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Lena Horowitz

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Pretty explicit, but feels preachy at the end. Our main character is really selfish, and finally figures it out.

There is a large except form [b:wtf|6620386|wtf|Peter Lerangis|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348026772s/6620386.jpg|6814547]WTF at the end, which makes the book look a bit larger.
 
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readingbeader | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 29, 2020 |
Many thanks to Simon Pulse for this copy.

It took me 3 hours to read this book and after that end, I kind of wish I hadn't. The writing is a journal style, but reads as though the author had more to say, but lacked the effort to fill the spaces. The journal entries are long and read as though you're in the moment, including a lot of she did this, he did this, and I did this. I would have liked it more if it had read like a novel, with conversations, and more descriptions. You don't get to know the narrator terribly well, in fact I don't even know her name, but I know she was very self conscious and even more self-absorbed.

The novel probably should be a warning against the slide of ecstasy, one that I'll honestly say I know, but it really puts it in a positive light, until nearly the end. The overdose problems are placed on the user, not on the drug. That said, if this is a teen book, I wouldn't trust teens to not be interested in trying it after reading this. I do feel that the descriptions of moments were accurate and pulled you in, even if the journal style didn't work. You come to really like the narrators significant other; I found myself angry with the narrator when she chose partying time after time when he offered her something else and real feelings. The family reacts as many families do, choosing to help the narrator rather than leave her on her own to wade the rough waters.

All in all, quick easy read, but the ending made me hate it. It ended so abruptly with so much negativity that even the last positive closing sentence couldn't save it for me.
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CarleneInspired | 2 andere besprekingen | Jun 14, 2019 |
I wanted to read Dancing with Molly because I can relate with that all American normal feeling. I have always felt like I can just melt into a crowd, that there isn't much that distinguishes me from others, or worse, that I may be the butt of a joke. So I could relate with her on that.

Although I normally want to get to know the character before something big happens that changes their lives, Dancing with Molly was okay for me to start in the after. She is writing in a journal but it never felt forced to me, or hard to read. I honestly just felt like a normal past tense 1st person POV. Which is good, because sometimes the journals or poetry isn't for me and gets in my way of enjoying a story.

Her family is talked about a lot. She feels like she is a disappointment to her Mom who favors her sister. Her sister is going to the prom as a sophomore, and will giggle and share secrets with her mom, but she always feels like her Mom wishes a different life or personality for her. I was glad that her dad was enthusiastic about her marching band though, and that she at least seemed to have that haven.

I liked her friends, even though they are in on taking the drugs and drinking as well. They never pressured her per say, but she was definitely a follower, and on the night she first took it, she wanted to break out from the normalness.

Oh and this is not a subject I really know much about, and to prove it to you, I thought that molly was the name of the main character for an embarrassingly long percentage of the book.

I did like how by the ending, she has realized a lot about rolling and the cost of it, and I even think that it went to a bit of an extreme after the close calls she witnessed but I guess that it finally got heavy and hard enough for her to want to stop. And I think that probably makes it realistic, because if all people who have tried or are thinking about trying to stop or didn't do drugs because of close calls, then we would have a drug free nation.

Bottom Line: Allure and dangers of taking drugs from a teen easy to relate to.
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brandileigh2003 | 2 andere besprekingen | May 22, 2015 |

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