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Fragile
by Gemma Donoghue
Disclaimer: I received this ebook from the author. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book: Fragile
Author: Gemma Donoghue
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3/5
Recommended For...: contemporary readers
Publication Date: January 19, 2020
Genre: YA Contemporary
Recommended Age: can’t recommend, DNFed, but ED trigger warnings!
Publisher: Indie Published
Pages: 301
Synopsis: It started with a candy bar.
One minute Katherine was sitting on the couch watching cartoons, about to eat a Snickers.
The next she was running to the bathroom and shoving two fingers down her throat and throwing up.
Katherine doesn't know how her eating disorder started; was it curiosity, a jealous competition with her best friend Carol to see who would be the smallest, or was it something else? All she knows is that she dropped six sizes in five months after her grandmother tried to file for custody of her after her parents divorced when she was at her lowest weight.
Katherine feels like she has lost control over her life and the only thing she believes she can control is what she eats. It became easier and easier for her to lie to her dad and say that she had eaten, to lie to herself and say she was full, or to just not eat at all.
At 95 pounds she doesn't feel like a size zero. She still feels fat. When she looks in the mirror she can all she sees is an ocean of fat hanging off of her body even though no one else can see it. Katherine doesn't see food as food. She only sees the calories it contains.
Katherine is stuck in a rut in life. And now she's trapped in the small town of Deer's Run New York. Life in Deer's Run is a nightmare come true. Her grandmother has the school nurse, teachers, and lunchroom attendants watch Katherine at lunch, when she goes to the bathroom, and challenges
her constantly to eat the foods she's spent half of her life avoiding.
Katherine has planned to stay in Deer's Run for her sophomore year. But what he Dad doesn't know is that
Katherine only plans on staying long enough to convince her Dad and more importantly her grandmother
that she is healthy. Healthy enough to avoid being shipped back to the Rosewood Inpatient Clinic for Eating Disorders, a treatment center for girls like her—girls with eating disorders.
When Katherine learns that Carol, her best friend, had committed suicide only two weeks earlier, trying to get better is almost impossible.
Not only does she have to listen to her own voice analyzing and obsessing about every single thing she does and every single calorie of food she eats, but she also has to listen to Carol's as well when she listens to several messages Carol left her.
Messages that will change her life forever.
Review: I had to DNF this book. It had an interesting concept and if you liked Twilight or the other early YA books then you might like this one, but the ED in this book was really hard on me mentally and I can’t focus on it during this time.
Verdict: Not for me at this time.
Book: Fragile
Author: Gemma Donoghue
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3/5
Recommended For...: contemporary readers
Publication Date: January 19, 2020
Genre: YA Contemporary
Recommended Age: can’t recommend, DNFed, but ED trigger warnings!
Publisher: Indie Published
Pages: 301
Synopsis: It started with a candy bar.
One minute Katherine was sitting on the couch watching cartoons, about to eat a Snickers.
The next she was running to the bathroom and shoving two fingers down her throat and throwing up.
Katherine doesn't know how her eating disorder started; was it curiosity, a jealous competition with her best friend Carol to see who would be the smallest, or was it something else? All she knows is that she dropped six sizes in five months after her grandmother tried to file for custody of her after her parents divorced when she was at her lowest weight.
Katherine feels like she has lost control over her life and the only thing she believes she can control is what she eats. It became easier and easier for her to lie to her dad and say that she had eaten, to lie to herself and say she was full, or to just not eat at all.
At 95 pounds she doesn't feel like a size zero. She still feels fat. When she looks in the mirror she can all she sees is an ocean of fat hanging off of her body even though no one else can see it. Katherine doesn't see food as food. She only sees the calories it contains.
Katherine is stuck in a rut in life. And now she's trapped in the small town of Deer's Run New York. Life in Deer's Run is a nightmare come true. Her grandmother has the school nurse, teachers, and lunchroom attendants watch Katherine at lunch, when she goes to the bathroom, and challenges
her constantly to eat the foods she's spent half of her life avoiding.
Katherine has planned to stay in Deer's Run for her sophomore year. But what he Dad doesn't know is that
Katherine only plans on staying long enough to convince her Dad and more importantly her grandmother
that she is healthy. Healthy enough to avoid being shipped back to the Rosewood Inpatient Clinic for Eating Disorders, a treatment center for girls like her—girls with eating disorders.
When Katherine learns that Carol, her best friend, had committed suicide only two weeks earlier, trying to get better is almost impossible.
Not only does she have to listen to her own voice analyzing and obsessing about every single thing she does and every single calorie of food she eats, but she also has to listen to Carol's as well when she listens to several messages Carol left her.
Messages that will change her life forever.
Review: I had to DNF this book. It had an interesting concept and if you liked Twilight or the other early YA books then you might like this one, but the ED in this book was really hard on me mentally and I can’t focus on it during this time.
Verdict: Not for me at this time.