Lucy in the Sky
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4.5 • 236 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal.
The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste—and liked it. Really liked it.
Social drinking and drugging lead to more, faster, harder... She convinced herself that she was no different from anyone else who liked to party. But the evidence indicates otherwise: Soon she was she hanging out with an edgy crowd, blowing off school and everything she used to care about, all to find her next high.
But what goes up must come down, and everything—from her first swig, to her last breath—is chronicled in the diary she left behind.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
More sensational than thought-provoking, this diary of a teenage drug addict traces a 16-year-old girl's downward spiral, beginning with her introduction to alcohol and marijuana and moving on to pretty much every other drug on the market. Driving home the "This could be you!" message, the narrator is portrayed as entirely ordinary: she comes from a loving middle-class family, thinks writing in a diary is "lame" at first, and regularly crushes on boys. The main focus is on the girl's growing obsession with getting high as she makes one mistake after another, hanging out with an older crowd, trusting the wrong people, brushing aside her older brother's concerns, and persuading herself she's in control. The girl-next-door narration relies on clich s and superfluous exclamations ("And then I realized that I felt good! Really good! Deep down to my feet good!"), emphasizing the protagonist's na vet . Echoing the theme and structure of Go Ask Alice, this inelegant cautionary tale paints an appropriately horrific picture of addiction, but offers little insight beyond what is taught in drug education programs. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Woah
This is an amazing story, but definitely for older readers. I read it at 12 and probably should have waited a year or two, but it is definitely a good book. Shocking, riveting, and gut-wrenching all at the same time. Made me think in a way I never thought I would think. So good
Missed the mark
I’ve read lots of the anonymous stories (Jays journal, Go ask Alice. Etc.) and this book completely misses the mark. The story line is a 16 year old girl who wants to fit in and be cool. She has a good family background with good values but has never been able to make friends or has even had a best friend. She befriends a boy & girl who introduce her to drugs and alcohol. She’s driven to doing drugs to not be left out even though time and time again catastrophes occur. It’s an endless cycle, it seems to be the same story over and over again. She’ll see a hard drug, think it’s not a good idea, does it anyways, and something really bad always happens. The parents are completely oblivious to her being strung out on Xanax, coke, and even crystal meth. Even though she receives a dui, her parents allow her to be friends with the kids she’s doing drugs with. For some reason, she shoots up heroine & meth at the same time. She dies, gets a second chance at life, and then dies a month later from the same lethal injection that killed her the first time. Her friends apparently forget that she died from that, and her parents for some reason allowed her to be out of their sight when this girl proves time and time again that you cannot do that. Her drugs come from the same people, there’s no story development. Very disappointing.
Lucy in the sky
Coming from a family full of addicts I get it. The book was good but the ENDING had me screaming!!!! What kind of ending is that?! I mean really . She dies within 1 year when it just started with pot!? Not really common. I don’t think this book sheds as much light as it could have .