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A girl tumbles into a downward spiral when a romantic encounter turns violent in this heartwrenching novel from the author of Cracked.
Dell is used to disappointment. Ever since her dad left, it’s been one letdown after another. But no one—not even her best friend—understands all the pain she’s going through. So Dell hides behind self-deprecating jokes and forced smiles.
Then the one person she trusts betrays her. Dell is beyond devastated. Without anyone to turn to for comfort, her depression and self-loathing spin out of control. But just how far will she go to make all of heartbreak and the name-calling stop?
- Sales Rank: #2136786 in Books
- Published on: 2013-01-01
- Released on: 2013-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .75 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up-Seventeen-year-old Dell is overweight, and she eats to deal with a series of letdowns, beginning when her father left the family. No one understands the pain she harbors, not even her best friend. She hides behind her weight and self-deprecating jokes. Her classmates even get her to participate in sumo poses and to moo for them on demand. The bullying turns vicious at a party; she drinks too much and is raped by one of the bullies, on whom she happens to have had a crush. She has no one to turn to, and rumors start that she attacked him. Dell's life is starting to get even more hellish and she is running on empty. Dell is a well-drawn character, and her loneliness and hurt are palpable. Teens will be sucked into her downward spiral and will start to wonder if her situation is ever going to get better. Empty will hit home hard with teens who have been or are being tormented and should shed some light on how painful and destructive bullying is to its victims.-Shannon Seglin, formerly at Patrick Henry Library, Vienna, VAα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
Dell’s weight has ballooned since her father abandoned the family. Now, as she tops the scales at 286 pounds, food has become her antidote to the emptiness that sucks at her. To add to Dell’s grief, her devastated mother is addicted to pills, and Dell’s longtime best friend, Cara, longs for acceptance into the thin, beautiful, popular crowd, who target Dell with increasingly vicious abuse. Feeling invisible and alone, Dell makes a choice that will end the abuse forever. Like Walton’s debut novel, Cracked (2012), this novel wades fearlessly into the desperate inner lives of abused teens. Although the alienation experienced by overweight teenagers has been the topic of many young adult novels—K. L. Going’s Fat Kid Rules the World (2003), Catherine Ryan Hyde’s Diary of a Witness (2009), and Erin Jade Lange’s Butter (2012), among many others—Walker zeros in on every fluctuation of Dell’s emotional ride. Readers will feel Dell’s pain acutely in this emotionally wrenching novel, which deals with serious issues such as rape, drug use, and suicide. Grades 9-12. --Diane Colson
Review
"Bullying has become a hot topic in YA lit, and Walton offers a sensitive portrayal. Recommend to parents as well as their teens for facilitating self-examination and open lines of communication." (― Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books)
"Empty will hit home hard with teens who have been or are being tormented and should shed some light on how painful and destructive bullying is to its victims." (SLJ)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Well Done, But Left Me Feeling Ugly Inside...
By YA Litwit
This review has given me a lot of trouble. I've had a tremendous amount of difficulty putting my feelings about this book on paper because the feelings are so complicated. I really hated this book in so many ways. It left me feeling ugly inside, and I think I sat in my bed for about 20 minutes, hand over my mouth, in shock at how it all ended. This book does not contain an ounce of good feeling in it. Everything about it made me feel uncomfortable and really, really sad. The thing about that is that that was exactly how I was supposed to feel. This book is raw, and graphic. It gets right down to the nitty gritty of the effect bullying can have on a young person. Some people come out on the other side of it, others don't, but nobody comes away unscathed. The title is absolutely fitting, because it left me feeling just that, empty...
Dell's story is not unique. Young people face the kinds of abuse Dell faced in Empty every day, most of the time, silently, or worse, like Dell, with a mask of humor to hide their hurt. Nothing about Dell's, life was easy. Yes, much of it was of her own doing, but too much of it wasn't, and it was heartbreaking. I felt sick to my stomach much of the time I was reading this book because Dell didn't just FEEL like she had nobody looking out for her; She really didn't. She was alone in the world, and dealing with more hurt and ridicule than any one person should ever have to. Dell never even got her "moment" to show everyone her value as a human being. Even that was robbed from her. This book was so truthful and eye-opening, and REAL. I can't even. Sometimes there aren't happy endings. Sometimes people don't ever find joy in their lives. It is sad, but so heartbreakingly true. All this being said, I absolutely hated this book. Yes, it needed to be written, and yes, I think K.M. Walton did an absolutely stellar job writing it, but I can't get past how it made me feel. It cut me deeply, and I can't forgive it for that. If you like gripping, gritty, heart-wrenching reads (and I often do- Ellen Hopkins is a personal favorite), then you will probably want to read this, but I can't say that you will enjoy it. If I could go back in time, would I spend the time reading it again? Absolutely. But I still wouldn't like it.
My Rating: 4 stars
Grade Level Recommendation This book is for high school age readers and up. It is graphic in many ways. There is a lot of language, sex, sexual assault, drinking, drug use, and other mature subjects. That said, I think this should be REQUIRED reading for HS students, just not before.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Loved it!
By madreader
Just had to tell the author what i thought after i read this one, thought i'd share the email with you...
Hey K.M,
I've been meaning to email you since the weekend when I read Empty pretty much straight through!!!
Well I had to put it down just before the end because I was staying at a friend's place in QLD and was so engrossed that I was being quite unsociable! Then finished it the next arvo as soon as I got on the plane.
I really enjoyed it, I expected it to be good and insightful into the lives and struggles of teenagers because Cracked delivered that beforehand, but I was still pleasantly surprised by the depth of Dell's journey. I knew I'd want to read it but I didn't expect to be quite so involved and completely hooked. I was throughout.
During it I made my second mistake. I assumed the ending would be a feel good. I arrogantly decided that if it was aimed at a young adult audience it would do the usual and lead them by the hand to a happy place and leave them entertained but not necessarily challenged. All wrapped up neat as a bow. Silly me. I was watching the stack of pages I hadn't read get thinner and thinner and wondering how you were going to turn this all around in such a short space and then bam, it ended and I was hanging. Doh! I was so surprised, I was like What? Where's the rest? Then I started thinking about it and couldn't stop, imagining what could happen from there and what I wanted to happen, thought should happen if the world was fair and right. Wondered why it was so important to me and how it applied to those in my life.
Several days later I find myself still thinking about Dell and I just LOVE your ending!! I am so impressed (not that I should have been surprised) that you give the readers the credit for intelligence enough to draw their own conclusions and think with their own minds. It's brilliant! Not only do you NOT spoon feed them, you force them to consider themselves in the story and where and how they could have made a difference. You are not lecturing them or sugar coating, but so successfully making them responsible. For themselves and the lives around them. Genius.
I wanted to thank you for that. As anyone who's ever gotten lost in a book would say, it's a gift to become involved, and share in a story with not only the characters but also the author and you gave us that.
I certainly recommend this to everyone and I think this should be compulsory reading on every school curriculum.
I can't wait for the next one!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I gave it 3 stars, but I really do recommend this contemporary.
By pandareads
Dell is fat and depressed. Her father abandoned her family leaving them practically destitute in exchange for a young, dumb, newer-model wife. Dell's best friend Cara is attempting to break into the popular crowd and that leaves Dell feeling abandoned and unloved. Dell's mother is addicted to pills and a bitch. The only positive thing in Dell's life is her baby sister, whom she loves dearly.
The first thing that struck me about Empty was Dell's character. Dell does not let us forget that she's overweight. In the beginning of the novel, it seemed like every other sentence Dell narrated involved her feeling fat. I understand what it's like to be fat and how overwhelming and depressed that can make you feel, but in Dell's case, it seemed so over the top. I wanted to have genuine feelings of sympathy for her, but she made that a little difficult in the beginning.
But in Dell's defense, her life does kind of suck. Her family is falling about and when her best friend Cara starts abandoning her, things go from bad to worse, especially when they attend a party together with the popular crowd. It was after that that I really began to have sympathy for Dell. I just wanted her to find some happiness... and maybe a psychologist. Dell's love for her sister also made her a much more likable character. They way she described how sweet her baby sister was, new baby smell at all, it was very touching. I would love to see a sequel to Empty which focuses on Dell's sister when she becomes a teenager. Give Empty a read and I think you'll agree that would be very interesting.
The ending. I'm not going to give it away even though I'm probably the only person in the world who will read this book and totally not see it coming. I did not see it coming at all. Dell completely surprised me and even though I felt little emotion about her from the beginning, I did have a good cry at the end of this novel. That surprised me... maybe I felt a little for Dell after all.
Three stars. Empty started out a little off to me, but got better as I kept reading. This book is far from horrible and for the most part I did enjoy it. If you're a fan of depressing contemporaries (I know you are, who didn't love TFIOS?) I recommend you give this one a read. It's a very fast, easy read that might just surprise you.
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