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A total snooze fest. My goodness how it just dragged out, the end was so anticlimactic. Two stars is all this one can muster. My review is not a mini-synopsis, all I can offer is that it was a dud and feel that your time may be better spent elsewhere. The author does the internal dialogue of a teenage girl so badly I cringed. Entire chapters that added nothing of value to the story but were some attempt at building the non-suspense. I literally went back and read all the editorial reviews for this and laughed at how absolutely off mark they are. Page turner- yeah I started turning pages quickly when I realized that taking my time to absorb this was a serious waste of hours of my life. Intolerably suspensful ? No way, when I read the end I was just glad to have it over and done. The author decided to have the undercurrent of secrets and teenage angst play out through the act of self mutilation (cutting), but just botched it. She introduces this terrible pent up anxiety and then just plays it off as blah blah blah my parents are so lame, DE- NI- AL, they just don't "get me". Its bad. The main character mentions his RAGE that you never ever see. The books just goes on about rage and anger but it's not simmering or white hot, maybe lukewarm. And then randomly switches the point of storytelling to have the father question the reader (me/you) about how we would feel. Language: F-bombs, c*ck, b*tch. And not really for any good effect. The sex, while very abbreviated was so so not needed just because it was laughable. "We held each other like young lovers, but lovers whose bones held marrow-deep sorrow. We moved slowly as we explored, touched, tasted, as if not only our bodies but the air itself was fragile and a misstep would shatter all. I entered her, went deep, and knew that joy could be pain too".