booksliveforever

Dell is a young teenage girl that has been through hell. Her parents have divorced and everything around her has just went downhill. She has lost her place on the softball team, there are problems at home and now she has a eating disorder. At school, she was made fun of due to her weight, and her clothes. Her best friend has joined the others at school, not making fun of her but not sticking up for her either. The boy she has crushed on for forever betrays her in the Worst way and she question how she let it happen. Her father is only concerned with his new life and new soon to be wife, but he does have time to put her down like everyone else. Her spiral down picks up speed.I went into this with an idea of what this was about, but it was so much more. I have been trying to write this review for a few days, I wasn’t really sure that I would. But I decided that I needed to.This is a dark, gut wrenching look into the life of a bullied teen girl. It is filled with raw emotions and has a powerful message. Following Dell through the over eating to compensate for the pain and self loathing, and the questioning of why she was raped was heart breaking. The voice she was given by Walton was strong and compelling, making you feel everything she was feeling, the roller coaster that was her life. Reading this was hard, and it does provoke a lot of emotions.Empty has some very serious subject matter, but it done in way that it needed to done. No holding back. This is a must read by all.