![]() While I definitely think this one could be triggering, it's definitely not torture porn about how much abuse sucks meant to cause tears. ![]() And wow, Lloyd-Jones captured how it feels to come from a bad household really, really well the only other book I've read that captured this topic so well was Heather Demetrios' Bad Romance. The thesis of the importance of finding family beyond your blood, and not putting up with blood when they'll give you nothing - it's so important to me. Her arc primarily focuses around her history of abuse and her self-hatred: her feeling that everything is her fault, and that she deserves nothing. This book is weird, and whimsical, and so great.ĭee is. Which is one of the coolest concepts ever, first of all. It is this ultimatum that leads her to sell her soul to a demon. Our lead, Dee, is a biracial Latina abuse survivor trying to hang on to college, and a life away from home, when she finds out she's lost her scholarship. The Hearts We Sold is one of the best explorations of abuse and self-hate I've ever had the pleasure of reading. A sense that no matter how terrible things get, everything will eventually get better. ![]() There are books that make you cry of sadness, and then there are books that make you cry with a sense of beauty. My heart actually still exists but I'm going to sell it to a demon because I no longer truly have it. ![]() This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales. ![]()
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