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    How to Make Friends with the Dark
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    How to Make Friends with the Dark

    By Kathleen Glasgow

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    'A BOOK AS FIERCE, TENDER, AND RARE AS ITS APTLY NAMED HEROINE, TIGER.'

    -- Meg Leder, author of Letting Go of Gravity


    It's the brightest day of summer and it's dark outside. It's dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart.

    Here is what happens when your mother dies.

    That's how it feels for Tiger. It's always been Tiger and her mother against the world. Then, on a day like any other, Tiger's mother dies. And now it's Tiger, alone.

    Here is how you learn to make friends with the dark.

    From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girl in Pieces comes a new heartbreaking story about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness.

    PRAISE FOR HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE DARK:

    'A book as fierce, tender, and rare as its aptly named heroine, Tiger. How to Make Friends with the Dark is a gorgeously nuanced meditation on grief and family, and the incredible love that can pull you through the darkest of times.' -- Meg Leder, author of Letting Go of Gravity

    'Kathleen Glasgow is the rare type of skilled storyteller that knows you have to hurt your characters before putting them back together. I loved every word of this lyrical and devastating novel.' -- Kara Thomas, author of The Cheerleaders

    'In this raw, powerful, and heartbreaking meditation on loss and grief, Glasgow writes with unflinching beauty. We meet Tiger Tolliver at her most broken -- at her darkest moment -- and yet, somehow, How to Make Friends With the Dark teaches us how to let the light in.' -- Julie Buxbaum, NYT bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things

    PRAISE FOR GIRL IN PIECES:

    'Girl, Interrupted meets Speak.' -- Refinery29.com

    'A dark yet powerful read.' -- PasteMagazine.com

    'One of the most affecting novels we have read.' -- Goop.com

    'Breathtaking and beautifully written.' -- Bustle

    'A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page.' -- Nicola Yoon, #1 NYT bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781460705698
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    How to Make Friends with the Dark
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    Kathleen Glasgow

    Kathleen Glasgow is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girl in Pieces, as well as How to Make Friends with the Dark and You'd Be Home Now. She lives and writes in Tucson, Arizona. To learn more about Kathleen and her writing, visit her website, kathleenglasgowbooks.com, or follow @kathglasgow on Twitter and @misskathleenglasgow on Instagram.

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    • 5/5
      Damn I found this book “unputdownable”...and so scary and heartbreaking.

      The story was just so sad but yet seemed so real… Like how quickly something could happen to any of us and what kind of situation will your children have to then face. Hopefully the majority of us are in a better situation to begin with overall but it really makes you stop and think. I found the majority of the characters likable, with the exception of a select few parents, and the behavior of the kids at school was pretty right on. Now the sister should’ve probably been a character that we didn’t care for but she was so cool that you can’t help but like her.

      I’d like to think happy endings for all.
    • 5/5
      One of the very few books that had me crying the whole, frigging, time. I loved it!
    • 3/5
      I received this eARC from Delacorte Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book in any way. All quotes are taken from the uncorrected proof and are subject to change.

      You have always been lonely and you have never admitted it.
      Obligatory Summary

      Tiger Tolliver's mother just died and her whole life has been turned upside down. Traded from foster home to foster home, from strangers to family and back again, she mourns her mother. There is no guide on how to cope with this kind of loss, and she's sinking under the sadness.

      My Thoughts

      I am honestly so conflicted about this book. I wanted to like it, I really did, and sometimes I did actually like it, but the writing and execution for me were the biggest issues. It was funny sometimes, but also just so strange. I can't really say what I didn't like about it, I just didn't like it.

      I had a very hard time connecting with Tiger, the main character. She was very abrasive and I felt strange because I had to remind myself that I should feel bad for her. I've never suffered this specific kind of loss, but I have overcome death-induced depression after the suicide of my friend in high school, so while I could connect with the sentiments on a base level, they didn't inspire any real emotion in me. I'm the kind of person who emotionally connects to literally everything in a book, especially of this genre, so that was a very strange thing for me.

      I found many of the other characters felt unrealistic, especially in their dialogue. Sometimes things were said that didn't feel like something any living, breathing human being would say, instead of a book character. Thaddeus came out of nowhere and became her friend in a very short period of time, which felt rushed and unrealistic to me, though I appreciated that he didn't just become a love interest as these characters tend to. The introduction of Lupe Hidalgo was probably the first thing in this that I genuinely didn't like, because she felt extremely cliche and unrealistic, especially with the other high schooler's reaction to her. She felt too blatantly rude, like a Disney Channel mean girl, and not an actual school bully.

      I liked Shayna but felt that some of her plot twists could have been done better. There was a lot of weird pacing in this, which I guess reflects real life, but it made for a whiplashy reading experience. There were several times when Tiger just didn't address certain things that seemed like pretty pressing issues, which honestly contributed to my general dislike of her.

      The various odd nicknames were jarring, as I've literally never met a single person in my entire life who honestly went by Cake or Crash or something like that. Maybe I've just lived in too many normal places, but that sounds like a cartoon character to me, not a real person.

      This could just be a problem with the ARC, but the technical things in the writing were really weird. Like, it felt like this wasn't edited at all. I had such a hard time figuring out who the speaker was sometimes, because dialogue would continue into the next paragraph, but the new speaker rule was followed, even though the speaker was often the same. Like, all the author had to do was remove that extra quotation mark at the end of the first paragraph. It's literally that simple.

      Overall, I thought it was fine, even really good at times, but because of the writing, I just really couldn't get into it. You might love it, it might even be your favorite book, but it just wasn't for me.

      "Sometimes you need to open yourself to the possibility of the miraculous, Tiger Tolliver. Sometimes you just do."