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How to Make Friends with the Dark

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just like in kathleen glasgow’s previous book, i loved the first half of it so much, while the rest was really lacking when comparing the both. Those last 200 pages are gripping, but I just feel this book would have benefited from reducing the cyclical thoughts and spreading out the action over more pages. The author touched on the surface of so much, but never really delved into the other characters or their stories.

How to Make Friends with the Dark is breathtaking and heartbreaking, and I loved it with all my heart. I received a copy of this book to promote on Instagram, but I was interested in the book before the promotion and so I read it right away. I want to break things so the world looks like how I feel inside: splintered into a million bloody and sharp pieces. Thaddeus came out of nowhere and became her friend in a very short period of time, which felt rushed and unrealistic to me, though I appreciated that he didn't just become a love interest as these characters tend to. We meet Tiger Tolliver at her most broken—at her darkest moment—and yet, somehow, How to Make Friends with the Dark teaches us how to let the light in.The writing was fantastic, the characters were insightful and brimming with depth, and the theme was topical and on point. The next part of the book is watching Tiger go from home to home while in the middle of mourning a mother she loved dearly, but barely knew. I'm the kind of person who emotionally connects to literally everything in a book, especially of this genre, so that was a very strange thing for me. Tiger was pushed into a world she knows nothing about without the one person she relies on the most.

The various odd nicknames were jarring, as I've literally never met a single person in my entire life who honestly went by Cake or Crash or something like that. My grandmother had a garden full of plants, a house filled with fishes and turtles and she loved hosting. In this book we can learn about grieve, the death of a parent, what happens if you aren't already 18 and what resilience can look like. From page one, Tiger Tolliver grabs your heart with her pain, her courage, her humor—and she doesn't let go.It was such an honest depiction of grief and several individuals journey as they are forced to navigate it. We see Grace literally turns into a tiger and shows her claws against the bullies, starts to make new friends by discovering outside world and finally understands she is not alone on this world. Ca și cum mergi fără să-ți fi rămas prea multă piele, ca și cum toată lumea îți vede oasele și inima, acum, că mama ta e moartă? I loved this book’s approach to the importance of sisterhood, friendship and sharing yourself instead of bottling up everything inside and living with paranoias.

I had such a hard time figuring out who the speaker was sometimes, because dialogue would continue into the next paragraph, but the new speaker rule was followed, even though the speaker was often the same. She made sure I had manners, greeted people, said my farewells, did my chores and handled all my responsibilities. Who would ever guess that it isn’t your bones or your blood or your heart that keeps everything humming along inside you, it’s your freaking mom, and when she’s dead, it all disappears. We can experience something about friendships, families, support and letting go, how support groups work, and about the childcare system in Amerika. But while I was at the hospital, I was constantly being moved from room to room and the staff was changing.

I’d say when it was at its best, it was most of the first half and the second foster home she was in. Insgesamt finde ich es sehr beeindruckend, wie gut Kathleen Glasgow das Innenleben traumatisierter Jugendlicher versteht und in Worte fassen kann.

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