Lucy in the Sky

Apr 29, 2013 Emilia St. rated it 3 of 5 stars

Go Ask Alice can be considered a classic young adult novel. The main character in this book goes through struggles of addictions to drugs and the problems that can come with these addictions. Go Ask Alice I based in the 70’s, which was very well known as the time of hippies and teens running away from home. Lucy in the Sky, is a modern day Go Ask Alice. The main character, whose name we do not know throughout the story, is going to be a junior in high school. She writes in her diary explaining...more Go Ask Alice can be considered a classic young adult novel. The main character in this book goes through struggles of addictions to drugs and the problems that can come with these addictions. Go Ask Alice I based in the 70’s, which was very well known as the time of hippies and teens running away from home. Lucy in the Sky, is a modern day Go Ask Alice. The main character, whose name we do not know throughout the story, is going to be a junior in high school. She writes in her diary explaining that she hopes to have a good year in school and that she will hopefully make some friends, something she does not have right now. Over the summer our main character hangs out with her older brother who introduces her to some of his friends and she makes a great group of peers that she thinks are the best. She cannot wait to start school with some best friends. Only, by the end of the summer, our main character has herself involved in some drinking and drugs. The entire story fits almost exactly with Go Ask Alice. The main character vows to never do drugs again and to clean up her act, only to fall right back into the same pattern. The ending of the story, hopefully not a spoiler alert, ends the same way as Go Ask Alice.
Taking a classic and turning it modern can be difficult, but this story is very understandable for most teens. The group of friend’s main means of communication is through text messaging. This is obviously something that today’s teenage generation is doing constantly. Drama happens throughout the book making it relatable to the teenage audience. The author, whoever it may be, tends to drag some areas in the story on and after a while I got really bored of it. This could be because I had a feeling of what was going to happen already. Either way, a younger crowd may get more out of this book than I did. Maybe because Go Ask Alice was so shocking, I was expecting more.
This is not a book I would teach in a classroom setting. I feel like some of the occurrences in the story are a little too close to home and I would not want students to get any ideas. At the same time though, I story is also kind of all over the place. There is a possibility that I am partial to Go Ask Alice because I did read that book at a young age. I think that I felt that a story based in a different era was better to read because I could only imagine how things may have went. In Lucy in the Sky, the main character begins to become to cliché. Overall, I give this book 2 ½ stars out of five. I would give it to a student that was interested in a memoir type of novel.
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Apr 06, 2013 Andria rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen-fiction

Teenage me gives it 5 stars, adult me is a bit more critical so we're compromising with 3.

This is, obviously, an updated reworking of Go Ask Alice and the general plot is the same: good girl falls in with the wrong crowd, and goes from straight-edge virgin to junkie slut in the course of one school year. The cover blurb says it all: "One party. One taste. No turning back."

Curious teenage girls who want to vicariously experience drug use without consequences will eat this up. And our anonymous n...more

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Mar 13, 2013 Imani Steele rated it 4 of 5 stars

Being familiar with the well known Crank book series, by Ellen Hopkins, I often look for books that I can relate to, a book that discusses the problems that we, teenagers, might encounter, at some point during our young adult life; something that doesn’t sugarcoat the realities of the world and talks about the dangers, in which we might face, while living in the modern world. Teens want to be able to read books that they can relate to. The novel, Lucy in the Sky, appealed to me because it’s a ge...more Being familiar with the well known Crank book series, by Ellen Hopkins, I often look for books that I can relate to, a book that discusses the problems that we, teenagers, might encounter, at some point during our young adult life; something that doesn’t sugarcoat the realities of the world and talks about the dangers, in which we might face, while living in the modern world. Teens want to be able to read books that they can relate to. The novel, Lucy in the Sky, appealed to me because it’s a genuine story that talks about things, in which I can relate to. Also, the story helps us face reality of what can actually happen to a teen. Lucy in the Sky, by Anonymous, is a fictional book, based off of real life situations, for teenagers to read.
The unique thing about the book is that there is some sort of mystery behind it. The story itself is not necessarily a mystery, but there are certain elements that are a mystery to us, in this story. For instance, the author and the main character are mysteries to us. The author’s name is “’Anonymous” and we never learn the name of the main character, we just have to refer her as the sixteen year old girl, whose life changes dramatically, throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, the girl is what we would call a “good girl”. She’s her parents “perfect angel” and she does very well in school, but she hardly has a social life. One day she decides to go to a yoga class her older brother, and there she meets a handsome, teenage boy, named Ross. She starts hanging out with Ross and he introduces her to a whole new world. He also introduces her to his group of friends, who turn out to be bad influences on her. She starts doing things she never imagined herself doing and she doesn’t know how to stop. It’s all fun and games, until one day she finds herself in a dark place, where she doesn’t know how to come back from.
Even though this book is a fictional novel, it’s based off of real life situations, which makes this a genuine story. In the novel, you see a how an innocent teenage girl transforms into an addicted rebel. What I like about this book is, it seems as if the anonymous author didn’t have any limits, when it came to writing it. The plot is very detailed about the situations that occur in the story. It’s important for the author to write this way because it wouldn’t make sense to talk about a controversial topic, but to sugarcoat the realities revolving around it. If you’re going to talk about things such as drugs, violence, or sex you have to be able to be real with your audience and come from a genuine perspective.
If you like any of the books in the Crank series, by Ellen Hopkins, or if you’ve read Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous, then you’ll love this book. I recommend this book for people who are 14 years or older. Some of the content of this book might be too graphic or too mature for viewers younger than that age. I believe people that are mature enough for this story should read it because it can also be a moral lesson for them, especially the young adults, who might put themselves in the same situation as the main character.

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Mar 09, 2013 Cassie rated it 5 of 5 stars

I couldn't put this book down from the moment I bought it. I read 'Go Ask Alice', so I knew what this book would be like.

Going throughout this 16 year old girls life for a year. She starts out like any normal 16 year old, but she is missing something. She wants friends who she can call her "FRIENDS" people to hang out with and a best friend to laugh with and gossip with.

At her first party with her brother and a new boy she has met name Ross, she meets Lauren and this is where everything starts...more

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Jan 19, 2013 Juliana Encinas rated it 3 of 5 stars

“Lucy in the Sky” by Anonymous was written in the same style as “Go Ask Alice”, a fictional story supposedly based off of the diaries of a teenage drug addict whose life spiraled out of control and ended with death. The story is about a sixteen year old girl with a loving family and a good start in life. She doesn’t have any real friends except for her brother, Cam, until they meet Ross in yoga class. Ross introduces her into a whole new world. She is vulnerable and gets influenced very easily,...more “Lucy in the Sky” by Anonymous was written in the same style as “Go Ask Alice”, a fictional story supposedly based off of the diaries of a teenage drug addict whose life spiraled out of control and ended with death. The story is about a sixteen year old girl with a loving family and a good start in life. She doesn’t have any real friends except for her brother, Cam, until they meet Ross in yoga class. Ross introduces her into a whole new world. She is vulnerable and gets influenced very easily, not wanting to be “left out” of anything. It all begins when she joins Ross at the beach to watch him surf and it goes downhill quickly from there.
They go back to his truck, leaving the beach and he pulls out a small pipe filled with marijuana. He takes a hit and passes it to her. They begin smoking on the regular together when he takes her to a party at his friend Blake’s house. Blake has an instant attraction to her; he’s 20 years old, but that only further entrances her. At the party, she meets a girl named Lauren and Ross’s boyfriend, Ian, Lauren introduces her to drinking, which also soon becomes a regular thing. She sees Blake snort a line of cocaine. It all seems so “cool” to her, so exotically attracting. She wants to fit in, she wants them to like her. She continues to follow them, down the downward spiral of drug addiction, tearing her family apart along the way.
Her personality changes, she becomes mean. She used to tell her brother everything, then begins to lie to feed her addiction. She used to be a wallflower, always alone or in her brother’s shadow. Then, she sits the elite. To everyone else they look flawless, walking perfection, but really they’re drug addicts wearing designer labeled clothes. She loses her innocence and almost gets raped and continues to trust those who put her in that situation, She ultimately gives up on her grades and everything that used to matter to her. She stops working about tomorrow and only today’s high.
Why? Because she saw Lauren and she was everything she hoped to be. She was beautiful, confident, and wealthy. She made her failures of choices look like Grammy awards, something to be proud of. She wanted to feel like Lauren did, she wanted to feel GOOD and the only way she knew how to do this, was drugs. They became her usual, her regular, everyday feeling and without them, she was miserable.
She lost herself in the crowd, not realizing that just because everyone else is doing it, does not mean that you should took. the book tells the sad truth of what happens every day, that the monster of addiction can get to absolutely anyone. It can even get to those you idolize. the lesson is to be your own person and learn from other’s mistakes, not follow them to their death.(less)

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Jan 11, 2013 Connie Peters rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Many reviews have compared this book to Go Ask Alice which is why I wanted to read this story as quickly as possible! I have 11 copies of GAA in my high school library and they are almost always out. It is so popular that I usually have to replace a couple of "lost" copies each year. So I ordered 4 copies of Lucy in the Sky without having read the book itself.

I actually did like the story. I agree with others that Lucy's narrative glorified drugs somewhat and I found it a little unbelievable tha...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Lauren Grace rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In the tradition of "Go Ask Alice", this anonymous diary depicts a teenage girl's descent into a life of partying and drug use. The diarist (I don't want to call her Lucy, because that's probably not her name) lives affluently in Southern California with her parents and her older brother. She's young and naive in the beginning of the diary, cringing away when she's offered pot because OMG, pot is so BAD! But she caves pretty quickly, quickly making new friends and falling into a partying lifesty...more In the tradition of "Go Ask Alice", this anonymous diary depicts a teenage girl's descent into a life of partying and drug use. The diarist (I don't want to call her Lucy, because that's probably not her name) lives affluently in Southern California with her parents and her older brother. She's young and naive in the beginning of the diary, cringing away when she's offered pot because OMG, pot is so BAD! But she caves pretty quickly, quickly making new friends and falling into a partying lifestyle.

As with "Go Ask Alice", there were a lot of elements to this that were totally unbelievable. The capitalization to show enthusiasm or emphasis and use of OMG and LOL were just too much for me. It was apparent that this "anonymous" author wanted to come across as an enthusiastic teenage girl and apparently enthusiastic teenage girls use capitals and abbreviations when writing in their diaries.

There were a lot of aspects to this that I really liked, though. The low self-esteem of the diarist is apparent through-out. She often talks about everyone around her as being so beautiful and smart and fantastic, and she leaves herself out of all of those categories. Except for when she is on drugs, and she finally has a taste of what it's like to feel beautiful and confident. She loves feeling in control, and that's what drugs give her. I found that pretty accurate.

The peer pressure was spot on, too. There were only a few occasions of people telling her to "c'mon" and "just do it," and those were minimal because she always quickly agreed. She wanted to do it, and it was because she didn't want to be left out. She repeatedly says that she never wants to be left out again, and I think that's the form peer pressure takes more often than "c'mon, do it, you'll like it." Her peers weren't directly pressuring her, but there was still the pressure to do it just because they were. Her friends wouldn't care if she wasn't on the same drugs as them, they would still have a good time, but she cared because she was missing out.

The lack of character development was also nice, because this is a diary. No one writing a diary goes into lengthy detail about someone or takes the time to develop the characters for the sake of their diary. No. I liked that aspect -- it made it seem more believable. To her, she's the only one reading this diary and she already knows everybody in her life. She doesn't need to hash out who they are all over again.

The diarist herself was a pretty believable character. I could relate to a lot of her emotions and thoughts, especially when she came to the realization that she almost always needed to be drunk or high in order to have a good time. I've come to that conclusion multiple times and she reacted pretty much that same way I did: oh my god, what kind of person have I become?

One aspect of this that I really, really liked was how her addiction was portrayed. She wasn't the classic drug addict that spiraled out of control and dropped out of school and completely neglected her family and did anything just so she could get a fix. She didn't become the stereotypical cocaine/meth/heroine addict. She was a teenage girl who would recreationally use with her friends or when she was at a party. She never snorted lines when she was by herself. She never really did any drug use when she was by herself, and she never talked about she needed a fix so badly. I wouldn't even call her an addict, I'd say she was just dependent, heading down the road of addiction. She was doing what a lot of teenagers do: drinking and doing drugs at parties.

I found that really refreshing. Call me crazy, but I liked how she glorified drug use. It made it all the more believable. No one who is regularly using drugs and enjoying it is going to talk about how no one should use them. She's going to talk about how great it is, and how much she loves it, especially because this is her own diary. She's not writing for the sake of anybody besides herself.

There is an anti-drug sentiment, of course. She goes through multiple periods of swearing of drugs completely, only to start using again. I think her longest stretch was about a month. She always relapsed, and I'm guessing that was supposed to be the message that drugs are bad and if you start using you will never, ever be able to stop.

I didn't actually believe that this book to be the diary of an anonymous teen, but it works. It's believable enough.
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Oct 17, 2012 Zoey Becker rated it 4 of 5 stars

Following the style of 'Go Ask Alice' and written in the format of a diary by an anonymous 16 year old girl, this book is a edgy and haunting read. It describes a year in the life of "Lucy", a regular teenager who soon spirals into a life of drugs and depression. During the course of her diary, she makes new friends and explores a life she never thought she would be apart of. While it all seems new and exciting at first, just one taste is enough for "Lucy" to become the addict she never thought...more

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Oct 04, 2012 Samantha Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. 1) This book was written in the format of a journal by a 16 year old girl. She's an average girl in high school with not too many friends. Over the summer though, she meets a few people who she becomes close with and hangs out with them regularly. She ends up drinking with them and doing drugs. It gets to the point that she dies of a heroin/meth overdose. This "journal" is what she "left behind."
2) I gave this book four stars. I really liked the overall concept of it, but in parts you could tell...more

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Sep 15, 2012 BAYA Librarian rated it 3 of 5 stars

Harking back to Go Ask Alice, this is an edgy and heart-breaking tale of teen addiction written by an anonymous diarist. The narrative starts on a 16th birthday and concludes less than one year later in tremendous loss. “Lucy” descends into a pit of self-destruction that is painful to endure; readers may wince at each mistake she makes and wish “Lucy” an escape from the devastation she has wrought. Juggling hope and dread, happiness and despair, confidence and self-loathing, the diary conveys th...more Harking back to Go Ask Alice, this is an edgy and heart-breaking tale of teen addiction written by an anonymous diarist. The narrative starts on a 16th birthday and concludes less than one year later in tremendous loss. “Lucy” descends into a pit of self-destruction that is painful to endure; readers may wince at each mistake she makes and wish “Lucy” an escape from the devastation she has wrought. Juggling hope and dread, happiness and despair, confidence and self-loathing, the diary conveys the immensity of “Lucy’s” addiction. Some readers may be skeptical of her expressway into addiction, from a single puff of pot to hardcore drug use within a few months (the message of avoiding “gateway” drugs is evident), but the total package is a captivating read and a must-have title for a collection featuring hard-hitting books dealing with peer pressure and dysfunction.

Born on the Fourth of July, the diarist, “Lucy” lives in affluent southern California with her professional parents and popular older brother, Cam, who gave her the journal as a present. She describes her family as supportive and nurturing; “Lucy” has little to gripe about in her entries, focusing instead on boys, yoga, and school, and the writing style conveys an immediate and compelling sense of authenticity and currency.

Innocent of any deviant behavior, “Lucy” is appalled when a boy she likes offers marijuana, but she quickly accepts that getting high is her entrée into a world of parties, friends, and fun that had always been out of her reach. “Lucy” has never had a best friend or boyfriend and secretly covets her brother’s ease in social situations, but soon realizes that he is not as innocent as she once believed. Comparing herself to other teens, “Lucy” comes up inadequate in every way – not smart, pretty, or cool enough – but finds that drinking and drugs impart a facade of glamor and sexiness she can internalize and play up, using her new found sex appeal and attitude to feel popular and powerful.

The adults in this story are mostly involved in the entertainment business; big parties and extravagances are not uncommon and their kids have become accustomed to a great deal of privilege and fast living. “Lucy” sees the hypocrisy of social drinking, and faults her parents for drinking wine with dinner or cocktails while on vacation, and cannot understand the difference between legal, modest consumption and abuse.

Capturing so effectively the teen voice in diary form, the anonymous writer has penned a tale of a relentless, vicious cycle of drug abuse and denial from onset to finality. The bleak ending leaves no room for positive messaging about recovery, which readers may disparage, but the authenticity of the voice and realism of the drug addicts’ experiences convey a deep insight into the plight of teen addicts. Recommended for older teens due to mature concepts (drugs, sex, and violence) and strong language.

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Aug 16, 2012 Sandy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya, favorite, library

Ahhhhhh, this book had it all. It had drugs, it had alcohol, it had sex and it had me hooked within a few pages. Welcome to the world of sixteen year old Lucy. Her once “boring” life has suddenly changed and now she is sitting on top of the world, or at least she feels she is sitting on top of the world because of the drugs and/or the booze which are now consuming her life. In diary journal format, her life is told in such vivid format, you have to love the honestly and emotions that she puts in...more

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Jun 13, 2012 Ali Schellhorn rated it 5 of 5 stars

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May 12, 2012 Melanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Apr 22, 2012 Donna (Jaevenstar) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-book-challenge, ya

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Sep 15, 2012 Diane rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: drugs, death, young-adult, diary

One of the most popular books about teens and drugs in the 60’s, 70s, and even now is Go Ask Alice. I remember reading it in high school and really loved it. In an effort to appeal to teens of the 21st C, along comes Lucy in the Sky. We never know her name, but through her journal we follow the chronicle of her descent into drug abuse. She’s 16, and the daughter of privilege. She’s not particularly popular, but when she starts hanging around some new kids at school – beautiful and handsome and...more

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Dec 23, 2012 Erin rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Reasons I didn't like this book:

1) The author seemed to glorify drug use. He or she made it seem like they wanted the readers to go out and try E and coke and go smoke pot and meth and shoot up heroin.

2)She NEVER seemed to learn. AA meetings, one DUI, and an almost rape wasn't enough to teach her to stay away from drugs, I guess. Even when she got clean towards the end, she fucks it up and dies!

3)There's little to no character development. She goes from cosmos to pot to coke to E to meth to hero...more

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Apr 20, 2012 Bundles of rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sent-to-me, own, review-copies, arcs

Title: Lucy in the Sky
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Age Group: 14 and up
Hardcover/Paperback: 288 pages
Source: Publisher
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Book Synopsis: A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal.
The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, l...more Title: Lucy in the Sky
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Age Group: 14 and up
Hardcover/Paperback: 288 pages
Source: Publisher
Buy This Book: B&N

Book Synopsis: A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal.
The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste—and liked it. Really liked it. Social drinking and drugging lead to more, faster, harder... She convinced herself that she was no different from anyone else who liked to party. But the evidence indicates otherwise: Soon she was she hanging out with an edgy crowd, blowing off school and everything she used to care about, all to find her next high. But what goes up must come down, and everything—from her first swig, to her last breath—is chronicled in the diary she left behind.

About the Author: Anonymous could be anyone you know.

Cover Art: I love the covers of the books Anonymous writes! They're so mysterious and just give away nothing about the book! The girl on the cover, I think, is supposed to be Lucy but, I didn't picture her like this! Oh well, I still love it!!

My First Thoughts...: This was an unsolicited book that was sent to me! When it came in the mail, I jumped for joy! I loved Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal! All I could do was go into the story with high expectations.

Story Line: Lucy is the good girl....or was. One day, when her and her brother Cam was going to their usual yoga class, Lucy spotted a boy looking at her. After class, the boy, whose name is Ross approached Lucy and asked her to go to the beach the next day! One thing led to the next, and Lucy was going to some party that Saturday! During the party, she started some things that will change her life forever. She started drinking…a lot...And smoking illegal substances…more than she should. She is doing all of this under the watch of her brother, who does not seem to care! Some brother he is…

After she gets into a daily routine of smoking pot and drinking cosmos, she meets some people who become her best friends. A girl named Lauren, a guy named Ian and a very attractive 20 year old named Blake. Apparently, Blake feels the same way about her, and in the middle of the night, texts her some very disturbing (although Lucy likes it) things. One day, after homecoming, Lucy was introduced to the substance of cocaine. She immediately becomes addicted, even though she vows to her brother that she is going to stop all the drinking and smoking. It all becomes too much for her one day and she is admitted into rehab. Will Lucy come out well again? Or will she be stuck in there because she needs alcohol and substances?

Overall Thoughts: A story filled with loss, and learning to cope with living her life without those horrible things to keep her going. This story reminded me a lot of Crank by Ellen Hopkins, and I loved that book! Anyone who is a fan of Ellen Hopkins needs to read this book!
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Mar 06, 2013 Leah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya, drugs-addiction

I'm conflicted about this book. It was certainly compelling reading as I read all of it in one day. I found it fascinating, but ultimately I feel like the use first person narration of the story hindered the story the author meant to tell. It certainly shows the slow slide into addiction, and yet, I feel that to some extent it glorified the drug use. The narrator spends a lot of time telling us how the drugs are wonderful, and we come to understand how this dependency affects her relationship wi...more

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Apr 19, 2013 Hana King rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Lucy in the Sky by Anonymous is an amazing and captivating book. It is written in a diary format, like Go Ask Alice, making it easy to read and understand in a chronological perspective, which I really liked. It also uses some slang terms and swear words, making it more believable as a 16 year old girl’s diary. I found that the plot was interesting and actually seemed like a real addict’s struggle with drugs. However, it does not hold back on details.

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Apr 08, 2013 Alysia Verhagen rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book is like the new "Go Ask Alice." I gave this book three stars because the main character, whose name is never actually revealed in the book, annoyed me so much. Also, as someone who has read countless real case studies and having studied drugs and deviance, it makes me realize that this book was just a scare tactic. Nothing more. I know that some stories may be just like the one described in the book, however, I hate to say, it unlikely that things escalated as quickly as they did with...more

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Nov 15, 2012 Rebecca rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: death-tragedy-suicide-murder, realistic-fiction, main-characters-who-irritate-me

2.5 stars. I didn't like the ending. I'm about half-way done with Go Ask Alice, and apparently it ends the same way. (view spoiler)

Okay. This is what bothered me the most. So I know that this is meant to be an anti-drug book, but I feel like it almost glorifies drug use. Basically, the unnamed main character who I shall call Lucy from this point on (because of the title) gets addicted to a bunch of drugs and loves it. She frequently talked about how...more

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Mar 12, 2013 Annee rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was pretty good and quick read but was not great. It was not really my type of book but it was pretty interesting to read about all the things we hear about happening but never really see (and don't necessarily want to see). Lucy was an interesting character that seemed very real as she did not think she was perfect and at first, felt bad for giving into her friend's peer pressure and she wanted to change her ways but it was easier for her to give in. I didn't really like the character...more

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Jan 19, 2013 Kristina Narkaj rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you believe this journal/diary is real, then re-read it. You can obviously tell its a propaganda against drugs. Although, in my perspective it makes you think the drugs are fun and goos and make you wanna feel what she's feeling. Of course i didn't, this book was an excellent read, especially if you're into books with people who take a downward spiral into drugs. This book is much like go ask alice yet with more drugs and have read go ask alice, reading this book foreshadowed the death to "lu...more

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Jun 20, 2012 Lori rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult-fiction

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Jan 06, 2013 Natalie rated it 4 of 5 stars

When I first started reading this book, I couldn't stand it. The juvenile language and writing style grinded my gears to no end. I thought many times about putting it down and never picking it back up again, but as I read on, I realized that that's exactly what the main character was: juvenile. As a reader, I saw her grow and I saw her experiences through her very own eyes. This book scared me and made my heart sink with every word. Overall, I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys dark young a...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Syndey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: own, ebook, finished-copy

I want to say upfront that I do not compare books to one another. I don't think that is a fair thing to do. Not for the author nor the novel. However, Lucy in the Sky has been compared to Go Ask Alice by basically saying that it is just a modern day version. That being said, I am going to voice my opinions based on the two books and their similarities.

I really like the message in this book. I always will. I will always stand up for it. I'm not sure I care for how it was delivered. Then again, I...more I want to say upfront that I do not compare books to one another. I don't think that is a fair thing to do. Not for the author nor the novel. However, Lucy in the Sky has been compared to Go Ask Alice by basically saying that it is just a modern day version. That being said, I am going to voice my opinions based on the two books and their similarities.

I really like the message in this book. I always will. I will always stand up for it. I'm not sure I care for how it was delivered. Then again, I am old school. I don't care for text speak and every other word in all capital letters. I felt the MC was a bit over the top in trying to make her point in almost everything she does. This may be typical for, say, an average teen girl. I just didn't buy it. I was annoyed with her and the repetitiveness of her actions that were not relevant to the story.

I think know I would have been happy with the original version of Go Ask Alice. It did not need to be updated for me to understand the message. It is still the same [and always will be] however you rearrange the setting. However, maybe kids these days did/do need it updated so it's more on their level and they can relate better?

It is a shame that children/teens and even adults turn to a substance so that they can feel better about themselves. Maybe even like or believe in him or herself.

There will always be drugs. There will always be peer pressure. There will always be temptation. There will always be curiosity. There needs to be more education, the use of common sense, and willpower, and self-esteem, and the courage to say NO.

I read every single page of this book. Even though I was irritated at some several points. My rating is not deferred by what I did not like because that is my opinion. My rating is based on the message of the book and how it was portrayed and because the situation is not only extremely sad but also one that's very true and a serious reoccurring problem.

I still feel that no matter how it is worded this type of scenario happens every day and my original review for Go Ask Alice will suffice for this book as well. That review can be found here: http://ladysbookstuff.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-go-ask-alice-by-anonymous.html.
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Jan 17, 2013 Maricela Jimenez rated it 5 of 5 stars

i honestly really like this book.
its my perspective this girl has a pretty good life.
she has both her parents.
Her father is a collage professor.
she has an older brother who really cares about her and is over protective.
just as all older brothers tend to be,
and she lives in a house thats by the beach.
so you can say she's pretty wealthy .
then she meets a boy named ross who introduces her to marijuana,
at fist she is like no pot is good but then she gives in.
soon pot is an everyday thing.
then she me...more

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Nov 29, 2012 Madeline added it

Lucy in the sky was a life changing story. It is a real life based story on a girls writing. Telling you about her life in drugs and how they where influenced by bad people who where her friends. Also about how sometimes it doesn't take a lot of peer pressure some just wanna try it and it spins out of control.

She was just a "normal" girl from a caring family. She didn't do anything bad at first just started smoking a little here and there with her friends but that when her life stares changing....more

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Jan 18, 2013 Cecelia Grove added it

WOW. That's really all there is to say about this book.
The book is told in a journal from the perspective of a girl (they never mention her name...which is weird, right, considering she's the main character?)who has lived a good life, and has a good family. But one summer changes it all. She gets involved with drugs and consequently makes decisions that will change her life indefinitely.
I cringed at the "OMG" and "LOL" references in the book, considering most teenage girls don't actually write...more

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Jun 10, 2012 Linzy Stahle rated it 1 of 5 stars

The cover states "In the tradition of Go Ask Alice" when it should say "Practically Go Ask Alice written in exactly the same way with the same ending all over again, but with less consequences." I would be afraid that kids/teens reading this book would just WANT to do drugs because the author makes everything sound fun and exciting! Yes it ends tragically but instead of spending time telling about the recovery process and the awful reprocussions of drug use, most details are about how "incredibl...more

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