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The Darkness Inside Us

February 28, 2016 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My Heart and Other Black Holes is the debut novel from Jasmine Warga from last year. It is a YA novel that deals with two depressed protagonists in some of the truest descriptions of being a teenager with depression that I have ever read. This is a good book, but probably not for everyone. I was alerted to this book’s existence by the five star review from Annie for Cannonball Read 7. While she and I agree on some points, I only rated this book […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: depressions, faintingviolet, Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes, suicide, YA

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: depressions, faintingviolet, Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes, suicide, YA ·
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    on “To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)
    I suspect I got more enjoyment reading your review than you did of the actual book. "Jail, jail for author...
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    on “To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)
    This sounds perfectly awful, but I do love this review.
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    on I don’t do torture
    I wish I had read this review before I bought this Audible book. I am just at the halfway point...
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    on “To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)
    Thank you.
  • Maximoff
    on “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”- Oscar Wilde
    May I join you at that dinner party? This book is well worth reading.
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