Review: Deeply Emotional, Fast Paced
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2013
This is a pretty short, deeply emotional, fast paced book about a girl who goes to Philly to spend the summer with her Aunt and cousins, due to her parents having a pretty messy divorce.Melanie has grown up in California where her life is good, and she has the benefit of being pretty sheltered from the real world, until she gets to PA and see's how others without the protection from their parents live.Melanie goes from being a very innocent, young 15 year old to a young women who learns that life isn't always unicorns and rainbows. She learns rather fast, so she can fit in and also survive.For 3 months her life gets turns=ed upside down, seeing others use/sell drugs and drinking alcohol, just trying to survive living in a world that is never going to be perfect.Bad things happen and Melanie learns to grow up rather fast. In the end she is fortunate to be able to walk away from it all even though she will never ever be able to forget what happens to her and others she cares about.