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A review by chelseayedinak
The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle
5.0
* I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review *
Oh boy this book was so good but so rough at times. Rough in the way of me wanting to reach in and take care of April, Oscar, and Winifred and tell them everything would be okay and get better. I appreciated the threads of hope and optimism woven throughout, but honestly this book got too real at times for me. Not in a bad way, just in an emotionally difficult way. At one point, the three main friends all write secrets on pieces of paper and put them in a hat to guess which secret belongs to each of them, but then they all write "I hate myself." That was a very big oof. The tone of it reminds me of "Lady Bird" and "Eighth Grade," where it depicts young people feeling trapped and struggling to come into their own. Fortunately, it does work out, but not without a rough journey to get there. If you are in an emotional place to handle it, I'd highly recommend checking it out.
Book TW: self-harm, disordered eating, suicidal ideation
Oh boy this book was so good but so rough at times. Rough in the way of me wanting to reach in and take care of April, Oscar, and Winifred and tell them everything would be okay and get better. I appreciated the threads of hope and optimism woven throughout, but honestly this book got too real at times for me. Not in a bad way, just in an emotionally difficult way. At one point, the three main friends all write secrets on pieces of paper and put them in a hat to guess which secret belongs to each of them, but then they all write "I hate myself." That was a very big oof. The tone of it reminds me of "Lady Bird" and "Eighth Grade," where it depicts young people feeling trapped and struggling to come into their own. Fortunately, it does work out, but not without a rough journey to get there. If you are in an emotional place to handle it, I'd highly recommend checking it out.
Book TW: self-harm, disordered eating, suicidal ideation