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Amy Ellis

Dec 2013 · Amy Ellis

About this ebook

 Jenni is an average teenage girl about to graduate from high school who keeps a blog about her struggles to get a boyfriend and arguments with her best friend, Carly. But Jenni's blog is a bit different. She's a pro-ana/pro-mia blogger documenting her struggles with her eating disorder, keeping track of her weight, calorie intake and what her parents made her eat. When her best friend Carly discovers her blog, things start to blow up, only getting worse as Jenni meets Dani, who also suffers from an eating disorder. Jenni's story is tragic and sarcastic rolled into blog format and told through her posts and text messages.

Ratings and reviews

This was the most flat and shallow thing I've ever read. The main character had the least amount of personality. She was just a walking case of anorexia, and while that sort of is what happens to you after years of having the disorder, you still have bits of yourself left for it to filter through, I mean CHRIST she had no feelings outside of food. She didn't even feel distressed about her feelings about food. By not showing any interest in her own novel, Amy glamorizes eating disorders and minimizes them to wanting to lose weight and becoming a weightloss robot, ignoring all the pain and triumph and fear and literally any other emotion one would experience with an eating disorder.

Wished more happen in the book but it was still a good book all together

Perfect for everyone who is into this topic.

About the author

 Amy Ellis is a Longwood University graduate with a BA in English/Creative Writing and a minor in Children’s Literature. She currently resides in Richmond, Virginia.