This month I read a book called “Can’t Look Away” by Donna Cooner. It is about a girl who loves to post videos of herself on youtube until one day she was at the mall with her sisters making a shopping haul video when her sister got hit by a drunk driver. everything changed when this happen. Know one in her family was happy, she stopped youtubing and she moved to Texas, leaving everyone and her best friend behind. One the day of her sister's death she made a video and everyday since then she has had billions of new subscribers and billions of views. Her life changes so quickly and she doesn’t know how to feel but if you read more then you’ll know about her hard journey.
The author wrote this coming from the point of view of Torrey and a narrator sort of view. I think she wrote like this because she wanted to show what Torrey was thinking in the situation she also wrote like a narrator at times to give detail and little things about her story. I also noticed that Torrey showed a lot of her observations of people in the story, and I think this is because she wanted to give a good image of what the people looked like and how they acted.
One thing that surprised me was that some of this story took place in Boulder, Colorado and also just everything that Torrey had to go through because she struggled through a lot but in the end she was okay just missing a few pieces. One thing that I liked about the book was the story behind it because I love watching youtube and everything that happened was a really good lesson to learn from. The author also added quotes at the beginning of every chapter that I really liked. One thing that I didn’t like was all the sad parts and all the things that her family went through.
This book taught me that know matter what you should always keep your head up even if it’s hard because in the end everything will be okay and you’ll look back and think “wow I actually made it” This book meant to me that in life things happen but you just need to keep going on, even though it may be hard. I think that the theme of this story is like I said before life gets hard at times but you just need to keep your head up.
During this book I felt happy, sad, and sometimes angry because there were many good and funny things that happened. I was sad when her family had lost someone and how they handled it, and I was angry with some of the decisions that she made at times. This is not also a movie but if it were I would definitely go and watch it. This was a really great book and I would recommend it to all of my friends and family. This book really taught me a lot and it was one of my favorite books I’ve read.
