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Allison wants to live life to the full. By going to university, she leaves behind her boyfriend, her mother and the guy who tried to rape her. She throws herself into drugs, sex and study. But student life gets very complicated and home keeps calling her back. An awful lot can happen in three years.
“Anyone who has been at university will relate to the experiences here – isolation, friendship, sex, loyalty, heartbreak, happiness, despair. The book is full of honesty and insight, and you never know until the very end who is going to make it and who is going to fall by the wayside.” - Melvin Burgess
“Tense, honest and pacy – exactly the things you'd expect from a David Belbin novel. I couldn't put it down.” - Nicola Monaghan
“Anyone who has been at university will relate to the experiences here – isolation, friendship, sex, loyalty, heartbreak, happiness, despair. The book is full of honesty and insight, and you never know until the very end who is going to make it and who is going to fall by the wayside.” - Melvin Burgess
“Tense, honest and pacy – exactly the things you'd expect from a David Belbin novel. I couldn't put it down.” - Nicola Monaghan
160 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2012
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David Belbin
67 books21 followersBelbin's work is known for breaking boundaries and dealing responsibly with difficult social issues that affect teenagers. He first attained success with a number of books for Scholastic's Point Crime series.
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June 17, 2013
I don't even know how to start this review I guess I would start by being honest. I didn't like this one at all. It had me all kinds of confused and wondering what the hell is going on here. After reading the blurb and finding not one review about the book(that should had been my clue)I went ahead and read it and now I wish I can go back in time and take it back. I'm not trying to take anything away from the author but on this one it was a miss.
The main character of the book is a girl named Alison is supposed to be somebody that her mom,dad and friends are scared to talk to. And she has the boyfriend not boyfriend Mark who she wants to have sex because she has known him for a while and feels she can trust him. She is also going to college and yeah lets throw in a almost rape scene. Then lets give it some characters that are beyond undeveloped some drugs and sex her parents and then 2 deaths the end.
As a reader I never understood why everybody was so afraid to talk to her and what friends the girl didn't have any outside of Mark and their friendship was never really explained. I never got her need to have sex especially after she has it for the 1st time. And what was the thing with the drug usage? Everybody in the book did some type of drug with even thinking twice.
As far as her parents go she never has one conversation with her mom which i find that hard to believe they lived in the same house and that was her mom. According to the book they may live in the same house but they never ever run into each other! Oh yes lets not forget her dad (think this is the reason behind the "darkness"& drugs)book probably should had explored this relationship better seeing how it was the only parent she had interactions with.
The relationship with Mark was beyond undeveloped never even explained how the meet for the first time. And as a reader are we rooting for them to be together. What makes him so special? At one point in time the book states she keeps him grounded but how if we have no insight into his life and why he would need to be grounded.
And then at one point the books gives us other characters and at one point i am honestly lost and confused on who the hell should be talking. Her relationship with Adain actually sparked a little interest for me and then the spark died. Never understood how even in their friendship it was weird he never really affection towards her at all after they sorta broke off the relationship.
Oh and then the situation with her mother being sick I mean what was that? I wanted to feel something at that moment but I can't feel something for a character that we are never really informed on. At one point in time they don't even mention her mom. This would have been a perfect time for her and father to really start to heal. But nope didn't happen at all.
Like I stated before I'm really not trying to talk anything away from the author but this book was not good at all and then it was super short and cost 3.67. I wanted to love it heck i even wanted to just like the bloody thing but that was not going to happen. I could say so much more but I'm tired.
The main character of the book is a girl named Alison is supposed to be somebody that her mom,dad and friends are scared to talk to. And she has the boyfriend not boyfriend Mark who she wants to have sex because she has known him for a while and feels she can trust him. She is also going to college and yeah lets throw in a almost rape scene. Then lets give it some characters that are beyond undeveloped some drugs and sex her parents and then 2 deaths the end.
As a reader I never understood why everybody was so afraid to talk to her and what friends the girl didn't have any outside of Mark and their friendship was never really explained. I never got her need to have sex especially after she has it for the 1st time. And what was the thing with the drug usage? Everybody in the book did some type of drug with even thinking twice.
As far as her parents go she never has one conversation with her mom which i find that hard to believe they lived in the same house and that was her mom. According to the book they may live in the same house but they never ever run into each other! Oh yes lets not forget her dad (think this is the reason behind the "darkness"& drugs)book probably should had explored this relationship better seeing how it was the only parent she had interactions with.
The relationship with Mark was beyond undeveloped never even explained how the meet for the first time. And as a reader are we rooting for them to be together. What makes him so special? At one point in time the book states she keeps him grounded but how if we have no insight into his life and why he would need to be grounded.
And then at one point the books gives us other characters and at one point i am honestly lost and confused on who the hell should be talking. Her relationship with Adain actually sparked a little interest for me and then the spark died. Never understood how even in their friendship it was weird he never really affection towards her at all after they sorta broke off the relationship.
Oh and then the situation with her mother being sick I mean what was that? I wanted to feel something at that moment but I can't feel something for a character that we are never really informed on. At one point in time they don't even mention her mom. This would have been a perfect time for her and father to really start to heal. But nope didn't happen at all.
Like I stated before I'm really not trying to talk anything away from the author but this book was not good at all and then it was super short and cost 3.67. I wanted to love it heck i even wanted to just like the bloody thing but that was not going to happen. I could say so much more but I'm tired.
December 2, 2014
THE BOOK DOESNT EVEN END. U DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END WTF.
August 13, 2025
Tried a new genre, coming of age and I must say I disliked it to the core. The writing was a bit bland and the MC was very sufferable. I dreaded DNF'ing a book hence I pushed through
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