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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
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Das Buch hat mich bereits als Jugendliche vom Drogen ausprobieren abgehalten und nimmt mich jetzt als Mutter nochmals ganz anders mit.
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
dark
emotional
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
This is like the German version of Go Ask Alice except that it is actually real. Christiane is just 13 or 14 years old when she starts getting into drugs, but there are societal factors at play here. Boredom, nothing for the kids to do . . . it's the 1970s . . . political upheaval. And so on. Small wonder that a bunch of young kids start getting addicted to heroin when it is relatively cheap and plentiful. Some reviews find Christiane's reasoning to be very shallow - but she is a teenager so that tracks. Many teenagers have no idea what the hell they are doing and they follow what everyone else is doing. Her going back to Detlef even when she was trying to recover and kick the habit is also something that feels pretty realistic to me.
However, it does feel incredibly repetitive when she gets to the point where she tries multiple times to get off heroin. I know that this is a true experience for many (heroin is notorious for needing multiple rehab attempts to stay off it, according to many reports) but I felt it could have been truncated a little bit.
However, it does feel incredibly repetitive when she gets to the point where she tries multiple times to get off heroin. I know that this is a true experience for many (heroin is notorious for needing multiple rehab attempts to stay off it, according to many reports) but I felt it could have been truncated a little bit.