A review by mj_reads
This Impossible Light by Lily Myers

2.0

This Impossible Light is a beautiful story about struggling with your image. A girl is trying very hard to live up to the picture perfect image that she has created for herself, and as a result falls down a very dark path with her physical health. She develops an eating disorder. The portrayal of the MCs ED is the only saving grace of this book. The rest of the story fell really flat for me.

This story does hit a lot on the head when describing the internal battle that someone who has an eating disorder may experience, there were a few spots that I really felt connected too. But unfortunately other than that, the story was lacking a lot. It was beautifully written, but ultimately it was pretty unremarkable. Nothing about this story is memorable. If I didn’t connect to it, I probably would have DNFed it because it was generic and boring.

My biggest issue with this book was how simple it made everything surrounding eating disorders seem. It made it appear so easy to hide, so easy to start, so easy to decide when enough is enough. But honestly it is a lot more complicated than that. I’m honestly so surprised at how the author nails the portrayal of ED on the head and then misses so much at the end, it could be to leave this as an optimistic ending for others who suffer in ways similar to the MC, but it just made the entire process feel to clean and simple for me.

This book was okay, it was just missing something for me.