It' s a quick visit into the life of a person who was able to make it out of the abyss. However it definitely skims the surface well enough to show how quickly the onset can be. It doesn' t go quite as deep into the consequences of anorexia as some other books. It was pretty amazing to me how well this story was told in such a short amount of pages. It was hard to look away as he lost himself to this aggressive disease, and his life spiraled out of his control. His story turns ugly quickly as his own voice is drowned out by the one in his head. Mike feels like his life is falling apart and, when he meets the wrong girl, his image problems turn into something much more. We all know many teens deal with self image problems.

I know it might seem off at first, but I truly believe that Metzger' s choice in narrator was spot on. Mike' s story moves lightning fast, and I can' t deny that I was hooked. The reader sees how it this disease becomes an all consuming entity, taking over from the inside out. Even stranger, Lois Metzger chose to have anorexia as the narrator. Books that deal with anorexia are almost always about females, but this one follows a male character.

A Trick of the Light I' ll admit that what first drew me to A Trick of the Light was that it dealt with something I haven' t seen before.

A trick of the light by lois metzger