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Blood Wounds (2011)

by Susan Beth Pfeffer(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0547496389 (ISBN13: 9780547496382)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Harcourt Children's Books

review 1: I'm not quite sure how I feel about this book. I'll definitely say that the description of the book is VERY misleading. I was expecting a suspense and was completely disappointed. It's more about the emotional struggles the character, Willa, faces after something traumatic happens to her family. I don't know if my review is biased because I expected something more from this book, but it was very boring to me.
review 2: Willa is 16 and doesn't really remember her biological father. She's lived with her stepfather for most of her life. On the outside she has the perfect blended family. But Willa knows that things aren't perfect. Her step-sister may live under the same roof as her but they live a completely different life. Their mother has money and they trave... morel the world, want for nothing, take tennis lessons, riding lessons and big plans for the future. Willa on the other hand knows that there is no money for her to take voice lessons, to go to college, to travel the world. She has also been raised to never voice these complaints/concerns. Instead she goes to the basement and cuts. Things go from bad to barely tolerable when she finds out that her estranged father has killed his other family in Texas and is heading across the country to her. Willa and her mother go into hiding but it is short term as the police find her father at her house with the decapitated head of a sister she never knew. Willa now must come to terms with being the daughter of a killer. And she seeks out the family she never knew. possible pitfalls for book talking: sparse cursing and descriptive violence The bulk of the book takes place in Texas where Willa was born. She goes there to attend the funeral of the sisters she never knew. She also learns more about her parents, her extended family and friends. It is a fairly decent book about seeing things with fresh eyes and coming to term with shadows from the past. I didn't really like the shallow touching of cutting. Willa starts off as a cutter, doesn't cut for most of the book and then at the end realizes that she needs to stop cutting. I think that if one were a cutter and found out that her biological father had severe mental issues then violently killed his family one would cut. I would have liked it if she struggled a little more with the subject before coming to terms with it. less

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