Insatiable, Eve Eliot

Stories such as these are stories we wish we wouldn’t have to tell our kids. That said, they are stories that need to be told. And judging from the reactions of our young book reviewers, they are books that touch their realities in sometimes profound ways. Witness the quote from the summary …

It made me personally pause and be like…wow.

The reviewer Kate, professes surprise at her own reaction. In so many ways, this is what we want as a reader … a “like wow” moment.

Insatiable, Book Review by Kim A
Grade Eight English
Bigelow Middle School, MA

“Meet four unforgettable girls who will forever change the way you think about food-and yourself.” – Eve Eliot

Eve Eliot wrote an amazing book called, Insatiable; a compelling story of four teens, food and its, that really inspired me about what goes through many young teenage girls’ minds about food and how you need to look to be satisfied with yourself. A reader will really feel these girls pain, their courage, and their fears in life.

Insatiable, Contemporary Teen Issues at the Fore

Jessica is a very skinny girl but yet pretty. Jess goes through hard times with her mother and is getting over the fact that her dad had just passed away from AIDS a couple of years ago and on her spare time is mothering her 6 year old brother named Matt.

Phoebe is a much larger girl in size than Jessica. Phoebe is rather chunky and is having a hard time talking and being around her father. He makes fun of her physical appearance and thinks that she is fat because she over eats junk food and is much larger than the models he is use to seeing everyday. Phoebe suffers with pain every night hoping she can become thin like every other girl in her school including her best friend Jessica who she is dying to be like and therefore over eats.

Samantha or as they call her “the perfect one,” resists eating.

And Hannah, the bright one of the pack, is feeling grief over her mothers’ death and throws up enormous amounts of food she eats when she’s alone thinking about her mother.

In a point in time a therapist named Gale Holland steps in to support these girls and anyone else that needs to talk about what their really feeling inside, especially the ones that didn’t have the support at home. It really does show you the great help that is out there if you have a problem and feel you would like to share it with others that have the same issues or relevant to your situation or even if you don’t want to talk about your problems its still a good way to know that your not the only one who is suffering.

Eve Eliot’s, Insatiable, The Verdict

In this book it won’t just show you what each of these girls are feeling and how they deal with their pain but has a good sense of style. It really creates a good image in your mind and really gets you thinking and feeling for the characters. It made me personally pause and be like…wow. That’s shocking but not surprising.

It gave me that sense of feeling that I was interested on what was going to happen next and not bore you to death. I recommend this book to anyone that just wants to learn more about life and realize what can happen to you if you don’t take care of your body.

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