Heroine

A very engrossing and empathetic look at addiction. Mickey had a strong voice and even as you wanted her to make different decisions, you never fail to understand why she makes the ones she does. McGinnis is one of my favorite YA authors, and is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors in general. 4/5 stars.

Like all McGinnis I've read so far, this is incredibly intense. I'm from an addiction family, so I maybe was more personally invested than some will be, but I was compelled to keep following Mickey's descent. There's no greater context about her privilege helping her out of addiction, or some lack of consequences. Also, this book is tunnel-vision on Mickey, without much description of secondary characters or event descriptions, like the accident, which is a pattern I'm seeing in McGinnis's work. I will definitely book talk this and think it will find an audience. The book has a warning in the front and addiction resources at the end, but the audiobook has neither, though the warning should have stayed.