Name: Girl in pieces
Rating: 4.06070796460177 (565 reviews)
ISBN: 9781101934746

Kathleen Glasgow

As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.

Girl in pieces

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.

Girl in Pieces

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For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes Kathleen Glasgow's debut novel about a girl who has lost everything--almost even herself. Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At eighteen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The thick glass of a mason jar cuts deep, and the pain washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. A deeply moving portrait of a teenage girl on the verge of losing herself and the journey she must take to survive in her own skin, Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It's a story you won't be able to look away from.

i must’ve read this back in 6th grade, maybe? it was relatable then, so I wonder if it still holds up. I don't remember this being my favourite book, but i definitely enjoyed it. 

marlena w

Nel Cleys

Sam Chew

although i read this book 3 years ago, i remember not really enjoying it. during the time i was reading this book, i was struggling with self-harm as well, so i thought that it would hit home and help me feel a bit better about my experiences that i was going through, but it really didn't do much for me. i found this book somewhat boring and hard to get through. i wouldn't say it's the worst book of all time, but i definitely would not read it again, but again, everyone has different taste, and it's just not my cup of tea!

Autumn Davis

This book shares love, struggle, and emotion. I read this when I had recently gone through a similar expierence and I found it easy to relate to the story on many deep levels. I think this book can be a hard read for some people but I could almost see myself in the story which made it easier to read and relate to.

Eve Fickes

coco nini

“Buy some goddamn short sleeves and fuck the world, you know?”

𑣲 | “that's how hearts get broken, you know. when you believe in promises.”

warmed my heart i’m so glad charlie got out and got to make a better life for herself. 

also her friendship with blue was EVERYTHING. but im kinda sad we didn’t find out if anything happened with her and riley. like if they ever got back together, became friends? idk just always love closure and never got it

𑣲 | “that's how hearts get broken, you know. when you believe in promises.”

— 4/5 


warmed my heart i’m so glad charlie got out and got to make a better life for herself. 
also her friendship with blue was EVERYTHING. but im kinda sad we didn’t find out if anything happened with her and riley. like if they ever got back together, became friends? idk just always love closure and never got it

Very very slow start, I nearly DNF’d but I pushed through.

 and so I am familiar with her masterful story telling of highly sensitive personal topics, however, this one just didn’t hit for me. It felt like the story was dragging, though I suppose that can also be interpreted as the reality of the life of the protagonist and the life of someone struggling with a substance abuse disorder and self harm.

I also feel the author painted a much too sympathetic light on a character that was just straight up an abusive pedophile, especially with the sanitisation of his character in the end. And for that reason, I can only give this book 2.5 stars.

Nana O

Very very slow start, I nearly DNF’d but I pushed through.

I’ve read another Glasgow book You’d Be Home Now and so I am familiar with her masterful story telling of highly sensitive personal topics, however, this one just didn’t hit for me. It felt like the story was dragging, though I suppose that can also be interpreted as the reality of the life of the protagonist and the life of someone struggling with a substance abuse disorder and self harm.

I also feel the author painted a much too sympathetic light on a character that was just straight up an abusive pedophile, especially with the sanitisation of his character in the end. And for that reason, I can only give this book 2.5 stars.

Very realistic and relatable as someone with a similar story. I couldn't have read this 15 years ago without being incredibly triggered, so I will say that it is not for everyone, particularly not for someone who currently struggles with self harm. But as someone with that firmly in the past, it felt comforting and validating to see my story represented, as it can feel lonely having a past few people around me can relate to. I felt a greater sense of love and empathy towards my past self reading this story.

Silje Løvli Lorentsen

rating: 4.5 stars don't talk to me cause i literally feel like all my energy and soul have been sucked out of me pffft. i'm going to stay in bed and cry while 

 play on a loop in the background. k bye.

Tali ⋆.˚🦋༘⋆

[review coming soon] 

rating: 4.5 stars don't talk to me cause i literally feel like all my energy and soul have been sucked out of me pffft. i'm going to stay in bed and cry while "making the bed” and "logical" from GUTS play on a loop in the background. k bye.

I always find it hard to review books that I don’t enjoy and sadly this is one of them. It’s such a tricky book to rate as I can tell that it’s been well – researched and a lot of time, energy and effort has gone into creating it but I just didn’t click with it and that is okay – Not every book is for everyone and this just happened to not be a book for me.

Our main character Charlie is in an inpatient facility after a suicide attempt, after Charlie is released from the facility and goes to live somewhere far away. She gets a job and finds somewhere to live. Starts trying to make it on her own and all that.

This is a book that has lots of Trigger warnings in so please do go and look these up before you consider reading. For me I just found the voice of the main Character too flat and I just couldn’t connect with her which made this book difficult for me to get drawn into and I think part of this was down to the chapters, somewhere a few pages others where half a page long and It just didn’t feel connected to me personally which made it difficult to follow especially as some had time jumps between them. 

Ian Brakspear

I always find it hard to review books that I don’t enjoy and sadly this is one of them. It’s such a tricky book to rate as I can tell that it’s been well – researched and a lot of time, energy and effort has gone into creating it but I just didn’t click with it and that is okay – Not every book is for everyone and this just happened to not be a book for me.

 

Our main character Charlie is in an inpatient facility after a suicide attempt, after Charlie is released from the facility and goes to live somewhere far away. She gets a job and finds somewhere to live. Starts trying to make it on her own and all that.

 

This is a book that has lots of Trigger warnings in so please do go and look these up before you consider reading. For me I just found the voice of the main Character too flat and I just couldn’t connect with her which made this book difficult for me to get drawn into and I think part of this was down to the chapters, somewhere a few pages others where half a page long and It just didn’t feel connected to me personally which made it difficult to follow especially as some had time jumps between them. 

Es ist einfach nichts für schwache Nerven. Ich konnte es ab einem Teil nicht mehr lesen, weil es so „schlimm“ war. Meiner Meinung nach, kann ich es nicht weiter empfehlen. 

Sofia 

This is my favorite book and it is fucking angelic

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