Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you.
Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. 

The first thing that gripped me about this book is the writing style. Such a surprise for me to know that this is Miss Glasglow's debut novel. Her ability to create the whole atmosphere of the entire book. Her words were thick with emotion, beautifully written, it felt as if i was reading poets. The way she describe the main character's struggle with her self control, an extreme mistrust towards other. Now i usually get easily annoyed with characters who pity themselves but in this case, in Charlie's case was different. The longer i got into her story, the more i bound to feel every pain she felt. I was naturally pushed to understand her pain, to understand choices she made.

Overall this book is about facing whatever the universe had dumped you. Her past traumatic experience had brought her into this asylum where she met new friends, another broken wings. And then she was told that her mother wants for them to lived together again. She was thrilled by pieces of fragments that spinning behind her head, about how her mother treated her in the past. But then her mother ditched her. She was left homeless.

Living in a new city, new jobs, new people who seemed to have big potential to broke whatever left from her. Dealing with her sense of being unloved and un-love-able because of her scars, she was pretty much lost. And whether or not she wanted to, if she wanted to survive, she had to find a way out.

And even though this book briefly seemed to be a universe where people become so harsh on themselves, yet i thought if you looked from other perspective you'll see that it is about peoples who tried to save themselves. To stay alive. Charlotte's story stays in my heart for a while. She was terribly hurt. Her soul were scattered into pieces and she was the one who crawl and bleed and suffocate just to recollect those pieces. 'You are your own savior'. She have nobody in her side. She was homeless, abandoned in a strange city, and yet in the end of the day she could be able to put herself together to face whatever the universe slam into her face. And i think that's a struggle that we all had to encounter in certain parts of our live. As a human, we are meant to be alone. Some people are lucky enough to have some friends and family as a support systems, but those support doesn't last forever. In the end of the night we are still facing our own war alone.

I think we all hurt ourselves in our very own way. There are numerous way to make us suffocate. You don't need a bottle of insecticide to poison yourself,  letting all the negativity around you flow into your head by being around toxic friends did the same thing. You don't need to drown yourself inside water to choke, overworking yourself and not letting you get enough amount of rest did the same sensation. We are hurting ourselves by giving to much pressure, by skipping dinner to do the school's assignment. And i think it would be much better if we stop those kind of habit. We should be able to embrace ourselves, we know what our body and mind needs and we have to fulfill it, we know our own limit so we shouldn't push ourselves too hard across the line. As there are a lots of people around who share the same struggle, as there are so many souls who bleeds to talk, who crawl to move, and it is very important for us to be aware of their struggle. With awareness we are able to actually lend our hand for them, we can embrace ourselves in order to make the whole world a little bit bearable for all of us. And i think this book will successfully spread the awareness.

overall, i love the book. and i recommend to all the people who are seeking for revelation or such, to read this book.

i think that's enough for this book's review. thank you for reading, have a nice day love! XOXO