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A review by katiecolson
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman
5.0
Reading Vlog: https://youtu.be/28noWOP4naI
I'm convinced this book is a written account of my high school experience. I'm suing for royalties.
Will you like this book? Almost surely not. To enjoy this you have to be two things - a type 1 diabetic and have been a goth for an extended period of your adolescence. Enter teenage Katie.
This is such a fantastic representation of life with diabetes. The main character thinks about it coooonstantly, which is very realistic to my own experience. But, while she tries so hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle, she is constantly beaten down by the disease. There are times when she stares at the blood sugar monitor and simply walks away because she doesn't want to know. She doesn't want a machine to tell her she's been bad. I can relate so strongly to that.
The way she stomachs the mental strain of diabetes is by curating this elaborate conspiracy of vampires being originally stemmed from undiagnosed diabetes. And when I tell you I fell whole-heartedly down that rabbit hole. This isn't a matter of 'Oh, yeah, I can see that'. This is 'Omg, this is fact. Excuse me while I tell everyone I've ever met what the true origin of vampires is!'.
Again, this is a NICHE book. But I adored it and am so happy that it exists.
I'm convinced this book is a written account of my high school experience. I'm suing for royalties.
Will you like this book? Almost surely not. To enjoy this you have to be two things - a type 1 diabetic and have been a goth for an extended period of your adolescence. Enter teenage Katie.
This is such a fantastic representation of life with diabetes. The main character thinks about it coooonstantly, which is very realistic to my own experience. But, while she tries so hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle, she is constantly beaten down by the disease. There are times when she stares at the blood sugar monitor and simply walks away because she doesn't want to know. She doesn't want a machine to tell her she's been bad. I can relate so strongly to that.
The way she stomachs the mental strain of diabetes is by curating this elaborate conspiracy of vampires being originally stemmed from undiagnosed diabetes. And when I tell you I fell whole-heartedly down that rabbit hole. This isn't a matter of 'Oh, yeah, I can see that'. This is 'Omg, this is fact. Excuse me while I tell everyone I've ever met what the true origin of vampires is!'.
Again, this is a NICHE book. But I adored it and am so happy that it exists.