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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is the story of Amy. This is the story of Ella. This is a story that takes the phrase "mean girls" to a whole new level. We all know that there are people that are good and people that are bad and this means people of all ages. But the darkness of the soul that this book brought out was almost too much for me to bear. It reminds us of just how peer pressure can change a person, and rarely for the beter. It also shows that even with the bery best intentions, friends can hurt your feelings, or worse. To be honest, I hope will read another book very soon, to try to un-remember some of the things I read. More importantly, I want to un-feel them. This story was too much for me, and I would not want a young teen to read it. Or anyone who might be dragged into the dispiritedness that this story exudes. The writing itself wasn't bad. But I think that a very important element was left out of this story.. any kind of lightness or hopefulness. Thus there was no balance. There was only bleakness and lack of hope. no reviews | add a review
Knowing that two friends are lying and keeping secrets about the night another friend killed herself, seventeen-year-old Ella searches for the truth. No library descriptions found. |
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Fall to Pieces is a dark contemporary young adult novel that doesn't pull punches. It tackles real teen issues such as drinking, sexuality, suicide, peer pressure, bullying (from the point of view of the bullies), and death. These teens are not sweetness and light. They are bullies that target people for fun without realizing the damage they do. Even after Amy died, many people spoke ill of her because of her bullying ways, which is weird. People usually bend over backwards to make dead people seem like saints even if they clearly weren't. I appreciate the view of bullying from the bullies point of view because I don't see it written about much. It provides insight to motivations behind it and shows that bullies aren't evil people. Even though a lot of people take issue with it, I like the language used. There are a lot of curse words, but that's how some people actually talk. It's refreshing to see after so many authors make up their own new words that mean the same thing to avoid using the real ones.
Even though the plot is like taking the crazy adrenaline junkie/suicidal part of New Moon and making a whole book about it, I liked it overall. Even though it seems melodramatic, teens are melodramatic and people deal with grief in their own way. It may be self destructive and life threatening, but it's still a way. Ella, despite her mistakes and issues, is a sympathetic character because we don't just see her actions, but her thoughts and her mind set. She may be annoying and cruel sometimes, but she's taking out her guilt, confusion, and grief on other people and it makes her seem more real. I really like Tristan, the Explosive Boy. He truly has Ella's best interests at heart and shows he cares about her way more than her friends. His own secrets and tragedies are wearing on him. He's the most interesting and relatable character in the book.
Fall to Pieces is an impressive debut that tackles realistic issues. The plot takes surprising twists and turns along the way and shocked me in the end. I never could have predicted the outcome of the book. I'm usually not super interested in contemporary teen reads, but I like this one. I would recommend it to people not afraid of realistic, depressing situations and curse words. ( )