Titles I've written about:
Cracked (2012):
The two sets of adults in their lives are awful—so awful that 50 pages in, I was following Josh around the house, shaking the book at him and zombie moaning "I'm sooooooooooooooooo depresssssssssssed"—and Walton does a great job of showing that people can be absolutely hideous parents without ever laying a finger on their children.
Empty (2013):
Like Susanne Colasanti's Keep Holding On, it seems clear from the Author's Note that, in a way, Empty is meant as a 250-page-long It Gets Better message; unlike Keep Holding On, though, Empty doesn't come off as a classic issue novel. It's a book that deals with issues, but said issues don't overshadow Dell's voice or character.
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