Lucy in the Sky

by Anonymous

A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal. The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste—and liked it. Really liked it.Social drinking and drugging lead to more, faster, harder... She convinced herself that she was no different from anyone else who liked to party. But the evidence indicates Soon she was she hanging out with an edgy crowd, blowing off school and everything she used to care about, all to find her next high.But what goes up must come down, and everything—from her first swig, to her last breath—is chronicled in the diary she left behind.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Mental Health, Addiction, Teen

289 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2012

About the author

Books can be attributed to "Anonymous" for several reasons:

* They are officially published under that name
* They are traditional stories not attributed to a specific author
* They are religious texts not generally attributed to a specific author

Books whose authorship is merely uncertain should be attributed to Unknown.

See also: Anonymous

Reviews

[Linzy Stahle · Rating 1 out of 5]

The cover states "In the tradition of Go Ask Alice" when it should say "Practically Go Ask Alice written in exactly the same way with the same ending all over again, but with less consequences." I would be afraid that kids/teens reading this book would just WANT to do drugs because the author makes everything sound fun and exciting! Yes it ends tragically but instead of spending time telling about the recovery process and the awful reprocussions of drug use, most details are about how "incredible" these drugs made the girl feel. I know the author was trying to make an anti-drug theme, but it totally came across as the opposite.

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hardly made it into this book before deciding to put it down because the main character made me want to bash my head in, and if roughly 30 pages had me raging, there was no way I would be able to make it through the rest of the book.

Are sixteen year olds really this naive and annoying? Within the first handful of pages, the main character (god forbid I call her a protagonist) is filling her journal with CAP.IT.AL. letters and so many exclamation points it was painful to read!!! Her attitude seemed so much younger than that of sixteen. Aside from typing like an asshole, the character throws herself onto any guy who pays her the slightest bit of attention. "My math tutor totally must like me!! O.M.G. I met this guy who is complete stranger but we're going to hang out and I already have our wedding planned!! Oh and even though I've met him once, I'm totally fine with taking drugs that he offers me because nothing bad can come from this!! I've smoked one joint but I wish I had one right now!! WEED IS AMAZIIIIIING!"

Seriously. If that isn't enough to make you want to throw the book across the room, I commend you.

[Ali Morse · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got through this book in about a day and a half. It was really gripping. Knowing from the beginning that she is going to die, it really made me rip through the pages because I wanted to know HOW. It's like in Romeo and Juliet, when you KNOW they end up committing mutual suicide, and it makes it that much harder to put down. I wanted to know HOW she ended up with that fate. Overdose? High while driving? Suicide? Homicide over drug dealing? This book is really powerful, and it definitely has effected me a lot.
She gets admitted to a rehab center at the end of the book and genuinely decides to turn her life around and I think, 'Well she's all better now, how does she die?'
Then the very last page is a police report, telling of her overdose.
And you wonder, how did that happen? Did she choose to fall back into it so quickly? Or did they somehow manipulate her into it?
This book is just really astonishing and I reccomend it to any teen because you WILL relate to it, even if you've never done drugs.

[Renee Hall · Rating 1 out of 5]

First off, in case it's not painfully obvious from the cover design, this book is an updated take on the same sort of story told in Go Ask Alice, since I'm assuming Alice is now so dated as to be laughable, at least for those currently falling in the YA age range. And if I were a teenager encountering Lucy for the first time, I might have rated this higher. The problem here is that this really is absolutely nothing more than a new telling of the exact same story. If you've read Go Ask Alice, you already know how this is going to shake out. Casual alcohol use, casual drug use, things escalate, scary stuff happens, she bottoms out, she gets help, she starts to turn things around, and then you turn the page to find out that she died, completely abruptly, with no indication of how she got from clean to dead.

I guess the notion here is that it's supposed to be the angle of, no matter what you do, when you get that far down that road it's very, very hard to come back, so it's best not to start down it at all... but when I started to think about it, that's kind of a lukewarm message to send to teens who might very well be in the early stages of this character's story themselves, and might benefit from some kind of hope in terms of, hey, you can get help, you can beat this. Instead, I could see some kid reading this, who is using drugs/alcohol at a casual but escalating level, and feeling like hey, looks like I'm gonna die no matter what, so I might as well enjoy myself, because trying to get clean doesn't work. (Of course, I think most teens are smarter than that, but I'm still questioning what teens are supposed to take from this book other than just the obvious "don't do drugs.")

The other tiresome thing about Lucy is the style of the writing. It's written as the teenage protagonist's diary, so of course you expect the voice to sound like a teenager.

But OMG OMG OMG this book
Sounds.
So.
ANNOYING!

SIGH!

Yes, it's written like that. I got used to it, somewhat, about a third of the way in, but at times it would still grate on me. To be fair, I'm sure there are teenagers who do actually talk like that. I would question, though, how many of them write like that, in particular the type of teenager who would actually be interested in keeping a detailed ongoing journal. (Or maybe I'm just getting old; I allow for that possibility.)

Overall, a dated concept given surface retooling for a modern audience, only recommended for those too young to have read the original.

[✨Cassie ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this book down from the moment I bought it. I read 'Go Ask Alice', so I knew what this book would be like.

Going throughout this 16 year old girls life for a year. She starts out like any normal 16 year old, but she is missing something. She wants friends who she can call her "FRIENDS" people to hang out with and a best friend to laugh with and gossip with.

At her first party with her brother and a new boy she has met name Ross, she meets Lauren and this is where everything starts going a bit down hill. With her new friends Lauren, Ross, Ian and Blake(The 20 yr old guy who she likes) She starts smoking Weed.

Throughout the months, she doesn't want to do anything where Cosmos or weed isn't involved. How could it be fun?

Trying a little coke wont hurt anything right? Well, it does and she finds herself helpless, with two boys on Homecoming night in a jacuzzi fighting them off. After promising her brother Cam that she would lay off the drugs and drinking and step a bit back from her bad influences Lauren, Ross, Ian and Blake then Cam wont tell their parents if she keeps her promise. She tries, she really does, but the craving is too much and she misses it all.

It starts with....

BEER
COSMOS
WEED
ACID
COKE
E
XANAX
METH(TINA)
HEROIN

Now she wakes up after almost a year of partying and finds herself in Rehab. How did she get there, she doesn't remember a thing? She was missing for a week, and almost died.

Can she stay on the straight and narrow, with her new sponsor, or will she find her self trying to chase that amazing feeling she loves the most???

I loved this book and wouldn't put it down for anything. All of us experimented with stuff we are not proud of, but hopefully we didn't get dragged into the world that this girl faced. And if they did, you got pulled back and helped. She didn't, everyone tried, but chasing the high was what she wanted at the end of the day.

I believe that this is a book that young kids should read.

[Anjahochhuth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lucy in the Sky is an incredibly moving story. The author is anonymous, but has wrote several other similar stories. This book makes realize why some people make the decisions they do. The main character, whose name isn't revealed, goes from a normal teen to a drug addict. This story is the main characters diary, which puts you in her shoes.
Growing up is certainly hard. But for the main character in this book, she is introduced to drugs and alcohol at a very odd moment in her life. She has never been to a party, or had any friends. So when she finally gets a couple of friends, and they introduce her to drugs, she doesn't think twice. Through her diary entries, you can see how much drugs affect you and what it is like on the inside of a drug addicts mind. Her relationship with her parents start lacking, her grades become very poor, and her health is very poor. Unfortunately, she plans on stopping but every time she is close to a drug, she gives in.
I recommend this book to mature teens. It teaches you very good lessons about the choices you make. I learned that something I think could be fun, can actually be life threatening. Another reason why this book is good for teenagers is because the anti-drug videos we watch are filled with bad acting and boring facts. But, in Lucy in the Sky it teaches much better lessons. Because unfortunately, it is true. This story is very sad, but I know it will help teens make better decisions.

[Aljon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Perhaps this book was meant to teach readers not to do drugs, but... I think it sent the wrong message. To me, it glorified drugs; every time the main character took a hit of something, she talked about how AMAZING it was and how good it made her feel. And though terrible things happen to her due to using drugs, she never seemed to learn.

And because of how destructive she was, I wasn't surprised at how the book ended. It was that obvious.

[Alyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would've given this five stars if not for the horrible ending that paralleled Go Ask Alice. Can't this author write a book that does not involve death by overdose?

[ashes ➷ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Less in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and more Go Ask Alice 2. Falls into essentially all the pitfalls of the original (completely unbelievable, 99% anti-drug propaganda, sensationalized, misogynist) and invents some more (mostly the pedophilic relationship).

I think the main reason I found this so absolutely bananas was the way the characters took drugs-- several at a time, plus alcohol, just to have SUCH A GREAT PERFECTLY-REMEMBERED TIME!, possibly throw up, possibly pass out, and wake up the next day to go to school. I am so straightedge I asked a friend to make sure I wasn't just unaware, but once I quoted the line "washed down our Xanax [with cosmos]" it was hard to give any more benefit of the doubt. (This is before the weed, the martinis, the vodka, the ecstasy, and then somehow more cosmos before the end of the night.) Some people take issue with how this glamorizes drugs, but IMO addiction itself wasn't explained well enough to the reader. Sure, it's a nice time, but withdrawal was just not realistically or empathetically characterized such that it was hard to really Feel what the characters were feeling. And, sure, withdrawal is nearly impossible to describe... but the author did sign up to write a book about drug addiction, so.

Personally, I was more bothered by the characterization of age-gap relationships (if you can even call it that). The main character gets into one and the fallout is less about the intrinsic issues in exploitation of age gap power differentials between older men and younger women... and just this guy in particular sucking, personally. Everything about his age is played up as uber-cool (a band! which he travels with! because he's out of school!), and his failures are all pretty personal (being kind of mean sometimes, etc.) There is zero interest in even approaching the actual reason age-gap relationships are bad, which is actually harmful, because a lot of teens already have a pretty shallow understanding of how power dynamics like these work and the utter lack of rights children have (in part because they are actively being brainwashed by adults around them). And, again, sorry to this author, but they did fully choose to write this narrative, and it is kind of incomprehensible why someone would choose to write about the trouble with age gap relationships if they have zero interest in... interrogating the trouble with age gap relationships.

Anyway! This took me so long to review just because I did have that much ^ to say, but it hardly felt important to say it. These are not held in particularly high regard by society. I don't think anyone is sincerely recommending these books to teenagers (and if you are, for the love of God, stop!) They're silly and easy and relatively fun to read-- I was laughing out loud at each successive addition to the cocktail of the night-- and I doubt I'll return to them again. Bonus star merely for how easy it was to read.

[Andria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Teenage me gives it 5 stars, adult me is a bit more critical so we're compromising with 3.

This is, obviously, an updated reworking of Go Ask Alice and the general plot is the same: good girl falls in with the wrong crowd, and goes from straight-edge virgin to junkie slut in the course of one school year. The cover blurb says it all: "One party. One taste. No turning back."

Curious teenage girls who want to vicariously experience drug use without consequences will eat this up. And our anonymous narrator does make it all seem rather fun: tripping on acid, rolling on ecstasy, snorting rails of cocaine and swilling cosmos at swanky parties. Until the inevitable downfall. And fall she does.

The speed with which she slides down that slippery, slippery slope from her first timid sip of beer to injecting crystal meth is almost comical. At one point she refers to her life as being like a Lifetime movie. That's only because she's too young to remember After School Specials. Drugs are fun, but drugs are bad and if you do even one drug there is no turning back AND DRUGS WILL KILL YOU IN THE END .

The one MAJOR improvement over the original is that, unlike GAA, this book doesn't blatantly misrepresent itself as a true story.

[Melinda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is pretty much an updated version of Go Ask Alice. I think my younger self would've enjoyed it a little bit more....and I may also be a little burnout on the drug books, this being like my 3rd in a row.
I was a little disappointed in the ending....it just ended. But this is supposed to be a real girls journal, so I guess it would just end no matter what was going on. I have another one of these "anonymous" books, this one about a guy I think, but I'm gonna hold off for a little bit before I read it..
But if you enjoyed Go Ask Alice, then you'll more than likely enjoy this one too!

[Imani Steele · Rating 4 out of 5]

Being familiar with the well known Crank book series, by Ellen Hopkins, I often look for books that I can relate to, a book that discusses the problems that we, teenagers, might encounter, at some point during our young adult life; something that doesn’t sugarcoat the realities of the world and talks about the dangers, in which we might face, while living in the modern world. Teens want to be able to read books that they can relate to. The novel, Lucy in the Sky, appealed to me because it’s a genuine story that talks about things, in which I can relate to. Also, the story helps us face reality of what can actually happen to a teen. Lucy in the Sky, by Anonymous, is a fictional book, based off of real life situations, for teenagers to read.
The unique thing about the book is that there is some sort of mystery behind it. The story itself is not necessarily a mystery, but there are certain elements that are a mystery to us, in this story. For instance, the author and the main character are mysteries to us. The author’s name is “’Anonymous” and we never learn the name of the main character, we just have to refer her as the sixteen year old girl, whose life changes dramatically, throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, the girl is what we would call a “good girl”. She’s her parents “perfect angel” and she does very well in school, but she hardly has a social life. One day she decides to go to a yoga class her older brother, and there she meets a handsome, teenage boy, named Ross. She starts hanging out with Ross and he introduces her to a whole new world. He also introduces her to his group of friends, who turn out to be bad influences on her. She starts doing things she never imagined herself doing and she doesn’t know how to stop. It’s all fun and games, until one day she finds herself in a dark place, where she doesn’t know how to come back from.
Even though this book is a fictional novel, it’s based off of real life situations, which makes this a genuine story. In the novel, you see a how an innocent teenage girl transforms into an addicted rebel. What I like about this book is, it seems as if the anonymous author didn’t have any limits, when it came to writing it. The plot is very detailed about the situations that occur in the story. It’s important for the author to write this way because it wouldn’t make sense to talk about a controversial topic, but to sugarcoat the realities revolving around it. If you’re going to talk about things such as drugs, violence, or sex you have to be able to be real with your audience and come from a genuine perspective.
If you like any of the books in the Crank series, by Ellen Hopkins, or if you’ve read Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous, then you’ll love this book. I recommend this book for people who are 14 years or older. Some of the content of this book might be too graphic or too mature for viewers younger than that age. I believe people that are mature enough for this story should read it because it can also be a moral lesson for them, especially the young adults, who might put themselves in the same situation as the main character.

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

These books. I just can't.

After finishing this book, I've decided that Letting Ana Go is much better. This book irritated me so much. SO MUCH.

I was a teenager not too long ago, and nothing in this book rang true to me. I'm sorry but show me one teenager that drinks cosmos or suddenly feels like the most bad ass person alive after taking a couple of hits off of one joint then suddenly becomes hooked on all the drugs immediately after.

I've seen a lot of people attack others for writing not-so-great reviews about these types of books, saying that they're actual journals written by actual teenagers so how can we criticize the way it's written and blah blah blah etc etc. Actually, these types of books are purely fictional. I know there's a lot of speculation about Go Ask Alice being based off an actual diary, but this one is fiction. To me, it seemed like whoever wrote this book was a teenager a LONG time ago and tried their very best to write a "diary" based on how a real teenager would write. I decided to go read some of the journals I kept when I was in high school and let me tell you, they are embarrassing. The main character's voice just did not sound like it belonged to a teenager, as well as the other characters in this book.

I'm also aware that this book is meant to be anti-drugs, but honestly, it does nothing but glorify the use of drugs. Every time the main character took something, all she did was talk about how amazing and incredible it made her feel and how she couldn't wait to go to the next party. She drove me nuts. I couldn't stand her from the very minute after she smoked weed for the first time and said something along the lines of, "Am I a total stoner now?" I just couldn't stand how bad ass this girl thought she was. The part where she and her friend trips on acid is almost comical and not in a good way.

Also, the way this girl wrote in her diary was VERY. ANNOYING. I just didn't find it NECESSARY to capitalize RANDOM WORDS to GET HER POINT ACROSS.

SO.
ANNOYING.

To be completely honest, I have no idea how these books have such great ratings. I've read this one, Letting Ana Go, Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal, and pretty much hated them all. That's just me though.

So, in the end I decided to rate this book 2 stars.

[Nicole ✨Reading Engineer✨ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wow... This book is an exact replica of Go Ask Alice, and if you've read that there is no need to read this. It even says on the cover, "In Tradition of Go Ask Alice." Come on. How much more cliche can one get?! The book even ends the same way!!!

While I get that the author was trying to make it seem like drugs are a bad idea (and before anyone gets on my case this book is fiction), but the author makes it seem like drugs are a wonderful experience. The author makes the experience sound blissful, and exciting, which was not their intent. But they ultimately failed at it.

I have to say that Go Ask Alice did a better job at this anti-drug propaganda thing, and this book is simply the same thing. I would not recommend this book to anyone if they have read Go Ask Alice, but if you haven't I suggest reading that over Lucy in the Sky.

[Jessica☆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing, I loved how you saw a young girls normal life, progress into being addicted to drugs. The writing was simple yet powerful and it had me gripped instantly. The ending for me was unexpected and heart breaking, and left me feeling alot of emotions. I honestly loved this book so very much, and would reccommend it to people who don't mind reading about serious subjects like drugs.

[Casandra Valencia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing, it had lots of drama, which i like drama in books. When I pick this book out I read the back summary, when I read the back of the book I got interested. This book is about a girl who made bad choices in life, so did her friends."The choices you make can bring you good or bad"

[Dani · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a terribly hard book to read. Teen addiction is real. It makes me realize it can happen to anyone.

[Whitney · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMAZING BOOK! I couldn't put it down! DEFINITELY a must read!!

[Lex · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is and has been my favourite book ever since i picked it up at 16, this story is just amazing. every book in this series is great 10000000 times recommend any of them

[Lexi · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5/5 do all of these books end the same way??

[Juliana Encinas · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Lucy in the Sky” by Anonymous was written in the same style as “Go Ask Alice”, a fictional story supposedly based off of the diaries of a teenage drug addict whose life spiraled out of control and ended with death. The story is about a sixteen year old girl with a loving family and a good start in life. She doesn’t have any real friends except for her brother, Cam, until they meet Ross in yoga class. Ross introduces her into a whole new world. She is vulnerable and gets influenced very easily, not wanting to be “left out” of anything. It all begins when she joins Ross at the beach to watch him surf and it goes downhill quickly from there.
They go back to his truck, leaving the beach and he pulls out a small pipe filled with marijuana. He takes a hit and passes it to her. They begin smoking on the regular together when he takes her to a party at his friend Blake’s house. Blake has an instant attraction to her; he’s 20 years old, but that only further entrances her. At the party, she meets a girl named Lauren and Ross’s boyfriend, Ian, Lauren introduces her to drinking, which also soon becomes a regular thing. She sees Blake snort a line of cocaine. It all seems so “cool” to her, so exotically attracting. She wants to fit in, she wants them to like her. She continues to follow them, down the downward spiral of drug addiction, tearing her family apart along the way.
Her personality changes, she becomes mean. She used to tell her brother everything, then begins to lie to feed her addiction. She used to be a wallflower, always alone or in her brother’s shadow. Then, she sits the elite. To everyone else they look flawless, walking perfection, but really they’re drug addicts wearing designer labeled clothes. She loses her innocence and almost gets raped and continues to trust those who put her in that situation, She ultimately gives up on her grades and everything that used to matter to her. She stops working about tomorrow and only today’s high.
Why? Because she saw Lauren and she was everything she hoped to be. She was beautiful, confident, and wealthy. She made her failures of choices look like Grammy awards, something to be proud of. She wanted to feel like Lauren did, she wanted to feel GOOD and the only way she knew how to do this, was drugs. They became her usual, her regular, everyday feeling and without them, she was miserable.
She lost herself in the crowd, not realizing that just because everyone else is doing it, does not mean that you should took. the book tells the sad truth of what happens every day, that the monster of addiction can get to absolutely anyone. It can even get to those you idolize. the lesson is to be your own person and learn from other’s mistakes, not follow them to their death.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to say upfront that I do not compare books to one another. I don't think that is a fair thing to do. Not for the author nor the novel. However, Lucy in the Sky has been compared to Go Ask Alice by basically saying that it is just a modern day version. That being said, I am going to voice my opinions based on the two books and their similarities.

I really like the message in this book. I always will. I will always stand up for it. I'm not sure I care for how it was delivered. Then again, I am old school. I don't care for text speak and every other word in all capital letters. I felt the MC was a bit over the top in trying to make her point in almost everything she does. This may be typical for, say, an average teen girl. I just didn't buy it. I was annoyed with her and the repetitiveness of her actions that were not relevant to the story.

I think know I would have been happy with the original version of Go Ask Alice. It did not need to be updated for me to understand the message. It is still the same [and always will be] however you rearrange the setting. However, maybe kids these days did/do need it updated so it's more on their level and they can relate better?

It is a shame that children/teens and even adults turn to a substance so that they can feel better about themselves. Maybe even like or believe in him or herself.

There will always be drugs. There will always be peer pressure. There will always be temptation. There will always be curiosity. There needs to be more education, the use of common sense, and willpower, and self-esteem, and the courage to say NO.

I read every single page of this book. Even though I was irritated at some several points. My rating is not deferred by what I did not like because that is my opinion. My rating is based on the message of the book and how it was portrayed and because the situation is not only extremely sad but also one that's very true and a serious reoccurring problem.

I still feel that no matter how it is worded this type of scenario happens every day and my original review for Go Ask Alice will suffice for this book as well. That review can be found here --> http://ladysbookstuff.blogspot.com/20....

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ahhhhhh, this book had it all. It had drugs, it had alcohol, it had sex and it had me hooked within a few pages. Welcome to the world of sixteen year old Lucy. Her once “boring” life has suddenly changed and now she is sitting on top of the world, or at least she feels she is sitting on top of the world because of the drugs and/or the booze which are now consuming her life. In diary journal format, her life is told in such vivid format, you have to love the honestly and emotions that she puts into her writing. Since being introduced to the drug and alcohol scene, Lucy’s life has taken a 180 degree turn and she loves the attention and freedom that she possesses. She is invincible. New friends, a new life and new opportunities now await her with every new party and every new illegal activity she performs. Cam her older brother is like a watchdog and tries to pull her back when she goes too far but Lucy only gets more sneaky with her antics and she becomes more fearless in her activities. How far can she go without major consequences? She starts out with the lighter drug of marijuana and before long she is experimenting with the harder drugs, to be “cool” and not be “left out.” Yes, there are blackouts, there is high school, there are lies, there are parents who try to set limits, and there are situations which make you feel for the players acting in this play…. yes folks it is reality. I loved it, I truly did, one of my favorite reads. I thought the friendship she had with Lauren was going to go places, I had dreams for her, hopes. The ending, excellent!!!

“Now I wish I’d never EVER even taken a tiny toke off of the pipe Ross handed me. I wish I’d never laid eyes on Lauren or taken a martini glass full of ice-cold cosmos from her……….And it’s not because it made me feel so bad. It’s because it made me feel SO GOOD.

A few swear words in the book.

[Erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reasons I didn't like this book:

1) The author seemed to glorify drug use. He or she made it seem like they wanted the readers to go out and try E and coke and go smoke pot and meth and shoot up heroin.

2)She NEVER seemed to learn. AA meetings, one DUI, and an almost rape wasn't enough to teach her to stay away from drugs, I guess. Even when she got clean towards the end, she fucks it up and dies!

3)There's little to no character development. She goes from cosmos to pot to coke to E to meth to heroin pretty quickly. In reality--I'm speaking from experience, here--it usually doesn't move that quickly. Even her brother doesn't develop all that much.

4)She's so whiny! She doesn't understand that when her parents are "treating her like a prisoner" they're doing it because they care about her and want her to stop, which she doesn't. And it's not like her life is so hard to begin with. She bitches and whines about the most mundane things when she's got this nice house on a beach in LA, an older brother and parents who TRULY care about her, enough money to just take of to Mexico for a week, and God only knows what else.

5)The older brother was a big issue for me. He preaches and preaches she shouldn't do drugs and drink etc. yet he goes and gets high. Granted it's not as serious as the main character, but it's still hypocritical and a little ridiculous. Another issue I had with that character was the fact that they hint at him doing pot towards the beginning/middle, but by the end, he just...quits. They don't go into when or how he quits--the why is implied, if you ask me--he just...quits.

Overall, I DID NOT like this book. If you want a good anti-drug book that will scare most people away from that lifestyle, go read Crank or Go Ask Alice.

In my opinion, Lucy in the Sky is a but if a flop.

[Sam Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

1) This book was written in the format of a journal by a 16 year old girl. She's an average girl in high school with not too many friends. Over the summer though, she meets a few people who she becomes close with and hangs out with them regularly. She ends up drinking with them and doing drugs. It gets to the point that she dies of a heroin/meth overdose. This "journal" is what she "left behind."
2) I gave this book four stars. I really liked the overall concept of it, but in parts you could tell it was written to seem like a teenager's journal, such as all caps and repeating letters in a word. (example: AAAAAAAHHHHH!)
3) "I rolled up my sleeve. Lauren just looked at me, then shook her head. I said, Lauren. I want this. I'm not getting left out again." (Anonymous, 253)
This quote made me think that the girl who wrote this journal is insecure. She wasn't sure about shooting up until she had found out that her other friends had already done it. Then she did it simply because she didn't want to be left out. It also shows that those people aren't her real friends if she's so desperate to fit in. It stuck out to me because throughout the book I had hope that each time she said she was done with drugs, she meant it. Once she started shooting up I realized that she was done for.
4) There are some humor techniques in this book that we went over in class such as hyperboles and understatements.
5) I would recommend this book to teenagers/young adults. I've always been interested in books with people who take drugs so if anyone else is interested in that, they may like this book as well. It was a good read overall.

[PinkAmy loves books, cats and naps · Rating 1 out of 5]

Junior year is going to be different for quiet, straight-laced Lucy. For the first time she has friends, a possible love interest and her older brother Cam is treating her like a grownup bringing her to parties. Her new friends smoke weed, even Cam does sometimes so Lucy gives it a try. Too bad she likes it so much. Soon Lucy and her friends are trying different, more dangerous drugs, while hoping Cam doesn't catch on. Lucy quickly spirals out of control. Can anyone stop her from self-destructing?

LUCY IN THE SKY is written in fictionalized journal style by "Anonymous". While the story about a teen's descent into substance abuse could have been a cautionary tale, about 70% of this novel documents Lucy's drug usage in excruciating detail, often glamorizing the highs and minimizing the consequences. I would never recommend this virtual how-to manual to a teenager. I'd never recommend LUCY IN THE SKY to parents either, because they'd look at the parents in the book and think, "I'm not like that" since the characters were cardboard-like stereotypes.

The book ended abruptly and seemed to say, "Make sure you're careful if you use drugs, don't go overboard."

[Donna (Jaevenstar) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really don't think this is very spoilerish... but just in case, I marked it having spoilers...

I received this book in the mail from Simon and Schuster for review. It's an ARC.

Basically, it is a modern day Go Ask Alice. A good girl is sucked into a downward spiral of drug addiction. As always it is very disturbing to witness someone become addicted so easily and then have the addiction go almost completely unnoticed by family members.

In anycase, I blew through this book in less than 24 hours. I couldn't put it down.

I would have given it 5 stars if the teen telling the story wasn't kind of annoying. She whined a lot and spent a lot of time sounding like an annoying teen. I guess the other thing that bugged me was that there were always drugs around and available. How did they get their hands on it so easily? Who paid for it? Is it really that easy to get drugs these days?

If you like this book, you should read Ellen Hopkin's Crank. I liked her account of her daughters addiction to crank a lot better than this book. It is way more gritty and raw.

[Brooke · Rating 2 out of 5]

Idk what I was thinking eating this a 5 star. Like honestly I don’t think this is that realistic and plus it’s not even based on a true story so... I just this girl was so Naïve but not at the same time. This was just so annoying. So literally smoked read twice, got drunk once and was like yeah coke and acid is the next step. Like what? But idk maybe this is how addiction happens, but it just seemed fast. Also the brother and parents like no. Honestly I think the 2 star is to generous but maybe this book will help someone?

[Kaitlyn Foreman · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was like Go Ask Alice but with a more annoying MC and more ‘OMG’s, cursing, less consequences, less realistic, and honestly just not as great all around.

I think I liked Go Asked Alice more, it took me longer to read the book and I honestly felt no obligation to finish the book the same way I did with Alice, but I still finished it (I have a thing where I have to finish my books unless they are downright horrible tho). It was ok, less enjoyable but still readable.

4/10, nothing special that will linger in my mind.

[Yeilyn Ramirez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was great, if you like young adult and enjoyed the book Go Ask Alice I recommend this book to you. It's about this girl age 16 years old in high school and had started drinking with her friend Lauren at a party, then smoking pot, then ecstasy, the doing coke, then doing meth because she felt in control, pretty, confident, happy, and experience all these feelings. Until one day ends up in rehab. As soon as she comes out of rehab, she dies of an accidental overdose 5 days later.