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Perfectly Thin by Margaret McHeyzer
5.0
This book is beyond unbelievable. It is so true, so raw and so real that it hurts. I couldn’t stop reading. The poor main character is a victim and her own tormentor, all in one, and deserves none of it.
As a person who has always suffered from medical issues that have either made me too big or too thin, I have been called fat and blamed for my long term medical conditions, of which the medications cause me to gain weight without my choice, or called anorexic because my condition made me too ill to eat. I was bullied because people thought I was wanting attention or not eating by choice, when actually I have autoimmune issues that mean eating makes me very ill sometimes. It was so hard to deal with this, and still is, and really creates body image issues, but nothing like what this girl endured.
Being inside her mind, hearing how her day went, how her mind ticked, tore my heart out, but I couldn’t put this book down. I needed to know she was ok. The author has taken a very real and sad subject matter and given us a real story to show us the life of another, and she has done so in a heart-wrenchingly beautiful way. I commend her on that. This story is written perfectly.
As a person who has always suffered from medical issues that have either made me too big or too thin, I have been called fat and blamed for my long term medical conditions, of which the medications cause me to gain weight without my choice, or called anorexic because my condition made me too ill to eat. I was bullied because people thought I was wanting attention or not eating by choice, when actually I have autoimmune issues that mean eating makes me very ill sometimes. It was so hard to deal with this, and still is, and really creates body image issues, but nothing like what this girl endured.
Being inside her mind, hearing how her day went, how her mind ticked, tore my heart out, but I couldn’t put this book down. I needed to know she was ok. The author has taken a very real and sad subject matter and given us a real story to show us the life of another, and she has done so in a heart-wrenchingly beautiful way. I commend her on that. This story is written perfectly.