A beautiful, poignant, and heartbreaking companion to Ellen Hopkin's previous book "Impulse." As always, her usage of verse to tell the stories of all the struggles of the characters is incredibly gripping and feels so real you forget you're not reading memoirs. Heavy subject matter is definitely a running theme with Ellen Hopkins and this novel is no different, yet the heaviness never becomes off-putting because hey are all circumstances that teenagers do face and light needs to be shone on them more often and she always does a phenomenal job in doing so. Highly recommend this novel as well as any of her other works.