danielaine's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual assault, Vomit, Self harm, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts
marycbookshelf's review against another edition
5.0
Inspirational story about life with an eating disorder and the journey to recovery! This isn’t just all the “easy” parts to what someone deals with when dealing with these serious disorders. It’s to good bad and ugly.
trin_ney18's review against another edition
3.0
My librarian knows how much I love books about eating disorders. It was only natural for her to put this aside for me when it came in. I was excited because it was on my tbr list and I love getting that list down. I don't love this book.
It was good... in the last 80 or something pages. It was ok all throughout. I just couldn't get into the book and I understand that it was meant to be from her POV but her mindset on her sickness really conflicted with the story and left me lost. She was in and out a lot and so we missed important information from when she blacked out. Also the time would skip majorly. Like one chapter would say 2 or 3 months later and that's a big jump and it just didn't flow smoothly.
But as you get towards the end and she's coming to terms with her sickness it really is a tear-jerker. I was very upset and had a lot of tissues on my floor. It almost came to the point where I was sobbing. But then the book was over.
This book left me emotionally withdrawn toward the very end but that doesn't mean it wasn't a very informational read. You're able to experience highs and lows of anorexia through the sick person's eyes. I didn't love it but I also didn't hate it.
It was good... in the last 80 or something pages. It was ok all throughout. I just couldn't get into the book and I understand that it was meant to be from her POV but her mindset on her sickness really conflicted with the story and left me lost. She was in and out a lot and so we missed important information from when she blacked out. Also the time would skip majorly. Like one chapter would say 2 or 3 months later and that's a big jump and it just didn't flow smoothly.
But as you get towards the end and she's coming to terms with her sickness it really is a tear-jerker. I was very upset and had a lot of tissues on my floor. It almost came to the point where I was sobbing. But then the book was over.
This book left me emotionally withdrawn toward the very end but that doesn't mean it wasn't a very informational read. You're able to experience highs and lows of anorexia through the sick person's eyes. I didn't love it but I also didn't hate it.
lindseymoore14's review against another edition
5.0
This book is a memoir of a young woman's experiences living with very severe anorexia. It highlighted what it's like to live with an eating disorder without glorifying eating disorders, or being excessively descriptive in ways that may be triggering. What this book does best is illustrate that eating disorder recovery is a process. Recovery being the absolute end of an eating disorder is a common misconception, and the reality of recovery is often left out of eating disorder novels and memoirs. Overall, I really enjoyed this book, it is an intense read and it may be hard for people to step into the mindset of someone with an eating disorder, but this book is valuable contribution to ED lit.