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The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach
3 reviews
florapants84's review
3.5
I remember an older cousin pressuring me to watch "Cruel Intentions" with her at a sleepover, and then just drifting off to sleep after it was over. She was a fan and had seen the film countless times. I, on the other hand, didn't get a wink of sleep that night. I was traumatized. Rich kids had issues too, and they seemed way more complicated than the ones I was juggling at the age of 14. I wouldn't have traded places with them for all the money in the world then or now. This book had a similar effect on me. It's dark, gritty and an utterly unknown area of expertise for me. However, although the author and others mentioned in the book were a good 5 years or so younger than me, I could totally relate to the painful adolescent emotions coursing through their veins in the early 2000s and beyond. I was there; I lived it. I wouldn't go back to those teenage years for all the tea in China. While this is by no means a perfect book, I did appreciate Leach's journalism experience in creating a narrative non-fiction tribute to her childhood best friend.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Confinement, Death, and Death of parent
seyfert's review
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Grief
Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Self harm, and Alcohol
allisonbrooke's review
4.0
Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Drug abuse, Medical content, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts