Clean: The London Collection

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Unable to get out my bed and too uncomfortable to sleep reading a book seemed like the most sensible way to pass the time. I've found many novels with trans characters where the story is so focused on their coming out and / or transition. I’d also recommend this novel for fans of Junk by Melvin Burgess and the Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison.

Es ist auch schön, dass Dawson eine Besserungsgeschichte erzählt, uns nicht ewig in Lexis Sumpf mitzieht, sondern aufzeigt, dass es da einen Weg raus gibt.Knyga, kaip galima suprasti iš Melvin Burgess „Heroino“ paminėjimo ant viršelio, yra susijusi su narkotikų tema. My favorite was Kendall, a trans character battling anorexia, how she approached both of those elements of herself was one of the best things that I have read in a very long time. This is a YA novel about a teenage girl named Lexi, who comes from an incredibly rich and privileged background.

I was curious to see how a YA novel would handle the drug use, whether the author would shy away but in fact quite the opposite was true.Es hat mich teilweise geschockt, es hat mich wütend gemacht, hat mich Dinge hinterfragen lassen und mir in einigen Punkten definitiv die Augen geöffnet. As the novel progressed, and I learned more about her character and why she acts in certain ways, I grew fonder of her. What I mean by that is, I couldn’t connect with any of the characters – Lexi, the main protagonist, if I remember correctly is seventeen years old, but she came across and much younger and this really bugged me as it made it hard for me to believe in her character.

The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. Dubbed as “Gossip Girl meets Girl Interrupted”, Clean is a biting and hard-hitting YA novel centring around Lexi, a spoiled hotel heiress with a serious drug problem, who is checked into a luxury island rehab facility by her brother after she overdoses on heroin.If you’re not familiar with what becoming clean entails, then be prepared for the shocking and upsetting reality. Zum Beispiel ist Kendall relativ gut ausgearbeitet – und natürlich eine unglaublich wichtige Repräsentation, gerade, da Juno Dawson selbst trans ist –, wenn auch die Behandlung ihrer Krankheit in der Klinik mir zuweilen etwas suspekt war. I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Besonders der ehrliche und direkte Schreibstil hat gerade diese ersten Tage unglaublich realistisch dargestellt. Meistens bedarf es ja doch eines gravierenden Vorfalls, bis sich die Menschen bewusst werden, was da gerade mit ihnen passiert.