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Sep 04, 2020Aven_reads rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Please, if you suffer or have suffered from: Any eating disorder, clinical depression, or self-harm, it's probably best you don't read this book. It's extremely triggering. Please be safe, and please be smart. Wintergirls is incredibly hard to read but impossible to put down. This is my first Laurie Halse Anderson book and I've already fallen in love with her writing style. Anderson dives headfirst and unapologetically into the deeps and darks of a young woman who just want to be as thin as can be. It's brutal, it's hard, and it's real. So many girls (and boys for that matter) suffer with body image issue and it just eats them up inside. There's not much I can really say. It's a brutal book, but it's important. It's brilliantly written and every character seems to slide off the pages. Again I must reiterate, it's triggering so please be safe. 4 stars out of 5.