Pieces of Me

Kate McLaughlin

The next gut-punching, compulsively readable Kate McLaughlin novel, about a girl finding strength in not being alone.

When eighteen-year-old Dylan wakes up, she’s in an apartment she doesn’t recognize. The other people there seem to know her, but she doesn't know them – not even the pretty, chiseled boy who tells her his name is Connor. A voice inside her head keeps saying that everything is okay, but Dylan can’t help but freak out. Especially when she borrows Connor’s phone to call home and realizes she’s been missing for three days.

Dylan has lost time before, but never like this.

Soon after, Dylan is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and must grapple not only with the many people currently crammed inside her head, but that a secret from her past so terrible she’s blocked it out has put them there. Her only distraction is a budding new relationship with Connor. But as she gets closer to finding out the truth, Dylan wonders: will it heal her or fracture her further?

GenresYoung AdultMental HealthContemporaryFictionRealistic FictionMysteryYoung Adult Contemporary

368 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication April 18, 2023

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Pieces of Me

by Kate McLaughlin (Goodreads Author)

Read in January 2023

I finished Pieces of Me, by Kate McLaughlin, fairly quickly. I enjoyed the way the others in her head were presented. Quite an interesting way to present DID. The story begins with 18-year-old Dylan, who wakes up one day in an unfamiliar apartment with people she doesn't know. She has been missing 3 days, with no ideas how she got there nor why they are calling her by a different name.

Soon enough, Dylan is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. She must learn to get along with the many people - versions of her?, that are inside her head. She quickly learns she has a secret from her past that her “ house in her head full of people” have been trying too protect her from.

Pieces of Me was a success at putting a creative spin on a mental health situation most of us have little or no experience with. I’m sure the fiction doesn’t even begin to cover the complexities of the situation, but it was a great story for someone who might want to explore more.

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest review.