A review by lovelyjanelle13
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman

4.0

As a type one diabetic who was diagnosed when I was five, now nineteen, it was so refreshing to read a book that I could relate to. I went through a similar mentality, albeit much younger, when I was ten. Before reading this the only media representation I’d seen of diabetics were completely inaccurate portrayals in doctor or police shows that get all the facts wrong. With Lucy as narrator it gives everyone an inside look and feeling of what it is to be a diabetic, the highs and the lows. The ending was a little too cheesy for me, the typical makeover scene but it hit a little close to home as I did the same thing when I felt this way, I cut it off and let it grow back out, dying it every color, changing what I wore and how I acted, desperate to figure out the key to what I had to be to make people think of me of something other that the sick girl, the reason I tried out for basketball and cheerleading until my senior year that I stopped caring, showed up to school in yoga pants most days because I don’t owe anyone anything and what mattered most was that on the days I could be at school, I was, and the others I was at home curled up in bed because of my health was for me too. Screw if people thought of me as the sick girl. I was going what I needed to do to live and I shouldn’t be judged for that.