If you're looking for a nice, funny book that takes your mind off your problems, this book isn't for you. It's about a girl, Missy, who is a cutter. She's not goth or emo, she just deals with her problems like that. One day death knocks on her door, gives her a package,and tells her she might cut too deep and die someday. So she tries to stop. But when she gets humiliated in front of everyone in her school by her ex, she goes home and cuts again, accidently going too deep, just like death warned her might happen. While she's dying, Death returns and gives her two options: either she could die, or she could open the package he gave her. She opens it to find a beautiful sword and becomes one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War. Throughout the book, she struggles with her cutting habit. The author doesn't sugarcoat anything, and tells the readers about cutting, not just that it's bad, but why people do it. This is her second book in her series, the first of which is Hunger, which deals with eating disorders. I think that not only does the author tell us about problems that teenagers face through this series, but she tells it in a creative way. She made up a whole world for the main characters of both books to grow and face their problems head on. Although it is a great book, not many people want to face problems in the world, so it doesn't get as many reads. But I'd reccomend it to people going through problems like cutting, so that they can see that they can stop cutting.
