by Chelsea Sedoti
Thanks to Net Galley and to Sourcebooks Fire for offering me an ARC of this book that I voluntarily chose to review. This Young Adult novel is told in the first person by the protagonist, Hawthorn, a girl named after the tree, not the writer, as she has to clarify many times throughout the book. She...
Oh boy, this one is going to be rough. Look, this is not some teen sleuth finding out what happened to Lizzie. This is all about Hawthorne being unstable, unlikeable, and full of herself. This is all about perpetuating the bullshit and stigma around mental health. This is another mediocre white girl...
A special thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Hawthorn, an awkward teenager, becomes obsessed with solving the disappearance of Lizzie Lovett, a girl who mysteriously vanished while on a camping trip with her boyfriend. Her overactive imagination i...
Wow! Thank God that's over! I almost gave up on this book when I was at the halfway point because it was so awful and with so many good books out there waiting to be read I had a really hard time justifying making myself suffer through one that I didn't enjoy at all. But I hate leaving any book unfi...
I loved this book. I think this is the one of the best YA books that I've ever read. It dealt with a high school girl trying so hard to figure out why she was so different from everybody else, not realizing that everyone else was having the same serious issues. Her name is Hawthorne, so she spends a...
When teenage outcast Hawthorn Creely finds out Lizzie Lovett, a girl she didn't really know at all but spent years both envying and hating, went missing while camping with her boyfriend, she decides to look for her. She becomes obsessed with Lizzie. She comes up with a wacky idea about what happened...