cracked up to be courtney summers summary

Lockhart and YOU’LL MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE by Rachel Lynn Solomon.Įxtreme profanity used pretty frequently. It’s a great book for fans of angsty stories like WE WERE LIARS by E.

Her behavior convinced me that something terrible had happened, and I knew that either she would have to face it or be destroyed by it.ĬRACKED UP TO BE is, at times, a difficult/dark read, but I spent every page rooting for Parker, hoping for her to find a breakthrough and be able to start healing. It remains a mystery through most of the book, but it drove me forward. I saw other readers comment that they were driven to know what had happened to Parker. And in a way I thought it showed other sides of Parker than she wanted to show us in her version of her story. But they care about Parker, and in their sometimes weird, sometimes broken, sometimes imperfect ways, they continue to reach out to her and try to help her in her recovery. Her friends and teachers aren’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination. I’m often really moved by the community element in the stories I read, and the community around Parker in CRACKED UP TO BE definitely moved me. There’s a constant tug of war in her over punishing herself for her past mistakes and yet still wanting to be loved despite them, even though she doesn’t feel like she deserves it. Parker’s clearly a mess and in the midst of a pretty sharp downward spiral. And there’s one of her books where I really struggled with liking the main character, but it’s definitely not this one.

I totally see why people classify them that way.

It’s interesting to me that there’s so much emphasis on the characters as unlikeable. I’m a fan of Courtney Summers’ writing and the often heartbreaking stories she boldly tells of girls who are angry and sad and recovering from trauma.

Cracked up to be courtney summers summary