Girl in Pieces: The million-copy TikTok sensation

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She had skin like mine. Feeling my eyes on her, she hastily slid down her sleeve, cloaking her thin, fresh red scars from view.

In this story, the main character is a young girl named Tiger. She’s just sixteen years old and is like any other girl her age. When it comes to her life, she’s always been close with her mother. She’s been her entire world for some time now. But things are starting to change slowly as she continues to grow up. I connected with Charlie. I felt her desperation for money and a job and a place to live, but I couldn't really connect with her pain and self-harm. Charlie went through so much in this book, that I just wanted to hold her, and tell her everything’s going to be alright. Darling Venom is an enemies-to-lovers, age-gap romance. You follow three characters for different parts of the book. In the beginning, you’re following Kellan and Charlie. They meet one night on the top of their school’s roof. They both went there with the same purpose but didn’t know the other would be there. When they show up, they talk, and neither ends up following through with their plans for the evening. A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book." —Nicola Yoon , #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything

I thought that I would hate the writing going into this honestly, but I found it gorgeous. The author writes like how I always wished I could write before I discovered that I'm positively awful at writing beautiful sentences. Dark, frank, and tender, Girl in Pieces keeps the reader electrified for its entire journey. You’re so Living in Tucson, Arizona, the author currently writes for Garrison Keillor's radio show, The Writer's Almanac. Girl in Pieces was written during arts fellowships over the past eight years. Glasgow says her aim was to write an uplifting personal story that would inspire hope in anyone affected by self-harm. She has without a doubt achieved this. "There is the person people see on the outside and then there is the person on the inside and then, even farther down, is that other, buried person, a naked and silent creature, not used to light." In her debut novel, Glasgow mines the darkness and, ultimately, offers the glimmer of recovery. Sarah Gilmartin

I felt so many emotions reading this: sadness, guilt, pity, hope, disappointment. Mainly sad, since this book covers many dark and upsetting subjects, but there was also the hope. Hope when Charlie was getting better, hope when Charlie was smiling.

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Thank you Penguin Random House / Delacorte Press for the ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Riley, i´ve felt weird about him from the start tbh. He gave off such a weird vibe, idk what it was about him. I just couldn´t get myself to like him. But for those who do enjoy books that cover a wide range of issues, and this style of writing, then I'm sure Girl in Pieces has a lot to offer. It's just not my cup of tea. Sixteen is a time where you try to define yourself as a person. But now that Tiger is sixteen she’s finding that her mother has a ton of control over her. When it comes to her mother handling just about everything in her life, Tiger’s finding it to be suffocating in nature. She’s doing the best that she can to try and put up with it, but sometimes she just wants to be an individual and not have her mom running her life like a CEO or something. I wrote the story of Charlie Davis for the cutters and the burners and the kids on the street who have nowhere safe to sleep. I wrote the story of Charlie Davis for their mothers and fathers and for their friends.

You are not alone. Charlie Davis's story is the story of over two million young women in the United States. And those young women will grow up, like I did, bearing the truth of our past on our bodies. I wrote the story of Charlie Davis for the cutters and the burners and the kids on the street who have nowhere safe to sleep. I wrote the story of Charlie Davis for their mothers and fathers and fA high school girl and her friend deal with problems, and the girl want to know her friend’s brother for a reason.

This book was very personal for me. It triggered a lot of emotion and memory out of me. Without going into too much detail, I can relate very much to the protagonist in this book. But I think we all can in our own ways if we can remember what it's like to be a teenager and even imagine what it's like to be a teenager in Charlotte's life. How to Make Friends with the Dark is the second fictional novel to come out from author Kathleen Glasgow. This book was published in 2019. It’s the story of a girl’s battle to find clarity in a world that often seems unclear.Though the main reason I couldn't fully connect - and the reason I think Hopkins fans will enjoy this - is that I think the author took on too many issues at once, exploring none of them in the depth I feel such subjects warrant. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty. The last thing I thought I might see before I died on the cold, wet grass. The circumstances that have led her to this point include: a depressive and beloved father who killed himself; an abusive mother who took his death out on her only child; a best friend who also attempts suicide; and the severing of ties between mother and daughter followed by a stint of homelessness that culminates with Charlie living in “Seed House”, where she’s pimped out to older men. Her drug addict friends Evan and Dump encourage her to comply.