Review: A book for every teen and her mother!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
This book was one of my favorite reads for a long time. What can I say about an author who puts a spell over the reader so it's impossible to put the book down? She either has supernatural powers or is a damn good writer. I won't even ask you to take my word for it; instead I saved you a few lines from the story. The heroine Steph Baxter, a tenth grader is just so darn perfect, she's beginning to hate the word and herself. So much pressure! So many ways to screw up! And so many pills in her mother's cupboard just waiting to make her life easier. At one point Steph is talking about her chubby, best friend Rachel and she says -"Hot dogs are her comfort food. I guess pills are mine." Another line that stuck out for me was - "Secrets are multiplying in my head like germs in a petri dish." Steph is so loveable and yet as you read from her point of view, you can see why she makes the choices she does with drugs, with her boyfriend and with her friends. When a husband and wife make the choice to split their world apart, their victims can be the ones they love the most. I had to give this wonderful story 5 stars and you'll see why for yourself when you read the book.