it was fine. i think emmaline clein has a great voice and does some excellent research and analysis which is where i wish the book stayed. her prose are very nice, but i personally didn't enjoy the mix between a meaty well researched essay and then her more personal prose. i think in some essays the prose elevated her writing but i really wanted it to be more contained. i think i understand why she included them to get away from an authoratative and condescending academic voice that has been dominating the literature on EDs, and write it for the girls. 

another problem i had with it was some of the rehashing of online twitter and tiktok discourse (the tumblr content felt a little more timeless since people already think tumblr is an ancient relic) which i think is really going to date this book, and i think kind of ruined the throughline of the essays. it personally just was not gelling for me, but i know this book is going to be really important and healing for others.