Book Review: ‘Sad Girls’, A Best-Selling Teen Literature By Poet Lang Leav

“Your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to—it’s the first one who breaks it,” Lang Leav’s short but meaningful verses packed an emotional trauma that allows the reader to wallow in grief and despair. The line was extracted from Sad Girls, her very first debut novel.

If you ever heard of this internationally best-selling author’s name, you must have known that she writes words that are confessional and relatable. Most of them are related to heartbreak and grief. So powerful that it could pierce right through the hearts of many especially young readers.

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On the 30th of May 2014, Lang Leav released a novel titled ‘Sad Girls‘ where it reached #1 on the Straits Times Bestseller chart under the fiction category. This novel also drew mixed reviews and criticisms. On Goodreads, the book has an average rating of 3.37 out of 5 from 8,350 ratings.

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One user from Goodreads rated 5 out of 5 with a comment, “Lang Leav shows us how love can be both beautiful and heartbreaking, and most importantly, she shows us how one decision can change our entire life forever, and quite possibly change the lives of those around us. This book pulled me in from beginning to end. This was definitely deeper than I ever could have imagined. I can’t praise this book enough -highly recommend!”

What Is It About

Sad Girls tells a story about Audrey who got into trouble when she told a lie about her classmate, Ana. As a result of the slander, Ana took her own life. Audrey’s world begins to spin out of control and she was filled with guilt when she meets the mysterious Rad, a boy who she thought could undo all the mess. As the story unfolds, Audrey found herself closer to the edge.

Sources: Goodreads, simonandschuster

Adib Mohd

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