Wintergirls

I'll try to write a summary after I write my review:

Wow..I love this book. Its..haunting and chilling and amazing. Parts of it gaze me goose bumps, just the word “Wintergirls” is freaky. The writing is dazzling, especially the “literary devices”. Cassie, Lia's old friend, reminded me so much of one of my friends it was scary. Not the skinny part, but the personality part. I love the little crossed out parts, they made me laugh.


SUMMARY

Lia is a girl headed straight toward Wintergirl-life. She eats barely anything, and excerises for hours at night to get rid of her food. She's already been admitted to a center, twice and is now living with her father, her step-mom(Jennifer), and her step-sister(Emma). In order to fool Jennifer when she steps on the scale, she sews quarters into the pockets of her robe.
But starving herself isn't her only problem, to “let the pain go” Lia makes little cuts on her hips and legs.
Then her old best friend, Cassie, dies alone in a motel room.
And it only gets worse when Lia discovers that Cassie called her thirty-three times.
Then, she starts seeing and hearing Cassie's ghost. Talking to her. Telling her how she can't wait for Lia to become one of her, a Wintergirl. And doing crossword puzzles in her shrink's office.
To add to that, her mother Dr.Marrigan is trying to get Lia admitted again, which sparks a few quarrels with Lia and her father.
Adding even more to that, Lia finds out that Cassie's last message to her was “You won”, referring to the bet that Lia would be skinnier than Cassie.
But back to the fighting thing.
After Lia and her dad have this one fight, Lia decides to cut herself. Really cut herself. She's half-dead when her third-grade sister finds her. Needless to say, Lia is sent to live with her mom and is going to be reviewed for psycho-ness(after she told her therapist about seeing Cassie and everything else).
However, Lia doesn't want this. So she spends 10 days in a motel room, once again becoming very,very, very close to death and Forever Wintergirl Land. What saves her, is talking to Cassie and seeing what her life could be like, if she gets better.
It ends with Lia deciding she wants to get better and knowing how long it would take her.