The Half Life of Molly Pierce
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Average rating3.7
Molly, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, has played host to Mabel, a completely distinct personality, for most her life. When Molly faces a crisis Mabel doesn't know she can handle, Mabel lets Molly in on her secrets. Molly feels like she's missed bits and pieces of her life. Now, she's figuring out why. Now, she's remembering her own secrets. And in doing so, Molly uncovers the separate life she seems to have led ... and the love that she can't let go.
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I wish I wasn't disappointed with this, only because I love Leno as an author and Horrid was such an interesting book that dove into complex mental disorders like pica. This one just didn't feel as real and raw...I struggled with the actual content of the story in getting me to feel engrossed. Still love Leno, of course, this particular book of hers just didn't do it for me.
I didn't reread the synopsis before I picked up this book.
https://twitter.com/mandikaye/status/464777799677779969
So yeah. I had no idea what was going on. But bonus - that helped me relate to the MC because she had no idea what has happening either!
I did, however, figure it out before she did.
Molly Pierce loses time. She'll suddenly find herself in a different place hours later than it should be. She thinks she's going crazy.
One day, she “wakes up” to find herself driving. A boy on a motorcycle appears to be trying to catch up to her, and in his hurry to rush through an intersection his tire is clipped by a passing truck.
This boy that Molly has never seen, who is lying in a puddle of his own blood as his life slips away, seems to know who she is.
And it is this event that sets in motion a course of events that will change Molly's life.
And I am glad I got to take that journey with her. I don't necessarily agree with everything that happened in the book (I loved Mabel and Sayer together), but I understand why it had to go the way that it did.
Hard to read endings are sometimes the best ones, for reasons.
