from bucketofrhymes

Thanks to goodreads and the publisher for a free copy of this book! I've been procrastinating on reviewing this because I wasn't sure how I felt about the book. I'm still not sure how I feel about the book, but it's sticking with me like you wouldn't believe. And I think the thing that gets me ...

from SusieH5

Katie is a teenager feeling pressured by her peers, who are drinking, having sex, taking drugs - when she is not yet ready for this. The tragedy of teenage pregnancies and the fear of pregnancy among her more promiscuous friends is well portrayed. Katie thinks she is in love with Luke, who she ha...

from froxgirl

This work of fiction claims to represent an amalgamation of many beach towns, but the author and I did grow up in the same one: Long Beach, NY. We were both there when the State of NY decided to make our small city a dumping ground for mental patients released from the gigantic shuttered mental h...