Wintergirls

Summary

Wintergirls is the story about to friends named Lia and Cassie. They were in a competition to be skinnier thus becoming wintergirls alive but not living frozen in small bodies. Then one day Cassie loses the biggest thing of all. Her life. Having Lia left behind she blames the whole thing on herself causes her to do painful and scaring things to herself as punishment for not saving her. 

Opinion

This story was quite fantastic. It really had an insight on what anorexic people do to stay that skinny. Obviously you starve yourself but to the extent Lia did was horrifying. Lia wanted to eat only 500 calories a day. At one point she weighted eighty nine pounds, and still wanted to be skinnier.  When Lia was 'hurting herself' I could barley read it. It was way too graphic for me, sometimes I had to even put the book down! As the book went on she starved herself to be thinner but she did it because she wanted to ignore the hurt she saw in her life. Divorced parents, doctor mom who she can barely get along with a Dad who barley notices her. The friendship between Cassie and Lia was sad. Even more upsetting when Lia kept seeing her hallucinations everywhere telling her that shewas going to join her. The end was so great though, it was like a rainbow after a nasty thunderstorm. I would recommend this to again girls who enjoy a girl who through all her struggles tries her best to keep the most important thing hope.