Sophie’s Reviews > Junk: The classic YA novel reissued for a new generation > Status Update

This book could be peddled as an anti-drug advertisement, if only for the reason that if I even thought taking smack would group me in with someone as cringe-worthy as Gemma I never woulda touched the stuff

Am a bit irked by Gemma's eyes being likened to 'marbles' after she's smoked H - considering smack pins the pupils. Have also never known H to be inhaled the way it's described (straight into open mouth, rather than via a straw / 'tooter'). Tried this method after reading Burgess' description of it to no success.

Enjoying this so far - though some of the characters are irritating and the 'anti-establishment', 'you are not free' tirades are trite and cliche. 'Spose you need to judge YA fiction with a lower expectation than you would adult literature though

Gemma is a complete beg