nicolesbookcorner 's review for:

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

3.0

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The writing was overall good, but the concept of the book is what made me write 3 stars instead of 5. Maybe is because I haven't experienced intensifying love first hand, but from what other people have told me, it isn't suppose to be like the way it was described in the book. Maybe some suffered through what Jam went through and completely shut down, but I found it kind of annoying the way she threw everything away because of her "boyfriend's death". Maybe I am taking the wrong way but it felt like the book was glamorizing depression.

One positive thing that came out of reading this book was that now I'm interested in reading some poems from Sylvia Plath