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beccakiwi 's review for:
How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Well. This was WEIRD. Split into two parts, with part two being only a small handful of chapters, it’s told from the point of view of Daisy. In part one she is a 15 year old anorexic who is sent to live with her (never met) family in England, on the being off war. What father even DOES that… the entire concept of that just baffled me as it wasn’t done to keep her safe, it was done because she was anorexic and the “evil step mother” was pregnant. It then descends into a very twisted period of her having sex with her (also underage) cousin… but the hardest part wasn’t even that not was the fact it was written by an adult who was trying to channel a teenager and how they speak - and clearly by an adult who has NEVER SPOKEN to a teenager in their lives. Long run on sentences, randomly capitalised words and odd phrasing. It was a hard book to read for that. The part two was a little bit of relief as Daisy was grown at this point so the unusual writing was done. Had the full book been written ‘normally’ it would have been much more of a pleasure to read. All in all - the movie was trashy but way better than the book