Cut Book Review

Cut by Patricia McCormick is an amazing book, focusing on real-life situations. The book is about Carrie, a young girl who is at the Sea Pines Medical Centre, being treated for her depression and self-harm issues. At the centre, Carrie makes friends with the other patients there. The story is told in Carrie's point-of-view, and the reader is the therapist that she meets up with once-a-week. Carrie is shying away from opening up, and she finds her sole comfort with Ruby, a worker at the centre. Throughout the story, Carrie realizes just how much her life could benefit from this treatment, and gradually starts warming up to the workers, and sets about setting her life right again.

This book was a great book, that focused on what many people today suffer. The author really somehow expressed what those patients were feeling throughout the book. She made the reader feel immersed into the book. In the afterword, she mentioned that she had actually been to a similar centre, and met the girls there. She talks about how all those girls, were practically broadcasting their problems to family and friends, but no one noticed. Those patients wanted help, yet was too scared to get it. This book is really just an amazing work.

As I flipped through the pages, I thought about the book of Chicken Soup Series. Basically, both books/series are about real teens and kids, who wanted to tell their story and make people more aware. Both books/series talk about all the problems that the current youth suffer through, whether it be mentally, physically, or both. They both show how young people everywhere are somewhat getting hurt everyday, yet everyone else are completely blind sided, even if that someone is also a teen themselves. Overall, this book is amazing, and really goes in depth of what really goes on in the world sometimes. You should pick it up, and I would definitely recommend checking out Patricia's other books too!