Cindy's Reviews > Watch Over Me

This is my second Nina LaCour book, and I’m finding that her writing has a quiet and sad charm to it that works whenever I pick it up at the right time in my life. Fortunately, this is one of those times. I read this during a depressive episode with a huge chunk of it during a day where I was detoxing, and the simple elegance to the writing just clicked for my brain. The book feels like a little relief with everything else going on in life. It’s interesting how understated her writing is - she gives just enough and doesn’t reveal everything on purpose. Although I would have liked to learn more about the side characters, I still enjoyed the sparse writing and think other YA authors can learn from these techniques, that sometimes less is more. Overall, a very gentle book about healing from grief and trauma that I quietly enjoyed.