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myevergrowingbookshelf 's review for:
Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
I saw a review for for Starfish on bookstagram and I immediately went and requested it on BorrowBox. I had to wait nearly three months for it to become available, but it was honestly worth the wait!
I won’t lie, it was hard to read (or listen to) at points. This young girl is not even a teenager yet and the stuff she hears and has to process at such a young age is so mentally draining. I felt so much for her, for her just to be loved for who she was. She had a brilliant couple of friends which was great, and her relationship with her dad was so lovely, but reading everything her mum put her through, that broke me. How a mother could say and do some of the stuff she did to Ellie, I just couldn’t comprehend it. It was cruel.
But of course, there was growth, I mean otherwise this story would just be cruel the whole way through and that would be awful. It was lovely to see Ellie own herself and her identity.
There are some definite content warnings for this one, especially for bullying and fat phobia. But I definitely think young people should read this one and for it be in schools, it shows just what people’s words can do to someone.
I deserve to be seen.
To be noticed.
To be heard.
To be treated like a human.
I won’t lie, it was hard to read (or listen to) at points. This young girl is not even a teenager yet and the stuff she hears and has to process at such a young age is so mentally draining. I felt so much for her, for her just to be loved for who she was. She had a brilliant couple of friends which was great, and her relationship with her dad was so lovely, but reading everything her mum put her through, that broke me. How a mother could say and do some of the stuff she did to Ellie, I just couldn’t comprehend it. It was cruel.
But of course, there was growth, I mean otherwise this story would just be cruel the whole way through and that would be awful. It was lovely to see Ellie own herself and her identity.
There are some definite content warnings for this one, especially for bullying and fat phobia. But I definitely think young people should read this one and for it be in schools, it shows just what people’s words can do to someone.
I deserve to be seen.
To be noticed.
To be heard.
To be treated like a human.