Massive

This raw, edgy book will have you wanting more, and flipping pages.

This story tells the rather strange life of Carmen, who has to deal with her mother's obsession with weight and everything she eats. Told from a very truthful perspective, Carmen is thrown into the care of her mother, who seperates from her husband and takes Carman along with her, even though she doesn't want to go. Carmen is subjected into a new, cold, lonely world. Even before she didn't care about her weight, didn't care what her mother said, but now, being taunted next to the fattest kid in her new school, weight seems to become just as much an obsession as it is to her mother. As Carmen becomes sicker and sicker, so does her mother, and they both spiral into the unknown...

At first, this book didn't really spark my interest because it started off at a very random point. It lets you know a lot of things right at the beginning, like, for example Carmen's mother's obsessive compulsive attitude towards food. Right away, in the beginning you start to think that things aren't going to go very smoothly for the main character. Right away she's wisked off to a new life, in a new house and new surroundings, without her "father."

In Massive, written by Julia Bell, you don't get the feeling of warmth, or any sense of relationship, like, friendship. This book is very cold, which is why it is so good, because it bites you in the butt with reality.

I recommend this book to anyone looking for a story...

Thanks!

Chelisa