Going into How to Make Friends with the Dark I knew I was dealing with heart hitting, emotional prose that will leave me feel low, but nothing prepared me for the amount of emotions I feltl.This book was heart wrenching in all it means!I picked this book during a readathon, which was a HUGE mistake. You see, because so many bad things happened to our main character Tiger, it was really hard for me to speed through the story.So I failed the readathon, but I got so much from this novel, that I’m n...

This one was difficult. It's sad, and real, and a bit tragic. I liked the unexpected events of the after effects and the unraveling of life in this novel. It's not one I'll be forgetting any time soon.

times i cried during this book: sixtimes i texted my mum and my dad to tell them i love them while reading parts of this book: countless

2005 emo me is sCREAMING at that titleI need this

Grief is extremely personal. No two people experience and process their grief in the same way. Kathleen Glasgow's novel How to Make Friends with the Dark beautifully explores the complexity, the isolation, the raw pain you feel when someone you love dies.What's it about?Tiger's mother may be overprotective, but it has always been Tiger and her mother against the world. On a day like any other, after harsh words you can't take back are exchanged, Tiger's mother unexpectedly dies. And now Tiger is...

This book tore at my emotions the whole time and broke my heart many times. I can't pick one that stands out more than the others.It reminded me of when I was grieving for my furbabies Tasha and Lilly, my bird Woody, Grandma, and Pop Pop. I kept thinking I was feeling this.. I experienced that! She gets it! Not to compare my experiences to anyone else's, just to let you in to my thought process. Some things in the end chapters had me almost outright bawling in the breakroom and smiling a little

this book is for the grievers this book is for the left behindthis book is for every broken heartsearching for a homeKathleen Glasgow This book broke my damn heart! That’s all! The end! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾 BLOG

Many thanks to Delacorte Books for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest reviewI got to meet Kathleen at the National Book Festival!!***********Oh my god. I don't think I have EVER read a book better than this one. It made me giggle. It made me cry. This is a book that everyone needs to read. And then read again. And again.This book but me with a tsunami of emotions. Stronger than anything a book has ever made me feel in a while. Grief is a very hard thing to put on to paper. I mean having...

This book is now a thing! It's about a girl named Tiger Tolliver who has to learn how to live with loss. It's about learning what family means. What it means to take care of someone and let yourself be cared for. Feel free to ask me questions about it and I'll do my best to answer.

Heartbreaking but beautiful. I felt like I went on a journey reading this book. It made me smile but more often it made me cry. It was such an honest depiction of grief and several individuals journey as they are forced to navigate it.

i cried. this was beautiful. one of the best books about grief i’ve ever read. highly recommend.

Darkest, full of grief and heartbreaking five stars! There are too many scary things outside world. You may loose your loved ones, you can hurt yourself in several ways. You can lose your possessions, your social circles, your carrier or your dignity, patience, reputation. But the scariest thing in life is loosing your inner light , turn it off forever and surrender to the dark! This book is really pessimistic, depressing, heart wrenching! Too many times I thought to stop reading but I pushed my...

Review to come but Trigger Warnings for self harm, alcohol abuse, grief, loss of a parent, loss of a sibling, loss of a loved on by suicide, loss of a loved one via health (cancer etc), loss of a loved one via accident (car), driving under the influence, discussion of extreme domestic violence (parent on child and boyfriend on girlfriend), emotional abuse, alcoholism, imprisonment of a parent, child neglect, eating disorder rep (is not eating to the point of self harm due to grief)... it’s a dif...

i really loved the first half of this book and its portrayal of grief and trauma. tiger's home and school life felt so authentic and made me want to sob 43241 times but the second half (view spoiler)[after she went to go live with sister (hide spoiler)] was,,,,,,,,boring IM SORRYi was more detached from the characters and found it tiring to keep reading (y'all the book is 400 pages and if i aint entertained for 400 pages, it isnt going to work well) everything felt very repetitive and the charac...

I received this eARC from Delacorte Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book in any way. All quotes are taken from the uncorrected proof and are subject to change.You have always been lonely and you have never admitted it. Obligatory Summary Tiger Tolliver's mother just died and her whole life has been turned upside down. Traded from foster home to foster home, from strangers to family and back again, she mourns her mother. There is no

Another powerful and masterpiece by Glasgow, How To Make Friends With The Dark is a very stunning book, the story will be pinned in my head for a while because it has such an interesting and curated writings!.We all have ups and downs and I would nothing recommend you to read more than this beautiful and powerful book, Kathleen once again teaches us how to save us in our worst moments, she really reminds us that after lots of hurricanes will come a rainbow that can stuck for a while.After surviv...

“Who would ever guess that it isn’t your bones or your blood or your heart that keeps everything humming along inside you, it’s your freaking mom, and when she’s dead, it all disappears.” Boy, I can't keep count of the number of times I forced these heavy lumps in my throat. Those thoughts about losing your mom, your life anchor at an early age of 16, and the harsh realities of the endless suffering of children without parents for awful reasons such as death, abuse, addiction, etc. make me

“you are carrying so many heavy feelings. there just isn’t enough room for them all.” going into this book, i had absolutely no idea what it was about. the only thing i knew was that it was going to be a sad contemporary, and that it was indeed. since i barely heard anyone talk about the novel either, i also pretty much had no expectations and that was ideal, to be quite honest. i feel like if how to make friends with the dark had been praised by everyone i watch on booktube and everyone whose

{4.5 ⭐️} this book broke me. i highly recommend this!!

utter pain and sadness. this is the only book that has made me cry whilst reading. all i want to do is hug my parents and never let go