Emotionally involving and utterly heartbreaking, this book is trademark Ellen Hopkins. Furthermore, I have heard the statistic she references in her author's note, that the average age of prostitutes in America is 12, and it has always disturbed me immensely. It was interesting to see an interpretation of how that might happen, sometimes. The ending was perhaps more ambiguous than I like to see -- at least, the ending of Cody's story, and I really wanted to see (without giving anything away) if Eden ever got what she wanted -- but I think it accomplishes the goal of letting the reader glimpse the lives of a variety of teen prostitute-types.