Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlinMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I was provided an ARC of this book via Netfalley, all opinions are my own.
This follows Dylan after waking up in a strange place and not being able to remember the last few days. She has lost time before, but never days at a time. Dylan has always struggled with her mental health, but she thought she had it under control. She stopped drinking and the people she was with over the weekend assure her she wasn't drunk, so what happened that made her forget and why does she hear voices inside her head? Fortunately for Dylan she has the support of her mom and best friend to help her navigate things as they try to get a diagnosis from a neurologist and therapist. Eventually they pursue DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder, which Dylan has many of the markers for and it seems to fit all of the strange behaviors she has exhibited throughout her life. Dylan has to embark on a journey to not only uncover the trauma that caused her to dissociate but get to know each of her alters and learn how each of them functions within the larger system,
I enjoyed this. I know DID is still a questionable diagnosis in the mental health community and it is hard to get diagnosed with it. This has some tough moments as Dylan has to face her trauma and there are some content warnings that the reader should be aware of before undertaking this read (attempted suicide, sexual abuse of a child, mental illness). Learning about her different alters and how all of them work together was insightful.
I did think that it came together in a nice neat package, but that comes with being YA I find. Dylan suffered a terrible trauma as a child, but her diagnosis came fairly easily and everyone around her accepted it. Her relationship with Connor fell into place pretty easily as well, and he is a little too perfect sometimes.
Overall, this was an enjoyable and quick read. I read this in a few hours and found it hard to put down.
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