![]() It makes the cutting more powerful, and the reader more helpless. And, as I could tell more and more as the book went on, Willow is wantonly misinterpreting almost everything around her. Sure, the book is written in third-person present tense (which usually drives me nuts), but we’re seeing things from Willow’s perspective. It was painful for me, as the reader, to see such obvious pain in a person, and yet be nearly powerless to do anything about it.īecause on top of being grief-stricken, Willow is a terribly unreliable narrator. But this is the first time I’d read one where the main character dealt with the pain in such an obviously addicting and destructive behavior. And these books address the teens’ dealing with the pain of loss in many different ways. Many teen books deal with tough issues, death being only one among them. So she goes about in a haze, cutting herself when things get too bad. ![]() The physical pain of the razor slicing her skin is, for her, much more bearable than the emotional pain of dealing with her parents’ death. That she is grief-stricken is an understatement: she is terrified of facing the grief and so has taken to cutting. ![]() Willow has done the unthinkable: seven months ago, she was driving her parents home in a rainstorm when she lost control of the car, totaling it and killing both of her parents instantly. ![]()
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