This book tells the story of Riley, a twelve-year-old girl with anorexia and an exercise-addiction, through her journal entries as she stays at an ED treatment center. It shows how this sickness effects even very young girls, and is, in many ways, an accurate depiction of eating disorders and their treatment.

The book takes on a very realist view, where not everything always turns out right, and not everybody can be saved. In that way, it is very representative of my life personally, and I felt very grateful reading it for such a real depiction. The family situation is described very nicely (i.e. infuriating and painful) and the character development makes sense.

Some more detail for her co-patients may have been good, though EDs are very self-centred disorders, so it makes sense Riley doesn't focus on them as much. The insight into her therapy sessions were nice.

Because of the journal format and probably because of other reasons, the book did not focus as much on food, eating, and numbers as might be expected, but it was still able to convey Riley's inner conflicts, which may well be the most important part of an ED.

Overall, a very good, though not world-changing book. It gives insight into the ED world from a very young, modern perspective, which isn't too common in the genre. This also means that it, at times, is a bit simplistic, but that makes sense, seeing as Riley is literally twelve. I did cry a few times reading it, haha.