It's hard to find the right words to to describe what reading Amy Reed's YA novel, Beautiful, was like. It's an incredibly intense story about a thirteen-year-old girl named Cassie, who makes the decision to sit with wild and troubled outsider Alex, at lunch. From that moment on, the life Cassie had slowly unravels and twists and turns into something much darker, something much less certain from there.

A life–as the back of the book says–of, "drugs, sex, secrets and cruelty."





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