Title: Fragile Line
Author: Brooklyn Skye
Publisher: Entangled Teens
Pub Date: April 21, 2014
Pages: 315
Source: Netgalley
Rating: 4 Stars!
It can happen in a flash. One minute she’s kissing her boyfriend, the next she’s lost in the woods. Sixteen-year-old Ellie Cox is losing time. It started out small…forgetting a drive home or a conversation with a friend. But her blackouts are getting worse, more difficult to disguise as forgetfulness. When Ellie goes missing for three days, waking up in the apartment of a mysterious guy—a guy who is definitely not her boyfriend, her life starts to spiral out of control.
Perched on the edge of insanity, with horrific memories of her childhood leaking in, Ellie struggles to put together the pieces of what she’s lost—starting with the name haunting her, Gwen. Heartbreakingly beautiful, this poignant story follows one girl’s harrowing journey to finding out who she really is
Perched on the edge of insanity, with horrific memories of her childhood leaking in, Ellie struggles to put together the pieces of what she’s lost—starting with the name haunting her, Gwen. Heartbreakingly beautiful, this poignant story follows one girl’s harrowing journey to finding out who she really is
Hoooooolyyyy Craaaaap.
When I read the summary to this book I got so excited, it's a very intense summary. When I read the first few chapters I was worried it wouldn't hold through, but it kept getting better and better.
It went through all the phases’s of Ellies mental disorder:
Before she knew, Dealing with it, and starting the healing. Even though we (the reader) could see what
she had a mile away, Ellie didn’t even see it as an option. For the first half
of the book she only think she has blackouts, until she loses 3 days and her
boyfriend Shane, thinks she cheated on him.
It’s one of those books that sucks you in and makes you feel
everything the MC feels. For example I felt how scared Ellie was trying to
remember what she had done while blacked out. I felt her need for Shane and for
things to get back to normal.
But those were the good things, sadly there were a few inconsistencies,
Ellie has a childhood best fried Dani, but throughout the whole book she’s
hardly there and after Ellie gets diagnosed we don’t hear from her which is
strange. If my best friend has a bad cough I’m already making her soup and
buying balloons, yet Dani doesn’t care that her best friends life was falling
apart? Also later in the book we find out during some of her blackouts she took
drugs and alcohol , but when she wakes up she as no after taste or any symptoms
of withdrawal.
Even with those cons, Fragile
Line was still original and a must-read for everyone.
Sorry I didn’t have any quotes in this review, I got a copy
of this book from Netgalley in exchange for a review and had to use Aldiko to
read it. For whatever reason it wouldn’t let me bookmark or highlight any
quotes but hopefully there will be an update soon and I can re-read it too add
quotes.
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