A review by jessdance34
Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager by Beatrice Sparks

1.0

I have read numerous books about eating disorders and eating disorder recovery. What I have found is that there are two different categories of books: the ones that are realistic and show the sudden fall into the disorder and the hard climb out of it and many of them never quite fully recover from, and the ones that show the behavior strongly suddenly and then are magically fine at the end of the book; in other words, the realistic ones and the unrealistic ones. This one falls in the latter. Seriously, I do not believe that this book is realistic at all!!! The book does not show the struggle of the recovery and the actual despair that comes with having an eating disorder. Not only that, but at the end of the book, when she realizes that she does have a disorder, she goes back to her life as if nothing is wrong and everything goes back to normal, uhhhh what!? Yeah, big waste of an evening reading this crap!