Book review / I Should Have Worn a Curtain by Samyra Alexander

I Should Have Worn A Curtain: A Novella by Samyra Alexander

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The author does an excellent job in drawing a bleak picture of a life of someone, who suffers from eating disorder. It’s probably difficult – if not completely impossible – for those, who never had similar experience – to fully understand that every aspect of a person’s life is affected by this condition.

Shaena is a young girl, whose life could be so much brighter and happier if she wasn’t confined in the walls that bulimia had built around her. Her friends are not real friends, but only colleagues she chats with during a lunch break. Her boyfriend is not a real boyfriend, but an ambitious man, who wants to build a career as a fitness specialist and uses Shaena as a project to achieve that goal. Her family is real, but due to what they had gone through, she’s not very close with them.

The novella “I Should Have Worn a Curtain” by Samyra Alexander opens up a door to a nightmarish room that has “bulimia” sign on it.

Shaena’s story continues in the book 2, which I also read. I would recommend both books to everyone, who wants to feel what it’s really like to suffer from eating disorder.




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