I didn’t know what to expect when beginning to read this novel for myself. I mainly started to read it for closure, having been assaulted myself around Melinda the main character’s age. And then again a couple months ago. It brought me joy to follow her through her journey, and gave me hope that I’ll be ok eventually. Even though things are bad right now it will get better.

will never get over this book , i love it so much . i first read it in middle school , my teacher was a huge bookworm and had a huge shelf that ran along one of the walls of the classroom and i had read almost every book in there to the point where she started bringing me books from her personal library at her home and recommending others to get at the local library (she convinced me to get a library card!) and this and “skinny” were one of them and i fell in love. its such a good read, makes me sad when i have to put the book down!! i’ve read it more than plenty of times and it never gets boring and never will and i will definitely read it 100 times more! i just recently found out a movie was made from this book and almost cried!! thank you for this book :)

I love this book and I relate bc I had a boyfriend and I was raped in the back of his car and he was doing this for 3 years and I finally got away from him and I found this book.

I LOVEEE AND HATE THIS BOOK. I love this book because it makes me feel like i’m not alone and that i wasn’t the only one thinking this way when it happened to me. i hate it because the ending is too short and i feel like a little more could have been added to extend the ending, but besides that 10/10!!!

This book saved me in so many ways.

real and i could not put it down

I love this and the way it was written so much I literally don’t see anything wrong with it probably my most favorite book ever

I hope someday someone will see this. I was in 7th grade being raped everyday by my boyfriend for 4 months. it was the hardest thing to deal with. my teachers and police knew and everything. one day my teacher came up to me and handed me this book and for that he will always be my favorite teacher of all time. i thank him so very much for giving me this amazing book that is so touching and very relatable. Thank you Mr. Kane.

Meh

This book was amazing and touching to the heart.