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Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist, has not felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially since she cannot remember her abuser's identity, and she copes with the pressure by cutting herself.
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I can't say enough good things about this book. Scars is an intense story about fifteen-year-old Kendra whose repressed memories of sexual abuse started resurfacing six months prior to the action in the novel. She cuts herself as a way to cope with the emotional pain. This is one of those books that I'll probably remember for the rest of my life. Its a powerful story gracefully written. I highly recommend it. ( )
  Chris.Wolak | Oct 13, 2022 |
I can’t believe I even read this? All that and now men are monsters..? Never again ( )
  Islam_A | Apr 29, 2020 |
While I admire the author's courage for writing about such a difficult subject matter, I just could not like this book. The writing style was okay but I felt the dialogue was unrealistic in so many scenes that it kept jarring me out of the story. Also, the relationship between Kendra and Meghan was just completely unrealistic and I predicted the "plot twist" at the end after reading the first chapter. ( )
  Kayla.Krantz | Feb 14, 2020 |
Aside from Wintergirls, this has to be the best book I've read! ( )
  perksofbeingpeculiar | Jan 17, 2019 |
This book was powerful. It was descriptive and expressive. It dealt with mature subjects in a realistic light, not in a campy or overdone manner. This is probably not the right expression of what I mean, but I do have to say that it also had the element of a good mystery to it as well, because I didn't suspect the person who actually was committing these acts against Kendra until I read it.


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  Melissalovesreading | Sep 30, 2018 |
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