The writing itself often feels forced – conversations full of false-sounding vocabulary, journal entries that read more like English class essays than heart-felt, private explorations, and self-discovery that feels like it’s been taken directly out of examples in a self-help book. Narrative devices aside, it’s a standard “teenage girl in personal turmoil” and “getting back towards wellness” story. Assuming this style of letting out tiny bits of info, only to be stopped by a change of subject, was employed to keep up the dramatic tension before the “big reveal” at the end, it actually only served to annoy this reader by drawing out the plot unnecessarily. We pick up her story mid-stream as she’s already been sent to a psychiatric facility to help her with her bulimia and are slowly filled in on her back story in little snippets. Janie, meanwhile, feels overlooked, ugly and incapable. Her perfect older sister who graduated from Yale just got married. Her mother and father are both motivated, put-together people who expect a lot from her.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |