Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

WARNING!!!!! I got this trilogy for my 12 y/o daughter and read most of it with her. In the second, and especially the third book, I found it bizarre, irresponsible and reprehensible how the author focused on the main characters cutting themselves. They use cutting their forearms, hands, etc with knife as a way to "feel", "understand", and "gain clarity and insight" into difficult situations. I kept waiting for the book to do a 180 on this idea as horrific and ineffective, but all it really did was have the character, in passing, say she quit doing it because boyfriend asked her to stop. Utterly reckless and dangerous to paint cutting as a useful and effective way to blow off stress and gain clarity and insight into a situation - especially for a series geared to young girls. What the heck was the author thinking?!