Post #7: Book Review for Cut by Patricia McCormick

Hello guys I am back with another book review, I know this is weird but the book Cut only took me one week to finish. Surprisingly this book is only 150 pages long, it is one of those books that you can read for a quick read and relish when you need something to read, for the first impressions of the book I thought that the book was going to be very mind numbing and dull; having no plot.

For this book's rating I am going to give this book 3 out of 5 stars. To start off my reasoning for this rating, I thought that the book's plot wasn't as eye catching as it was meant to be. I mean the plot was pretty decent for an 150 page book but I feel like the author could have elaborated on the plot more. But on the back of the book it did state that Cut was Patricia McCormick's first book she had ever written. So I couldn't put my standards up too high for this one. Another reason for my rating is because in the book they never told the author how Callie got into the care center. You have knowledge that she cuts herself and they thought that she was putting her life at risk but you never got the inside scoop on what her life was like before the care center. I thought that when I started to read the book it was very confusing to understand what was going on because you didn't get the knowledge from what happened in her earlier life. Lastly, I wished that the author would have made an epilogue to the end of the book because in the end (I am not going to spoil it) but it kind of leaves you on a cliff hanger wondering what happened to the main character Callie.

Mini summary of the book:

In the book Cut written by Patricia McCormick, the story is told about this girl named Callie. Callie was a normal teenage girl until her brother got sick. Due to the fact that her brother got sick her mom volunteered to quit her job to take care of her brother, while her father is always at work supporting the family. Because of all this stress Callie has formed an addiction of cutting herself over the past year. After her parents caught her cutting herself one day while her was hiding they ended up sending her to this facility for girls, called Sea Pines. Sea Pines is a care center for girls of all ages that suffer from the same addiction like Callie, or eating disorders, drug abuse, behavioral issues, etc. Callie refused to talk to anyone, that includes her parents or relatives, any other girls in the programs, or even her therapist. In the program Callie is scared to express her feelings about cutting. The girls try to encourage her to talk about her addiction but her refuse. After a new girl arrives named Amanda, Callie finds out that she suffers from cutting too. From Amanda she learns to become more open and starts talking in group and with her therapist.

Post #6: Starting a new book

So for today's blog I don't have much to write about. I just started a new book called Cut by Patricia McCormick. For my first impressions on this book it seems like a very depressing book becasue on the title it has this long quote that says "Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and body spiralled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next......"(pg. 17).  From the quote I can predict that this book is going to probabily be about a girl that cuts her self and is trying to cope with hard times or might have family issues. But I aam only on page 11 so I don't really know what to expect. I hope that this book has a interesting plot but on the back of the book it stated that this was Patricia McCormick's first book that she had even written.

post #5: book review for The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

I am going to be honest. This is really not my type of book. Most of the time I do not read romance novels. I stick to more of adventure/ dystopian novels. But this time I wanted to try something new because I wanted to check this book out since I heard it was a decent book from a friend. So I was like why not give this book a try. Even though when I first saw the cover I knew it was probably going to be one of those teenage cheesy romance novels.



For my rating of this book I would have given it 3.5 stars. My reasoning behind my rating is because, 1. the book was very short(236 pages in total if you were curious), 2 the plot was very predictable from the start(I will give a mini summary down below trying not to give away the ending but you could probably guess it without reading the book) and lastly the book was not that exciting at all. But there were somethings that I liked in this book like how the conflict in the book was set up between the main character and her father and how they were going to try and start over after her parents divorce. I also like the romantic friendship that Hadley and Oliver developed over the book. And lastly I loved the ending and how that turned out.

A mini summasry of the book:
To start off the main setting of the book took place in London. In the begining we meet the main character, Hadley Sullivan, who is a 17 year old girl. We find out that she is on her way to the airport to fly to London to arrive at her father's wedding to meet her new step-mother just right after her parents just got a divorce. She ends up missing her flight by 4 minutes and is going to be late for the wedding. When she gets on the next flight she meets this boy named Oliver. On the plane she discusses and talks to Oliver about her parents and how to is going to tackle the wedding. Through out the books she tries to forget her father and suddenly falls in love with Oliver. Through out the book she tries to regain her trust with her father.
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