Status Updates From A Work of Art

Then there's the whole Tera threw out her old works and it gets recalled to this memory of her mom burning a drawing. If she's ashamed of her drawings, why is she defending her father this hard? There has to be a reason why she's ashamed like this. Then he's back to this whole secrecy thing and he tells her she isn't a real artist if she doesn't take pictures nude? It's weird.

At this point of the story, from the facts I know, it just feels like Tera is destroying her future to bail out her guilty father. It's kind of annoying. Also the whole time while her father's in jail she acts like she can't live her own life and that's depressing.

It's very hard to sort my first feelings about this book. I'm an artist and I can definitely understand the merits of studying nude figures, but the way her father reacted to her mother might catching him telling his daughter to draw nude figures kinda icked me. I feel like this should have been a conversation he had with the mother. On top of the way her mother is portrayed as crazy for dealing with mental health.

It’s okay. Sad.