A review by gavinneedham
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

Don’t read this book, it is not good. This is 200 pages of conservative puritanical backlash to the hippies. How they ever got away with marketing this as nonfiction I don’t know. The plot is so badly devised and unrealistic. The narrator is one of the most annoying in fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Fatphobia, Drug use, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Homophobia, Ableism, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Read at your own risk. Problematic in every sense of the word.