As an aromantic and asexual person, I am all about friendship being just as valuable and important as romance-and I think this is particularly true for teenagers, for that time in your life when (as I am given to understand) you are often making your first forays into sex/romance and prone to stumbling. This game of “pass the parcel” brings these characters together in a way that should be sweet but isn’t, because of course, this is a Non Pratt novel.įriendship has always been an important motif in Pratt’s work, which is perhaps one of the reasons their novels resonate with me. She’s hyped to receive a package from Freya, except it’s more of a quest: within her package is another package, addressed to someone else Freya knew, and so on. Sophie is grieving the decay of her best friendship with Freya, who moved to Manchester in the middle of Year 11. Whereas Unboxed was about recovering a time capsule the main characters had intentionally buried, however, Every Little Piece of My Heart is about discovering secrets and relationships that were, until recently, buried. Both books involve a group of teens coming together as a result of the absence of someone common to all their lives. The result is invariably entertaining and poignant, and this latest book is no exception.Įvery Little Piece of My Heart shares superficial similarities with Unboxed, an earlier novella of Pratt’s. With each novel, Pratt continues to tinker and imagine and play with how to tell stories from the point of view of diverse teenage characters. (Meanwhile, my own review-writing skills have developed and changed over the years.) In Non Pratt’s case, Every Little Piece of My Heart showcases how her talents at characterization and particularly perspective have evolved over the years. One of my joys in writing reviews of each of an author’s novels, in the order they’ve been written, is getting to see that development over time. Every writer with each novel hones their craft.
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