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awesomeeallyson 's review for:
Girl in Pieces
by Kathleen Glasgow
I this book is heavy and honest. Glasgow bares all and isn't afraid to touch anything in this story about Charlotte and her friends.
At first I didn't like the book, I almost quit it and stopped. The writing is jarring and jagged. It reads like a first draft of a diary entry, which is interesting in the context but gets annoying as a novel. It takes a little getting used too...but even when I was used to it I didn't like it.
It also feels like Glasgow is trying to shock the reader, there is too much going on with the emotional trauma the characters deal with. I get that we are going to face a variety of issues within the treatment center Charlotte lives, but the entire novel delves deeply into a variety of these issues throughout, with a great amount of detail and detracts from the story.
The plot line began to get predictable, and I felt like the Charlotte, Blue and Riley didn't want to get better, weren't trying to get better, yet managed to get better with very little work after a largely traumatic event when its least likely they'd up and cure themselves.
That being said, I needed to know what happened and how the book wraps up. And that's why I gave it three stars instead of two.
At first I didn't like the book, I almost quit it and stopped. The writing is jarring and jagged. It reads like a first draft of a diary entry, which is interesting in the context but gets annoying as a novel. It takes a little getting used too...but even when I was used to it I didn't like it.
It also feels like Glasgow is trying to shock the reader, there is too much going on with the emotional trauma the characters deal with. I get that we are going to face a variety of issues within the treatment center Charlotte lives, but the entire novel delves deeply into a variety of these issues throughout, with a great amount of detail and detracts from the story.
The plot line began to get predictable, and I felt like the Charlotte, Blue and Riley didn't want to get better, weren't trying to get better, yet managed to get better with very little work after a largely traumatic event when its least likely they'd up and cure themselves.
That being said, I needed to know what happened and how the book wraps up. And that's why I gave it three stars instead of two.