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A review by arcanewolf
Cut by Patricia McCormick
5.0
This may be my English Literature skills coming into action but I think I loved this book because I was able to see deeper into the story.
The book only has three chapters, but I think they represent the stages that go through Callie's mind and what she is thinking. In the first chapter, Callie never talks and she tries to stay away from the spotlight. Almost like the denial stage that people with a mental illness go through, in where they think they don't deserve help or that there's nothing wrong with them.
The second chapter, Callie starts to realize things about herself and the other girls she hangs out with at Sea Pines, or 'Sick Minds', as the girls call it. She starts to talk to other people and she even went as far to tell someone about another girl who has an eating disorder that she was hiding away food and purging.
McCormick has really picked up on the thoughts and feelings that go through someone with a mental illness or who self harms. I could relate really well from my own personal experience and it felt at times that I was Callie, that I was reading my own mind and feelings on paper.
I liked the ending, it's not direct but gives off a hopeful vibe that allows the reader to come up with their own ending.
The book only has three chapters, but I think they represent the stages that go through Callie's mind and what she is thinking. In the first chapter, Callie never talks and she tries to stay away from the spotlight. Almost like the denial stage that people with a mental illness go through, in where they think they don't deserve help or that there's nothing wrong with them.
The second chapter, Callie starts to realize things about herself and the other girls she hangs out with at Sea Pines, or 'Sick Minds', as the girls call it. She starts to talk to other people and she even went as far to tell someone about another girl who has an eating disorder that she was hiding away food and purging.
McCormick has really picked up on the thoughts and feelings that go through someone with a mental illness or who self harms. I could relate really well from my own personal experience and it felt at times that I was Callie, that I was reading my own mind and feelings on paper.
I liked the ending, it's not direct but gives off a hopeful vibe that allows the reader to come up with their own ending.