One upcoming tv show caught my attention, and it's named Recovery Road.Recovery Road talks about a biracial seventeen years old girl, Maddie Graham, who is an alcoholic (and actually used drugs) yet she doesn't understand the gravity of her situation. After being caught red-handed, she has to go living in a rehab treatment center for 90 days, and by day go to school. Of course it's not a masterpiece but it is kinda cute to watch.Obviously, when I discovered that this story was a book first, I decided to read it andNow that I've actually read it, I can say something:1) this book is not at all like the tv show2) the book is very lameWhite and spoiled Madeline goes to rehab and the whole situation lasts fifty pages. It's unbelievable how can someone recover so fast. In those fifty pages, there's an irritating insta-love (view spoiler)[at least Maddie gets smart and goes on with her life, not caring too much about the guy (hide spoiler)]

Recovery Road

"He holds me. I am his in a way he probably isn't even aware of. Boys shouldn't know what power they have. They would panic probably or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents or your teachers or your "future". You give yourself to a boy. And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end." (p.106)  A very moving heart-wrenching story of first love between two recovering teenage alcoholics. Well worth reading. 4 1/2 stars  "You can change things. You can repair mistakes. You can restart your whole life if you have to. But some things you never get back. Certain people. Certain moments in time when you didn't know better than to shield your heart. You don't see those moments coming, you don't know it when they're happening, but later, as the plainness of life begins to show itself, you realize how important they were. You understand who really changed you, who made you what you are." (p.310)

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