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A review by lawbooks600
My Spare Heart by Jared Thomas
3.0
Representation: First Australian main character
Trigger warnings: Assault, drugs, divorce and alcohol themes
6/10, Looking back at this I definitely wouldn't consider picking this one up again and even back then when I first read it I didn't enjoy it which is a shame since I've never seen this author before up to that point but this book he's written which drags on for 400 pages has a lot of glaring flaws which I'll look at later on. It starts off with the main character Phoebe living her new life after her parents split; it seemed that I would enjoy this one but unfortunately this is where the flaws start to appear. I had issues with the writing style since it felt too juvenile for a young adult book since it's mostly comprised of simple sentences and limited vocabulary and most of the characters were flat except Phoebe who only developed her character towards the end but only after some bad choices she made. The only other characteristics she had was that she was a sports fan and a good swimmer and sportswoman, that's it. Anyways her mother had alcohol problems and Phoebe unknowingly goes on a self-destructive path by doing drugs and marijuana and I suppose that's for her to develop her character but I didn't like that part nor did I like how it preached about Indigenous Australians, racism, climate change, and health. Eventually she stops going on that figurative road and eventually heals herself and that wraps up the book nicely.
Trigger warnings: Assault, drugs, divorce and alcohol themes
6/10, Looking back at this I definitely wouldn't consider picking this one up again and even back then when I first read it I didn't enjoy it which is a shame since I've never seen this author before up to that point but this book he's written which drags on for 400 pages has a lot of glaring flaws which I'll look at later on. It starts off with the main character Phoebe living her new life after her parents split; it seemed that I would enjoy this one but unfortunately this is where the flaws start to appear. I had issues with the writing style since it felt too juvenile for a young adult book since it's mostly comprised of simple sentences and limited vocabulary and most of the characters were flat except Phoebe who only developed her character towards the end but only after some bad choices she made. The only other characteristics she had was that she was a sports fan and a good swimmer and sportswoman, that's it. Anyways her mother had alcohol problems and Phoebe unknowingly goes on a self-destructive path by doing drugs and marijuana and I suppose that's for her to develop her character but I didn't like that part nor did I like how it preached about Indigenous Australians, racism, climate change, and health. Eventually she stops going on that figurative road and eventually heals herself and that wraps up the book nicely.