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millerralice's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Vomit
Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Minor: Antisemitism
itsmeimkaty's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use
Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Sexual assault, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Toxic friendship
elllav's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Self harm, Violence, and Alcohol
Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Vomit
veskumelooni's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use
Minor: Vomit
enmcurrie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
What I love about this book is just how raw and real it feels. It doesn’t cut corners it doesn’t try to belittle anything, it’s straight to the point in its handling of addiction and recovery and was really eye-opening to me. It’s so easy to be judgemental of addicts but they have so many more layers to them, and that’s conveyed clearly in this book. The plot is dark, but Dawson gives Lexi such a great dry sense of humour to counteract just how dark and heavy the storyline is, which I appreciated. The characters weren’t meant to be perfect, they say and do offensive things. They’re heavily flawed. But they don’t feel curated. The characters feel real, like you’re reading about the lives of random people you pass by on the street.
Lexi’s recovery felt real too, it wasn’t one dimensional and simple. It wasn’t cliche. The same goes for the other characters in rehab recovering.
The only issue I could comment about with the book would be the way it dealt with anorexia and overeating. I didn’t really like the favour and better treatment there was towards anorexia, but there was good representation there. Also, the ending felt a bit out of place and didn’t make all too much sense to me:
The ending was satisfying though and overall I really enjoyed this book. It tackled a lot of issues and it did it well. The pace was good. I would definitely recommend.
Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Eating disorder, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Alcohol
Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts
thenovelbookshelf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Clean is an easy read, which seems fast but is more medium paced, and may discomfort the reader or at least make the reader question what's really important in your life.
I don't know if it was the writing, the characters or the story that got me hooked, no pun intended, but I breezed through this book in a day, all the while alternating between yelling a Lexi to grow up, and to realise she can do better in friends/boyfriends.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Confinement and Self harm
Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Grief
sorcha's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Excrement, Vomit, and Grief
Minor: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Car accident