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Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
5.0
TW&CW// Opioid use/addiction, Divorce, infertility, descriptions of blood/surgery, mentions of overdose.
Wow, do you ever read certain books and they leave you completely speechless unable to collect your thoughts? This was that book for me.
When I first started reading this I was surprised that it was a YA covering such a heavy but relevant topic, So often I feel we have this belief that only adults have addictions to opioids. We either don’t want to or don’t believe at all that a teenager can experience addiction so heavily.
Mickey gets into a car accident which leaves her on a downward spiral of addiction to opioids, This story was such a hard one to read not only because it covers the topics of addiction in its raw reality but because it sheds light and a scary reality of how easily and quickly it is to not only become addicted to opioids but obtain them as well.
While reading I couldn’t help but sympathize and feel Mickey's pain. From having everything friends, softball being her life, and a scholarship to losing it all in a single accident. At the ending of the book the question of why her and not someone else? and why she became addicted in the first place is asked, and I don't know if that question can be answered for anyone why some people and not others?
I adored this book and the ways addiction not only affect the person who is going through it but their entire way of life and how they live.
Wow, do you ever read certain books and they leave you completely speechless unable to collect your thoughts? This was that book for me.
When I first started reading this I was surprised that it was a YA covering such a heavy but relevant topic, So often I feel we have this belief that only adults have addictions to opioids. We either don’t want to or don’t believe at all that a teenager can experience addiction so heavily.
Mickey gets into a car accident which leaves her on a downward spiral of addiction to opioids, This story was such a hard one to read not only because it covers the topics of addiction in its raw reality but because it sheds light and a scary reality of how easily and quickly it is to not only become addicted to opioids but obtain them as well.
While reading I couldn’t help but sympathize and feel Mickey's pain. From having everything friends, softball being her life, and a scholarship to losing it all in a single accident. At the ending of the book the question of why her and not someone else? and why she became addicted in the first place is asked, and I don't know if that question can be answered for anyone why some people and not others?
I adored this book and the ways addiction not only affect the person who is going through it but their entire way of life and how they live.