DNF 1/10/13 
 Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for approving me to read this egalley. I apologize to them that I had to mark it as DNF. 
 I was very iffy on this book before I started to read it. Some people liked it despite it not being what they thought, some people hated it... I was one of the latter. Maybe hate it a little strong, but my feelings were strong enough to decide not to finish. 
 For as far as I got (only 35 pages), I wasn't enjoying any part of it. The chapters weren't even quite chapters - The first several were almost more like diary entries than telling a story. Maybe that's because of the young age of the main character, but even still, it was hard to follow and half of the characters (stepfather, stepbrothers) didn't even have names. It wasn't descriptive and it wasn't engaging. 
 Then we get to a part where's she's thirteen and (maybe older by this point) but it gets weirdly sexual. I'll put this part into spoiler hiders, but WTF I need to talk about it and this is the point where I decided to stop reading... (view spoiler)[When the boy on the bus has her jerk him off over his jeans ON THE SCHOOL BUS IN FRONT OF OTHER KIDS and even common sense bells don't go off in this girl's head? And she lets him? And he's grabbing her boob?? Okay. I'm done. Can't read anymore. (hide spoiler)] 
 I mean, I get that this wasn't a happy story and I actually knew that going in, but I was just so weirded out and incredibly disappointed and felt a little bit like a pervert reading about such young sexual encounters. Usually I tell people to try it, you might like it - But this would be an actual "Do Not Read, my friends". 
 Also, if it's not a happy story... Change the cover!! SOOO misleading.