A review by thisbookishcat
Cut by Patricia McCormick

dark emotional sad

2.0

I've read many books about depression, mental illnesses, and people in these sorts of situations. I am also someone who has experienced many of these thoughts and situations in my youth (which is when I read this book), and I feel this is not at all an accurate representation of what it is like. This feels like someone wanted to write a book and capitalize on the fact that these sorts of novels were selling very well at the time. I don't feel that the author has ever experienced anything like what is described in the book, nor did she talk to anyone who had these sorts of experiences. Honestly, it felt more like she read a source about depression and self-harm from the late 90s or early 2000s, when people still weren't that open about what was really going on inside their heads, and rolled with it.

I would not recommend this to anyone who is looking for material they can relate to, or material that they want to read to try to relate to someone they know. 
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