I've been captivated by the cover of this book for several years, and so decided to finally read it. I found it alternating sad, funny, poignant, threatening, and depressing. I liked it, but it seems maybe a little more YA than middle school. I guess the period of pot smoking was important to the story, but I wished the author had left out the one f**K, three bi**chs, four d**kheads, one g*dd*m*ed, and maybe the one kiss*ss. And it seemed the protagonist was having her period every other chapter.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Boucle -- Heavy looped pile. Refers to a sweater, in this case. Pg. 102
Quote:
Oh. My. God. Ms. Wiles had been right. I was in love with a small-time prep school drug dealer.
Typo:
...injected ... with an overdose of heroine. -- pg. 234