![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are certainly a lot of people who will like this- just not me. The writing is good, the story idea was good, it kept me interested until the end which is also good. I know I've torn the book apart here but it wasn't ALL bad. Eventually she meets Guy - a sensitive and sensible student at her school. Willow handles the feeling of loneliness and the anguish of residing with her busy brother by desperately drowning herself in cutting. Instead, she elects to numb her pain with the stinging sensation of a razor. It could have been an interesting story of a girl who gets the strength to carry on after a disaster with support from friends and family, instead of a story about how a girl can only recover with the 'help' of some random overbearing guy. Willow doesn't like to cry over her parents' death. Maybe I'm just not one for 'damsel in distress' type stories. Their relationship was incredibly unhealthy but Hoban portrays it as something to be desired. That just really annoyed me.Īlso couldn't stand Guy, the love interest. No problem other than Willow's was worth crying about. Willow seemed to think that just because she'd gone through something awful, NOBODY else's feelings were valid. I totally understand that she was going through a lot and struggling but I still don't think it's an excuse to act like nobody else's problems are real. I just couldn't bring myself to like Willow, no matter how hard I tried. You know it's bad when you can't work up much sympathy for a character who's just lost her parents. ![]()
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