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by Patricia McCormick

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Author: Patricia McCormick
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-02-01
ISBN: 0439324599
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Push

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Book Review: !!! Whatever !!!
Summary: 2 Stars

Let me give it to you straight. "Cut" by Patricia McCormick is NOT one of those books you are going to read over and over again. It is NOT one of those books that is going to keep you up at night. It is NOT one of those books that will send a self-injurer (SI) into a relapse [at least, it didn't send ME into one]. Though the book claims to be basically a melodrama where the main character, Callie, needs immediate help and to battle a big, bad monster, i.e. self-mutilation, this is not so in my eyes. Reading the book made me think that McCormick just wanted an excuse to write about some kid in a mental hospitol. This kid could be an anorexic, or a druggie, it didn't really matter. Maybe McCormick knows someone who cuts or possibly is a cutter herself: I wouldn't know, I haven't met the woman.

But what I DO know is that this was just like every other book about SI, such as "Saint Jude" and "The Luckiest Girl In The World", to name a few. These authors seem to be copying each other, big time. Not the words, but the major ideas. The number of SI in the United States is rapidly increasing. We realistically do not have the time or the facilities to take on a few million of them. What we need a book about is a kid coping with self-mutilation without a special treatment center or group home. I honestly think that McCormick must have thought, 'hmmmmmm, wouldn't it be fun if I made a girl go on a little field trip to a loony bin, and then let her struggle there?'

I am just wondering where these authors get their ideas!!! Half of these stories are really a load of bull. However, I think that Patricia McCormick may, in fact, have a knack for writing, that is just still a little underdeveloped. I can't be TOO hard on her: afterall, it WAS her first novel.

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