From page one, Tiger Tolliver grabs your heart with her pain, her courage, her humor – and she doesn’t let go. 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.

But the scariest thing in life is loosing your inner light , turn it off forever and surrender to the dark! I was getting flashbacks to how I felt in high school, looking around me at all the girls that seemed so mature while I felt like a lump of misshapen dough. I realize every person experiences grief differently, but Tiger's felt more than a little over-the-top.

This could just be a problem with the ARC, but the technical things in the writing were really weird. make me want to kneel on the floor and sob with abandon which I actually did-the sobbing, not the kneeling. Maybe some day it could be a reality for someone you know, a friend, a family memeber or even yourself.

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. A lot of stuff happens and its important and I think delving into it more and exploring the consequences of people's choices would have turned this into a 5 star read for me. When it would have been easy for Tiger to push Cake away or for Cake to disappear when things get hard and Tiger's emotions are messy, their friendship weathers the storm. I had such a hard time figuring out who the speaker was sometimes, because dialogue would continue into the next paragraph, but the new speaker rule was followed, even though the speaker was often the same.

She feels like an island floating out to sea in darkness she alone can feel surrounded by smiling happy faces. The story talks about grief, friendships, family relationships, foster care and all kinds of domestic violence.

But thank goodness, the main character has so much humor, it has become an inherent part of her language. It's written mostly from the author's personal experience and I have so much respect and adoration for the author. so having watched that, i knew it was very much fucked up, and it is unfortunate that tiger has to go through that.Almost nothing happens for the first 150 - 200 pages and then EVERYTHING happens in the last 200 pages. Sixteen-year-old Tiger Tolliver’s struggles are relatively minor—she’s stuck in secondhand threads and lusts after her biology partner—until her overprotective but loving mother unexpectedly dies. A brilliant, honest, raw look at what it really means to lose someone essential and make grudging peace with what is gained in the exchange. In How to Make Friends with the Dark, Kathleen Glasgow's prose begs and pleads and grasps at the light, like a prayer. Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character.

How there are people who aren’t the best, and shouldn’t be looking after children, and the people who really care. honestly, i can’t think of any character i have so genuinely sympathized with so quickly, and i’ve got the author’s great writing to thank for that. She is not necessarily someone I would like in real life, she is a bit off putting at times, but in this story, I loved her.When she inadvertently saves the life of Prince Kai, she becomes embroiled in the Purging Trials, a competition to commemorate the sickness that killed most of the kingdom’s Ordinaries. Not only were we dealing with the tragic, unexpected death of a family member, we then had to deal with a homicide trial and far too much publicity. Cred că pur și simplu m-a prins într-o pasă în care nu eram dispusă deloc să mă implic într-o dramă.