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A review by kitvaria_sarene
You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow
5.0
You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow is a fantastic story about drug addiction, and how it affects everyone around the addicted person as well.
I loved how this was told from the sisters POV, which still lets the reader see the struggles and problems, but it also gives a new way of thinking about this topic, a bit differently to what I read in other books before.
Glasgow, who it says in the epilogue is a recovered addict herself, clearly knows what she is writing about, so the book felt neither too hard and depressing, but neither did it play down the serious impact addiction has not only on the person themselves, but on their friends, family, classmates and so on. However, this is not teh only thing going on obviously, as they also have their own problems and struggles as well, which might be connected to the addiction, or be normal problems for that age group.
It also managed to really hit the tone and voice of actual teens very well, when a lot of books hit the mark, and feel like an adult who tried to sound like a teen.
A wonderful read I will happily recommend!
I loved how this was told from the sisters POV, which still lets the reader see the struggles and problems, but it also gives a new way of thinking about this topic, a bit differently to what I read in other books before.
Glasgow, who it says in the epilogue is a recovered addict herself, clearly knows what she is writing about, so the book felt neither too hard and depressing, but neither did it play down the serious impact addiction has not only on the person themselves, but on their friends, family, classmates and so on. However, this is not teh only thing going on obviously, as they also have their own problems and struggles as well, which might be connected to the addiction, or be normal problems for that age group.
It also managed to really hit the tone and voice of actual teens very well, when a lot of books hit the mark, and feel like an adult who tried to sound like a teen.
A wonderful read I will happily recommend!