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S'està carregant… Cuts and Bruises (edició 2022)de Kelly O'Flaherty (Autor)
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"I'd imagine my family finding me; would they be surprised? Devastated? Relieved? Would I survive? Would they find me just at the last second, resuscitate me at the vital moment before I could slip away? I could see their angry faces flashing before my eyes, screaming selfish, selfish, selfish, how selfish can you be?" Life has become banal and monotonous for 16-year-old Samantha Ward. The blade she drags across her skin is the only thing that makes her feel alive, that makes her feel real. With the death of her beloved grandmother and the rejection of her best friend, Samantha falls ever further into the grips of her darkness, every day adding to the collection of marks on her skin. Desperate and tired of waiting for change, Samantha ventures out into the rain and finds herself drawn to the graveyard nearby. She stumbles across her classmate Michael Gallagher with a noose swaying behind him. Choosing careful words, Samantha convinces him to leave it behind. With an unspoken bond between them, a friendship blooms. But as Samantha struggles to keep her habit a secret, she realises that Michael is hiding his own secrets too. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Massive suicide, self-harm trigger warning.
The first 3rd of the book, the pacing was a bit slow. Time was confusing at the beginning of the book too. You can see that it's been days/months since something has happened, but it, everything seemed smudged together since there's no time headers. The setting does feel like high school all over again, every day is mostly the same.
If you're even slightly predisposed to self-harm, this book is so relatable! What one feels, what one thinks, what one hides, they're all true. At first, when Samantha was trying to explain her condition, it sounded like the usual classic definition of it, but as time goes on, it all starts to make sense. The author describes everything perfectly, shows everything through Sam's eyes and you start to feel how she feels too.
Around halfway mark, things picked up fast. First, something happened to Sam, everything finally peaking and spilling over.
Then when everything comes back down to normal again, another thing happened to Michael this time. And it just peaked even higher than the first time. I couldn't put the book down after the halfway mark, I was on the edge-of-my-seat and mostly crying as I'm reading since every lesson here, every thought, are exactly what someone in Sam's/Michael's position would have thought too. It's all so relatable!
I really love what Sam & Michael have together. Yes, they enabled each other, but they also help each other out. They both learned from their mistakes and became better because of it. I'm really glad it's a happy ending, though a vague happy ending. I would have liked to see something about Sam & Michael meeting up in college together as a bonus story or another epilogue for example.
Another note: this book was made in Ireland, so there's a few terms that was a bit confusing to American readers, for example: guards vs police, leaving certificate vs diploma, etc. ( )