much for the book (because in real life, even when traumas are colliding, there's usually more time for the little things, the banal, et cetera; even when a lot is going on it doesn't usually feel like we're leaping breathless from one crisis to the next—although, to be fair, I'm writing this in 2020, and I'm not sure if this year is proving or disproving my point). What to do with that?
*