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A review by laughlinesandliterature
Invincible by Amy Reed
4.0
*I received this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review*
This book is not your typical teenage girl has cancer book. This book is much more raw and gritty than that. This is Evie’s story about her terminal diagnosis, somehow magically going into remission. This is Evie’s story of not being able to deal.
There were will be readers who think Evie is selfish and a horrible person, but somehow I get her. It fucking sucks to finally accept your mortality, that you only have weeks to live, and then be told that your cancer has gone away. All of this on the heels of losing your best friend, and watching your other friend lose themselves every single day.
I get why Evie lost her ever-loving mind. Not to mention that her family and cancer-free friends are horribly condescending to her. If I were Evie I wouldn’t want anything to do with any of them because they treat her as if she is fragile, yet they don’t actually try to make her stronger. Her sister Jenica, is the only one who tries to treat as if she is normal and even then Jenica is undermined at every turn.
I have to spend a moment on Evie’s parents because ohmygod they are the absolute extreme’s in parenting. In the right corner, we have Evie’s mom who likes to turn a blind eye to everything that Evie does. She makes excuses for her, and then doesn’t make Evie own up to any of her bad decisions. In the left corner, we have her dad who overreacts to everything. He even does something horrible to at one point, but he never ever tries to get Evie help. I mean I know that if my kid had cancer, then got miraculously cured, and then started having issues with school, drugs, and disappearing for hours on end, I would totally lock her in her room, tell her she is disappointing, and that she has ruined their family. Except no. No, I would not. Her parents seriously need a reality check ASAP. Evie needs treatment and help, not judgement and it absolutely pisses me off that everyone in her life judges her. How about compassion, and how the hell did Evie get out of therapy? That’s some shit that her parents should have been making sure she did, except that I think her parents are actually a little disappointed they no longer have their martyr daughter.
The romance in this book was pretty light. I do have to question how Marcus didn’t see Evie’s addiction because it was pretty obvious. I liked Marcus because I felt like he was the one person who really wanted to help Evie instead of just being absolutely disappointed in her. Marcus had his own baggage though, and I understood why he couldn’t stick around and watch Evie drown in her pain.
I liked that at the end we start to see Evie really opening her eyes and seeing the reality of her choices. Realizing that she made poor choices, but she could try to be better and stop self-destructing. The book ended on a major cliff-hanger though. So I’m kind of dying to know what happens. I would give this book 3.5 out of 5 stars. The cliffhanger cost the book about a star, because I really wanted to at least see some kind of closure.
*This review was first posted to Moonlight Gleam Reviews http://moonlightgleam.com/2015/04/invincible-by-amy-reed-review.html*
This book is not your typical teenage girl has cancer book. This book is much more raw and gritty than that. This is Evie’s story about her terminal diagnosis, somehow magically going into remission. This is Evie’s story of not being able to deal.
There were will be readers who think Evie is selfish and a horrible person, but somehow I get her. It fucking sucks to finally accept your mortality, that you only have weeks to live, and then be told that your cancer has gone away. All of this on the heels of losing your best friend, and watching your other friend lose themselves every single day.
I get why Evie lost her ever-loving mind. Not to mention that her family and cancer-free friends are horribly condescending to her. If I were Evie I wouldn’t want anything to do with any of them because they treat her as if she is fragile, yet they don’t actually try to make her stronger. Her sister Jenica, is the only one who tries to treat as if she is normal and even then Jenica is undermined at every turn.
I have to spend a moment on Evie’s parents because ohmygod they are the absolute extreme’s in parenting. In the right corner, we have Evie’s mom who likes to turn a blind eye to everything that Evie does. She makes excuses for her, and then doesn’t make Evie own up to any of her bad decisions. In the left corner, we have her dad who overreacts to everything. He even does something horrible to at one point, but he never ever tries to get Evie help. I mean I know that if my kid had cancer, then got miraculously cured, and then started having issues with school, drugs, and disappearing for hours on end, I would totally lock her in her room, tell her she is disappointing, and that she has ruined their family. Except no. No, I would not. Her parents seriously need a reality check ASAP. Evie needs treatment and help, not judgement and it absolutely pisses me off that everyone in her life judges her. How about compassion, and how the hell did Evie get out of therapy? That’s some shit that her parents should have been making sure she did, except that I think her parents are actually a little disappointed they no longer have their martyr daughter.
The romance in this book was pretty light. I do have to question how Marcus didn’t see Evie’s addiction because it was pretty obvious. I liked Marcus because I felt like he was the one person who really wanted to help Evie instead of just being absolutely disappointed in her. Marcus had his own baggage though, and I understood why he couldn’t stick around and watch Evie drown in her pain.
I liked that at the end we start to see Evie really opening her eyes and seeing the reality of her choices. Realizing that she made poor choices, but she could try to be better and stop self-destructing. The book ended on a major cliff-hanger though. So I’m kind of dying to know what happens. I would give this book 3.5 out of 5 stars. The cliffhanger cost the book about a star, because I really wanted to at least see some kind of closure.
*This review was first posted to Moonlight Gleam Reviews http://moonlightgleam.com/2015/04/invincible-by-amy-reed-review.html*