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Fishtailing (2010)

by Wendy Phillips(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1550504118 (ISBN13: 9781550504118)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Coteau Books

review 1: Really dark. This book will leave you horrified and slightly nauseous. This is good. This is how the book should be. Because the subject matter is just as dark and terrifying. I don't understand the topic. not personally anyway. Self-harm, the manipulation all of it is never something I have had to deal with, so maybe that is why I was so grossed out by this book. I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I don't understand why people would go that far. I read this book for my English class. (Poetry project0 I would have never picked this book up on my own. And I would only recommend it for certain people. People like me, who just don't understand. I wouldn't recommend it for people who already have these problems, unless they promise to just read the last page. I only give ... morethree stars because I only just liked it. I read this at like midnight so I was tired and so maybe the feeling of horror was stronger because of that. But, really this book just left me too bummed out to give it more then three stars. I'm glad I read it though, and others should read it too. We don't talk about this stuff nearly enough, and when we do talk about it, we cut out the emotional part. This book sets the record straight.
review 2: Oh this made me mad! First it's a book written all in poems to submit to their English teacher. Ok - kind of an overdone technique nowadays, but I was willing to go with it. However, what I hated was the portrayal of the adults. Why is it that some YA authors decide that the only way to appeal to teens is to make the adult figures into complete insensitive twits? This book can be read in less than an hour, but I'm not sure you should even spend that much time on it. less

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