5 Words: Beauty, power, property, friendship, freedom. 
 YA Shot read-a-long March 2016 
 I really enjoyed this book, if that's even the right word, but by the end I felt kind of deflated. I felt that, just like the characters, all hope was gone, lost. 
 This is a good book, but it's also utterly horrible. 
 It takes the very worst aspects of human nature and exaggerates them and makes everything HORRIBLE, but you can't stop reading because it's so well written and right until the end you have this tiny shred of hope that maybe this is the beginning of change and things will get better but then your hopes are dashed and you just want to cry. 
 I felt awful reading this. I felt sick. It made me think about things I didn't want to think about. It made me think the very worst of myself and I hated it. 
 Back in high school, I battled with an eating disorder. I have never understood that books could be triggers until now, I haven't ever read anything that's go to me so much. Because what these girls were feeling? This is what I felt. Every day I'd mentally rip myself to shreds, just as these girls rip into each other. But I think it's good that I read this. As much as it hurt, as hard as it was, I know I am stronger for it. It reinforced that I can do this, that I can continue fighting.