caughtbetweenpages 's review for:

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones

3.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is definitely of its time in terms of its treatment of queerness and girl-hate, but it's a quick and enjoyable read about family and grief and the complications of friendship in the lives of teenage girls (or at least, teen girls from the early 2000s before cell phones etc. worked the way they do now)! The prose poetry element made the story fly by and was used to good effect to narrow in on each section's specific theme without feeling too Instagram Poetry-ish, which is always a risk for me when reading a novel in verse.