Girl in Pieces: The million-copy TikTok sensation

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Firstly, I didn't like the writing. Another reviewer pointed out that it reads like short diary snippets, but I felt completely disconnected from the characters and the story. Charlotte Davis' story is built up in these short pieces of narrative, but there was something about them that made it feel more like a creative writing exercise than the emotional tale it was supposed to be. After a little bit of stupidity I like the way the ending happened and felt like things were finally looking up for Charlie, which she needed so badly.

Years ago, I didn't want to write the story of my scars, or the story of being a girl with scars, because it is hard enough being a girl in the world, but try being a girl with scars on your skin in the world. In Glasgow’s riveting debut novel, readers are pulled close to Charlie’s raw, authentic emotions as she strains to make a jagged path through her new life. Love and trust prove difficult, and Charlie’s judgment is not well honed, but her will to survive is glorious.“ —Booklist, Starred review I'm just gonna admit it, I know nothing about cutters and I truly don't understand how pain makes someone feel better. As someone who is in near constant pain, I don't understand why someone would want more pain. The amount of emotional pain you would have be in to harm yourself to feel better must be ENORMOUS. It makes me sad and I hope you know that help is out there. A beautiful story filled with raw emotions and the heroine expressed it genuinely. She represents people who are unable to cope which lead them to darkness and struggles to find the light. Her journey isn't easy and she met people along the way. These people have their own dark stories that made them self-destructive too (alcohol, drugs, sex etc.) yet, they helped & motivated her to become whole again. What's more admirable? Her strength to get out of that darkness even if it's trying to drag her down. She let people in her life and she help herself not to go on that path again. I could never be more proud and I just want to cheer and hug her for all the things she'd been through. I am satisfied with the ending. It's realistic and I love it's not all about romance. so in this book we follow a girl named charlie who is a 17 year old girl who had a terrible life, including events such as rape, self harm, suicide attempt, abuse and loss. her actions were incredibly relatable and i’ll show it with some quotes but my issue was about the descriptions of past experiences. the things she go through presented so well, however the traumas that she went through didn’t executed in detail. it wasn’t like there were holes in the plot but the events were described so briefly that you still have questions about it even after finishing the book.

There is romance involved, but don’t get it twisted, but the romance was a good way to go because it helped the self-discovery aspect. So, books like Girl in Pieces are real-life stories where you can see the real scenario of people and their feelings. If you want to read more similar books, stay with me because I have a list for you. 7 Books Like Girl In Pieces I also felt like the author could have clarified a few things to us that are mentioned a lot in the book. This may seem out of the blue, but I hated Riley. It felt like he was using Charlie just for the drugs and for a distraction or someone to lean onto, which I'm pretty sure he was doing. And his and Charlie's relationship just made me far too uncomfortable. I thought that he was going to get redeemed at the end when certain scenes popped up, but I don't think he actually was. 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

Girl in Pieces has the breath of life; every character in it is fully alive. Charlie Davis’s complexities

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Her body tells her story, and shows us the human eye that she's so so so strong for still standing up and not giving up on herself.

Charlie went through so much in this book, that I just wanted to hold her, and tell her everything’s going to be alright.

Whether it's dealing with self-harm like the protagonist Charlotte, or an ED, or depression, or chronic illness, or alcohol addiction, or ANYTHING, recovery has no endpoint. You live with your physical or metaphorical scars forever. Yes, there are highs and lows. Yes, there is plenty of hope that you can be much better off ten years down the line, but when you battle with anything so deeply destructive and chronic, there is no such thing as "all the way better." we all keep, whether in our cupboards or our minds, the story of the mad girl is ultimately a story 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.