Lovely by Allison Liddelle
Length: 136 pages
Format: Nook Book
Price: FREE
Author Website: There doesn't appear to be one, so here's the B&N description (photo credit)
Basic Premise: Young and severely depressed Alice dreams about killing herself constantly. She somehow gets the chance, time after time, to kill herself in various ways before she realizes that maybe there is something to life that is indeed worth living.
My Take: 2 out of 10
This title is grossly misleading. I read this book because 1) it was free and 2) the tagline sounded NOTHING like what I wrote above. By the time I figured out what was really going on, I was 30 or so pages in and figured, "What the heck? It's only another 100 pages. I might as well read it - maybe it will expand my horizons." Well, I guess it sort of did. The tone was DARK DARK DARK (I don't generally do dark) and this girl is seriously depressed. I think it probably is impossible for people who aren't depressed to understand what it's like to be depressed, but I guess I still find it odd that this girl is constantly dreaming - no, fantasizing - about different ways to end her life. It's creepy. It reminded me a little of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, except that I really enjoyed that one. The book is also riddled with profanities and typeos, so much so that I started automatically correcting in my head, much the way I do with my students' writing at school. Come to find out after I read it, it is a self-published book. May not have read it if I had realized that to start.
Format: Nook Book
Price: FREE
Author Website: There doesn't appear to be one, so here's the B&N description (photo credit)
Basic Premise: Young and severely depressed Alice dreams about killing herself constantly. She somehow gets the chance, time after time, to kill herself in various ways before she realizes that maybe there is something to life that is indeed worth living.
My Take: 2 out of 10
This title is grossly misleading. I read this book because 1) it was free and 2) the tagline sounded NOTHING like what I wrote above. By the time I figured out what was really going on, I was 30 or so pages in and figured, "What the heck? It's only another 100 pages. I might as well read it - maybe it will expand my horizons." Well, I guess it sort of did. The tone was DARK DARK DARK (I don't generally do dark) and this girl is seriously depressed. I think it probably is impossible for people who aren't depressed to understand what it's like to be depressed, but I guess I still find it odd that this girl is constantly dreaming - no, fantasizing - about different ways to end her life. It's creepy. It reminded me a little of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, except that I really enjoyed that one. The book is also riddled with profanities and typeos, so much so that I started automatically correcting in my head, much the way I do with my students' writing at school. Come to find out after I read it, it is a self-published book. May not have read it if I had realized that to start.
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