Years ago, I didn't want to write the story of my scars, or the story of being a girl with scars, because it is hard enough being a girl in the world, but try being a girl with scars on your skin in the world. this quote exactly shows how much you hate and get scared from physical touch and putting barriers around you, but still wanting someone to be able to understand you even though you fear to be understood. after her and riley had sex in julie’s office even though she didn’t wanted to, riley says to her that he didn’t forced her to anything, and charlie’s thoughts were ‘it was partially my fault, because i didn’t wanted to do it but i let him do it.’ i want this book printed and handed to every teen girl because i know there are millions of them thinking the same thing and blaming themselves, and i know that they wouldn’t be blaming charlie for this, but they blame themselves, so this can be a supportive love letter to who those suffer from this but can’t call it ‘trauma’ or ‘rape’ because it doesn’t count as one in society. But: I remember the stars at night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth.

Dark, frank, and tender, Girl in Pieces keeps the reader electrified for its entire journey. You’re so A detective-type girl is trying to solve an unfinished murder mystery, and she faces many problems for it. Charlie, who’d made bad decisions, made mistakes, who’d had terrible things happen to her. But she kept on going, even when she almost gave up, fighting her way through this world.A girl's life is the worst life in the world. A girl's life is: you are born, you bleed, you burn.” in fact, some people noticed her, good and bad. the relationships that charlie had was shown so nakedly, every fight, every hug, every speech was so realistic that you can clearly see the complexity of human interactions. i really liked her friendship with blue, it was unstable just like their mentality, disliking each other at the start but finding comfort and healing in each other arms through the following months was presented so naturally. and the way they were both tired of trying but keep pushing the other was so heartbreakingly beautiful to read.

My crazy self decided that yes, it’s an AMAZING idea to read this and a little life at the same time! Who doesn’t want more trauma? You are not alone. Charlie Davis's story is the story of over two million young women in the United States. And those young women will grow up, like I did, bearing the truth of our past on our bodies.

Girl in Pieces by Glasgow Kathleen

I wasn't sure what rating I would give this book. Girl In Pieces is about Charlotte(Charlie) Davis who is a barely 18 year old homeless girl whose mother is terrible and whose friends are all drug addict criminals. She finds herself living in an underaged brothel and one night cuts herself so badly she ends up in the hospital. I connected with Charlie. I felt her desperation for money and a job and a place to live, but I couldn't really connect with her pain and self-harm.