It didn't take long for me to be sucked into this writing. This prose is beautiful. This was the first of Suma's books I've read, but it certainly won't be the last. It's gritty and intoxicating, down to the most seemingly mundane of details. I mean, this is my favorite line: 
 The day my best friend got sent to prison, I was a hundred miles away, eating cheese. 
 Talk about packing a punch. 
 I suppose I should talk about the story itself, too. 
 On the surface, it's about a juvenile prison for girls. But there's something eerie about Aurora Hills Detention Center, and how its residents see things--not creepy paranormal things how we're used to seeing creepy paranormal things, but they see an alternate timeline of sorts. Or the future of the detention center. Whatever it is, it's not the halls of "home" as they know them, but the ghostlike figures and abandoned decor of the walls they currently occupy is jarring. 
 The story is all over the place. It's loosely woven between narrators and timelines. Ori is the center of this world, though we hear little from her directly. We hear from her best friend, Violet, left behind when Ori went to prison, and Amber, who ultimately shares a cell with her. Though the two technically never meet, their fates were intertwined the day Ori was arrested. 
 The supernatural aspects throw you off. They appear at random, and don't seem to fit, and you wonder if it's really happening or if it's a hallucination. Either could be the truth. The ending is a wild ride, which will either tie everything together or throw you off completely. Or both. 
 I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn't mean they were the good ones.