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2.5 STARS rounded down

If a book blurb is going to compare itself to a classic like Laurie Halse Anderson’s WINTERGIRLS “for a new generation”, it better come close to the blurb or readers like me will feel let down.

Lauren Seal says in the preface that she’s taken her experience with anorexia as a teenager to help form Evie and the plot. She takes so much liberty for the treatment program it’s laughable.

Adults and minors aren’t housed in the same ward, let alone as roommates by law in my state and I’d bet most every other state too due to liability issues for the minor. Only the wealthiest patients can afford four months in a treatment facility in the USA. Inpatient psych treatment is basically triage until the patient is no longer a threat to self or others. If anyone can get a hospital to pay for a week, that’s a long stay. When I got into the field in the early 1990s, psychologists complained how insurances were *only* paying for twenty-eight days. Had we known then what we now, we highly have been grateful.

I don’t think verse was the best method of telling the story LIGHT ENOUGH TO FLOAT, which reads like every other book involving a treatment center:
Patient is resistant
Something Very Bad Happens
Patient embraces recovery.

LIGHT ENOUGH TO FLOAR MIGHT APPEAL to MG readers, but not teens.

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