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How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow

38 reviews

elena_kent's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Death of parent

Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Suicide

taliatalksbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

How To Make Friends With The Dark by Kathleen Glasgow was beautifully written and all around heartbreaking. I fell in love with the characters quickly, and thought they were well flushed out throughout the book. I think this story captures the complicated feeling of grief, especially in an overwhelming situation. In their author’s note, Glasgow refers to the fact that we have to do better for children in these situations, and I couldn’t agree more. Seeing the difficulties other characters are going through alongside Tiger helps put into perspective the systems many of us are unaware of on a daily basis. I think this book takes on a number of really difficult topics, but it portrays them all in a digestible way. I feel as though we grieve alongside Tiger throughout her journey, as we learn more details and get pulled from situation to situation. If you’re looking for a book that will validate feelings of grief in numerous different forms, and make you cry page after page (in a good way) then this emotional journey is definitely for you. This book makes you think about the implication of words, and the memories you want left behind with those you love while helping you process feelings you might be experiencing yourself, have experienced in the past, or may experience in the future. Despite Tiger being young, and the additional struggles that come with that, the grief process feels genuine and natural for her character. I truly enjoyed it, despite reading it through blurry eyes with a box of tissues tucked beside me, so if you can stomach grief that’s not your own, very much feeling like it is your own, I would give this one a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Dementia, Abortion, Abandonment, and Alcohol

matcharlyy's review against another edition

dark inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Dementia

robda5ft's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I have officially finished Kathleen Glasgow’s big 3. This one was just has heart breaking and beautiful as Girl in Pieces and You’d be home now. This is a book all about grief. A young girl loses her mom and her whole life is turned upside down, she gets passes home to home, loses a friend, but gains more. She makes discoveries that her mom kept from her, that led her meeting a sister she never knew she had.  I thought this story was super realistic, and then I read the author’s note and found out this story was based off the author and her mother. 💔💔💔💔 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Death of parent

nayyira's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, and Abortion

wishyouweresober's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Medical content, Car accident, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

This book is really dark, PLEASE LOOK AT THE CONTEXTS WARNINGS FIRST!!!

a_juergs's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Abandonment

chloe_08's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing and Abandonment

nara_knl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

losing someone is terrible… but grieving and living with that big suck… that’s even harder…
i wish i read this one sooner, after losing my cousin who meant the world to me, i was just as lonely and sad as tiger..
this book is great for grieving people, friends of grieving people, people without any contact to grieving…
this is a beautiful, heartbreaking and at the same time healing book! 
(still not as good as girl in pieces tho)
thank you kathleen glasgow for turning the hard things life into something wonderful!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

paigereitz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicide