Actual rating: 4.5 starsInitial thoughts: Clean is a very solid book. It explores life at a youth rehab from the perspective of five teenagers committed to it. They each battle with different addictions and have to face up to their problems. The writing varies from first-person prose to script-style...
3.5 I liked the concept of the book and I liked how open each individual seemed to be about their issues with addiction. I felt as I read the book that I was a counselor listening in to the sessions they were having yet at the same time I was also into the mind of each individual learning their dee...
Before starting on this book, I was rather hesitant, as sometimes, books containing taboo subjects don't work out as well as expected. However, I felt that Amy Reed executes this book perfectly.Through 5 different POVs(Christopher, Kelly, Eva, Olivia and Jason), we see them describing how they first...
"Clean" is about a story of a group of teens in rehab, with all sorts of different backgrounds in how they even got there in the first place. The newest kid is Olivia and out of all the kids she meets, she is the only one with a food problem from dieting too much.Throughout the story, you get to hav...
Thanks to Galley Grab for the ARC of this novel. Here is my honest review:I really enjoyed this rehab tale. It wasn't anything like what I was expecting, and I appreciated that. I love how Amy Reed dances around ideas, doesn't say things directly, but still makes sure the reader knows what she's tal...
This book is one of the best teen books I've read in a long while. It takes an unapologetic look at the ugly face of teen drug addiction. The five different characters in the book are addicted to different drugs for different reasons, and all come from different backgrounds. (Except the fact that th...
Also appears on The Screaming Nitpicker.Five different teenagers, five different sets of problems, and one adolescent rehab center. They're all here to conquer their demons and beat their various addictions. Kelly, pretty and well-liked, has a cocaine and alcohol addiction and related issues with se...
2011 is shaping up to be the year that I try reading books that I normally wouldn't have given the time of day. I'm much more of a romance reader. I like happy endings and pairing couples up and watching them fumble their way to their happy ending and in this book, there's no real love interests for...
Reviewed in July 2011:Every now and then there is a book that pulls you in from the very first page with no intention of letting you go. "Clean" is that book for me. What's so fantastic about "Clean" is that it's real, it's raw - it doesn't shy away from anything."Clean" tells the stories of Kelly, ...
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