I am honestly so conflicted about this book. I wanted to like it, I really did, and sometimes I did actually like it, but the writing and execution for me were the biggest issues. It was funny sometimes, but also just so strange. I can't really say what I didn't like about it, I just didn't like it. When a previously unknown half-sister is discovered, Tiger becomes her charge, and together they reach out to their incarcerated father and try to navigate an uncertain (but hopefully forward-looking) future as a family. Secondary characters feed the narrative and provide balance to Tiger in her journey, which she measures in minutes since her mother’s death.

How To Make Friends With The Dark A Series? Is How To Make Friends With The Dark A Series?

The book could’ve been cut in half, and we could’ve had a sequel. In fact, that’s what 90% of the last half of the book feels like. It could’ve been a decent sequel, with a bit of re writing and editing. I almost feel like this should be required reading for anyone who has lost something, especially unexpectedly. Grief is long and terrible and deep and painful and has its own timeline. You cannot rush it, push it, skip over it or wish it away. It is inevitable. It will let you know when it’s done with you. And those who’ve never lost someone cannot and will not ever understand this. But there isn't a single word in the universe that you can think of that would describe the way you feel right now.” I want to hurt everyone right now. I want to break things so the world looks like how I feel inside: splintered into a million bloody and sharp pieces.”Girl in pieces" war keine einfache Lektüre für mich, dementsprechend vorsichtig bin ich an " How to make friends with the dark" herangegangen, was sich für mich aber vergleichsweise leichter lesen ließ, da ich mit Tod und Trauer noch nicht so oft in Berührung gekommen bin. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. You get out of the car and the sun hurts and the ground hurts and even the stupid air hurts. You feel skinned. Like whatever held you together has been peeled away. You half expect to look down and see your heart hanging out, a slow-beating, nearly dead thing. Your legs wobble and your mouth tastes dry and your mother is dead. So Grace a.k.a Tiger’s tragic journey after her loosing her mother is so realistic so sad but also so genuine, poignant and easy to connect.

How to Make Friends with the Dark – Author Kathleen Glasgow How to Make Friends with the Dark – Author Kathleen Glasgow

Tiger’s new boyfriend, Kai Henderson, has invited her to the school dance but she doesn’t know how to break the news to her mum, especially when she’s spent the last two days lying on the couch with what appears to be a migraine, but when Tiger finds a drawer full of unpaid bills she begins to wonder if there’s more to the story. The book is very unique, heart-breaking and has strong statements within that you'll love while reading it! Girl In Pieces was among my most favourite reads of 2018, I can tell that this will also be in my top reads because it's such an amazing book.How to Make Friends with the Dark is a book that examines grief, friendship, transformation, and love. It’s a book that discusses how no one prepares you for the hollowness of grief, for living without your foundation, and where to go from now on. How sometimes when we get answers, we’re left with more questions, regrets for the price we had to pay. It’s a story about listening to your heart beat again. Aside from this, Tiger has the usual teen issues to navigate at school – mean girl Lupe Hidalgo takes every opportunity to ridicule Tiger’s choice of clothes and while best friend Cake is always there for her, sometimes the pressure she puts on Tiger to break free from her mother’s suffocating hold, makes things tense. I’d say when it was at its best, it was most of the first half and the second foster home she was in. And I got excited when her sister showed up. But then??? Down hill. We weren’t building to anything. I just flat ass didn’t care the last portion of the book.

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Tiger’s life changed with a simple phone call. Her mother has died. That’s when darkness descended on her otherwise average life.

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Strong Female Friendships. Cake and Tiger (literally some of craziest names I've ever encountered in contemporary fiction) have such a solid friendship. It's beautiful. When it would have been easy for Tiger to push Cake away or for Cake to disappear when things get hard and Tiger's emotions are messy, their friendship weathers the storm. Cake is always there for Tiger, almost to the detriment of herself. Tiger's mother may be overprotective, but it has always been Tiger and her mother against the world.

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The plot takes an unexpected turn and the latter half of the book becomes about how to keep going on despite an enormous hole in your heart through friendship and discovering a new family relationship when Tiger finds out she has an older sister, a sister who represents adults who do their best to make lives of these poor children a bit better.The notion that you are not alone no matter how isolated in your grief you feel. For the better part of the book, Tiger feels alone in her grief. She feels like an island floating out to sea in darkness she alone can feel surrounded by smiling happy faces. But she eventually realizes, she is not alone. She isn't the only to lose a loved one let alone lose a parent. Wondrous. She and Bonita are crazy for the affirmation talk. Cake likes to say their mission in life is to Build a Better Girl Than They Were. “You know,” she said once, “their moms probably put them on diets of cottage cheese before prom and told them to keep their legs closed around boys.”