Writing style
Conversational · Direct
Apple BooksThe Way I Used To Be
Literary fiction
- Print length
- 384 pagesRock the Boat, 2017
Description
Eden begins high school known as the girl who always does everything right. After her brother’s best friend rapes her, her understanding of her life collapses, yet she cannot bring herself to report the assault. She buries both the trauma and the identity she once had, while relationships and familiar certainties become painful. Told across all four years of high school, the novel follows Eden through adolescence as the effects of what happened continue to shape her sense of self. Love, heartbreak, and broken friendships accompany her struggle, as does an emerging resilience that develops over the course of those years.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Measured
Tone
Dark · Hopeful · Intimate · Melancholic
Structure
Episodic · Linear
Focus
Character · Relationships · Voice
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Series
The Way I Used to Be
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Rock the Boat
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780861546732
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