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A review by willwork4airfare
Clean by Amy Reed
5.0
Clean is a story about five kids from completely different background who are all thrown into the same rehab group together.
From the beginning, Reed shows her talent for different writing styles and different perspectives. From introspective Eva to sassy, hard-headed Kelly, Reed does an excellent job at showing all of the characters' growth and changing emotions. The chapters are told from different perspectives: some as monologues, some as essays, some as transcribed group sessions, so the reader is given information from multiple sources both biased and unbiased.
Reed paints a compelling picture of life in a rehabilitation facility and puts the characters through believable ordeals to test their characters and help the reader identify with one or all of them. Interesting throughout, Reed has you rooting for their recovery and sympathetic with all of their motives. You cry with them, you laugh with them, you rejoice in their growth and their breakthroughs. The characters' individuality comes out through their unique writing styles and their backgrounds are given in short, inter-spliced passages so they refrain from getting repetitive or boring. Even their families, in their brief appearances, are given their own unique dynamics and their own voices. In the end, it's up to you to determine how each character is going to succeed in life outside of rehab and whether they'll remain clean.
From the beginning, Reed shows her talent for different writing styles and different perspectives. From introspective Eva to sassy, hard-headed Kelly, Reed does an excellent job at showing all of the characters' growth and changing emotions. The chapters are told from different perspectives: some as monologues, some as essays, some as transcribed group sessions, so the reader is given information from multiple sources both biased and unbiased.
Reed paints a compelling picture of life in a rehabilitation facility and puts the characters through believable ordeals to test their characters and help the reader identify with one or all of them. Interesting throughout, Reed has you rooting for their recovery and sympathetic with all of their motives. You cry with them, you laugh with them, you rejoice in their growth and their breakthroughs. The characters' individuality comes out through their unique writing styles and their backgrounds are given in short, inter-spliced passages so they refrain from getting repetitive or boring. Even their families, in their brief appearances, are given their own unique dynamics and their own voices. In the end, it's up to you to determine how each character is going to succeed in life outside of rehab and whether they'll remain clean.