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samantha_randolph 's review for:
Girl in Pieces
by Kathleen Glasgow
(TW for this book: suicide, self harm, sexual assault, drugs, physical abuse)
*Small note: This book definitely handles mental illness well, and it is very, very dark. As such, I would recommend being extremely careful reading if you’re easily triggered. I read this in a fairly good mental state, but I still got triggered several times and should have spaced out my reading and balanced it with a lighter book to read on the side*
This story follows Charlie, a young woman with a rough past, who finds herself at an in-patient mental facility after attempting suicide. When she is forced to leave because of the expense, a friend helps her start anew somewhere else, but staying on the right track is hard when the past haunts her and present circumstances offer dangerous ways to forget.
As I mentioned before, this book is seriously dark. It’s one of the darkest books I’ve read, in a similar vein to Ellen Hopkins’s books but in prose. Charlie has had to fight for survival for years from having an abusive mother to being homeless to going to a dangerous house just for shelter. However, Charlie keeps fighting as much as she can, and eventually, hope powers through. I won’t spoil the ending, but I will say hope is a big part of it.
What I really enjoyed is the writing style. It isn’t broken into chapters, but reads in a similar style to a journal (starting and stopping when needed to reflect the mental state), though it isn’t written as an actual journal. The formatting sometimes reveals more of Charlie’s emotions than she does herself.
Final Verdict:
Overall, if you like Ellen Hopkins or Go Ask Alice type stories, GIRL IN PIECES is a strong pick with a protagonist whose happiness you’ll root for the whole way through.
Originally posted at The Forest of Words and Pages: http://www.forestofwordsandpages.com/2016/07/review-girl-pieces-kathleen-glasgow/
*Small note: This book definitely handles mental illness well, and it is very, very dark. As such, I would recommend being extremely careful reading if you’re easily triggered. I read this in a fairly good mental state, but I still got triggered several times and should have spaced out my reading and balanced it with a lighter book to read on the side*
This story follows Charlie, a young woman with a rough past, who finds herself at an in-patient mental facility after attempting suicide. When she is forced to leave because of the expense, a friend helps her start anew somewhere else, but staying on the right track is hard when the past haunts her and present circumstances offer dangerous ways to forget.
As I mentioned before, this book is seriously dark. It’s one of the darkest books I’ve read, in a similar vein to Ellen Hopkins’s books but in prose. Charlie has had to fight for survival for years from having an abusive mother to being homeless to going to a dangerous house just for shelter. However, Charlie keeps fighting as much as she can, and eventually, hope powers through. I won’t spoil the ending, but I will say hope is a big part of it.
What I really enjoyed is the writing style. It isn’t broken into chapters, but reads in a similar style to a journal (starting and stopping when needed to reflect the mental state), though it isn’t written as an actual journal. The formatting sometimes reveals more of Charlie’s emotions than she does herself.
Final Verdict:
Overall, if you like Ellen Hopkins or Go Ask Alice type stories, GIRL IN PIECES is a strong pick with a protagonist whose happiness you’ll root for the whole way through.
Originally posted at The Forest of Words and Pages: http://www.forestofwordsandpages.com/2016/07/review-girl-pieces-kathleen-glasgow/