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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I would like to disclaim that I have suffered from an eating disorder and have since recovered. My perspective of this is written as an Own Voices reviewer for eating disorders.

This book was one of the most beautiful contemporaries I have read in quite some time. Schwartz does a fantastic job of not sugar coating the mental illness. Additionally, it has good sapphic representation, not just alludes to it. The asexual representation surprised me, and the way it was described felt well thought out.

There are subtle anti-Semitic phrases in this book. The author is Jewish, and I am not, so I don’t feel it’s my place to say anything one way or the other about this. I do want to say that neither character is the most likable, and that is entirely at the fault of their respective mental illnesses. Eating disorders tend to lean towards being manipulative as a form of self-protection.

The ways both girls went through the recovery system and their journeys were well written. Not all stories will end in recovery, and not all recovery stories are linear.

This book is not for everyone, as Eating Disorders are hard to read about. The people who experience them may frustrate you.

My full review will be posted on September 9th, 2021.