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. She is the writer of the novel Girl in Pieces, which was a best selling novel with the New York Times. It has been named to the top of many best of lists by BN Teen, Teen Vogue, Goop, EW.com, Refinery 29, and others. There is the person people see on the outside and 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.”

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. Girl in Pieces is a New York bestselling debut book. This book takes 180 turns and multiple twists in Charlie and Glasgow’s own words. She aimed to write an uplifting, personal story that would inspire hope in anyone affected by self-harm. It’s a tragedy with a conflict between person versus self. The book teaches you to overcome and grow from the things you’ve dealt with. Each section is very short, like a diary.

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Good Girl, Bad Blood is the sequel to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. The story is about Pip, who was doing a school project on a true crime case in the first book, and she solved it. So, she has little desire to be a detective anymore because it ended badly for her family and her in the first book. Now she’s not feeling it. She doesn’t want to put her family in danger, but she is doing a true crime podcast instead. I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?” Tiger does her best and finds that there are people out there that she can rely on. She makes her own type of family with people who are related to her and people who are not. They’re the ones that are going to be with her, and Tiger finds out that she has a lot more love around her than she imagined. They’re part of the journey moving forward along with her.

Charlie went through so much in this book, that I just wanted to hold her, and tell her everything’s going to be alright. Still Beating is one of the darkest books on the list. It’s a dark romance, not because of some of the things the characters have going on in their heads, but circumstances, everything. We have Dean and Cora, and they are longtime enemies. They don’t get along. However, Dean is marrying Cora’s older sister. They are engaged. So Dean’s always around, and they have to deal with each other. 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.So then you get them at the beginning of this book meeting every year throughout high school, and you see in Charlie’s POV that she’s feeling better mentally. Kellan does commit suicide, and Charlie is left reeling a little bit, and she’s left with guilt. Then we jump into the future a few years, where we spend most of the story, and we’re still with Charlie. Glasgow has written a Girl, Interrupted for a new generation. Her assured debut is a mad-girl story 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. The style of writing was unique and beautiful. All the characters have different attributes, but when it came down to the entire story, there were parts where I felt for these characters and others where I didn’t feel for them. I felt there was a little bit of a disconnect with them. 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."