![]() ![]() It told me to be more appreciative and thankful for what I have, and sorry for even the little name-calling that I did back in high school. So instead of making me sad, Empty served as an eye-opener. ![]() My parents didn't get a divorce, I didn't realize my dad hadn't really loved me, my mom has never been too wrecked to be a mother, my best friend is not becoming a stranger, and I am not filling any internal void with food. The reason why it didn't affect me as much as I wanted it to was because, thankfully, my life's been very far from that. The prose was good, oozing with darkness and depression, befitting of Dell's emotional and disturbing life. ![]() Unfortunately, it failed to make that connection with me.But that's not to say Empty was a failure. It aims - at least I think it does - to grab the reader's heart and plug in a wire to connect with it, to unmask Dell's disappointments hidden behind self-deprecation and nonchalance. (This review was originally posted at My Library in the Making.)Let me tell you one thing about this book: it is not about hope or enlightening. ![]()
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