First time I read it I was like 16 and loved it. Kept me on the edge wanting to keep reading more and more I couldn’t drop it. Very enjoyable read though it’s not a happy book it’s pretty raw and it plays well into emotions. Don’t let others reviews get u down on it specially like the one that says he doesn’t even know the drugs they are talking about even though he’s parents are lifelong junkies. If you don’t understand a slang just google it goddamnit (sorry saw a bunch a squares saying they can’t take the word goddamn so I wanted to use it). It’s an easy read pretty short and doesn’t go far off topic just to make it longer. Trust me u will like it 5/5.

I’m not even half way through the book and bought it two weeks ago, usually I finish a book within one weekend. This book is a big jumbled mess. It jumps around so much I don’t even know what’s she’s talking about sometimes and then there’s the horrible labeling of “drugs” in this book that I don’t even know what they are except for weed and I’m 24 years old with parents who have been addicts my entire life! The next problem with this book … every other word is god d**n I hate that word and it makes me cringe just reading it. I keep hoping it gets better but I’m disappointed so far the reviews I have read from this book are so miss leading.

Was just the open title page. Not the book.

I read this when I was in high school in study hall. I only read halfway through before the period ended, and I never got a chance to pick it up again. I really wanted to continue because I was hooked. I would go to the library periodically to see about finding it without luck. When the world ended in 2020, I got a chance to finally get it and finish it. It has not aged well at all. The anti drug message is loud and clear. Very loud. To the point of the story feeling like it was written by an edge lord. I’d pass on this one.

The book seems not based on actual experience

This book make me feel some type of way. She was very well spoken for her age, and her parents were nice people. She seemed to always try and do better for herself, it’s unfortunate it just had to end like that.

This book was literally painful to read, but so worth it. I read this at 12, probably should have waited a year or two but the hate is unneeded. This book is spectacular and I suggest it to anyone wanting to ‘feel something’ when they read their next book.

Read this book when I was a teenager and it’s one of my favorites

Read this when I was 14, read it again now at age 22. Still as compelling as I remember. Really resonates with you.

All this time later, and STILL Beatrice Sparks’s embarrassingly fake book gets treated as fact?! Why read and support this trash when there are so many genuinely reliable accounts of drug abuse published?