Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Format: Physical
Number of Pages: 391
Thoughts: This book was a slow start for me and then bang it hit me in the feel I at one point like No, this is going to be a sad book isn't it damn it. This book deals with a real mental illness PTSD the main Character father struggle with it, and it bad, really bad. It also deals with not fitting it our main character has been on the road with her father for years and now starting at a public school where she only knows one person from her childhood. Along with what going on with her father her childhood friend is dealing with her parents fighting and separating, and now in a healthy way at all. To top it all off her boyfriend is dealing with his sister who an addict. So with all of this going on it seems a bit much but somehow Anderson brings it all together and makes a great novel it something that makes you see things for how it really is and it doesn't hold back the punches you see how bad Hayley father can get. you see how bad Hayley trying to hold it all together and not get hurt her self. You see the downhill spiral Gracie is going down with her family and you see Finn struggle of being a good son and boyfriend and not trying to tell either person the person they are trying to save don't want to be saved yet.
Rating: 4 stars
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