response on "Lush" by Natasha Friend

Lush By Natasha Friend, Is an extremely amazing book. The main character is so powerful, she goes through MANY problems, and they affect her so much but she deals with them

Her dad is a druggie. He is a drug addict, he is an alcoholic, Sam wakes up every night to something crashing, her dad cursing, going upstairs and screaming at her mom.

At school things are pretty much the same, Her best friend backstabbed her by doing something that changed her reputation in school, she is constantly bullied for her appereance, and called names. She does have friends to back her up, but that doesnt change a thing.

A place Sam feels better is the library. She writes to this mysterious person "AJK" AJK knows everything about Sam, and everything about Sam's life, but Sam has no idea who AJK is.

Then there is the usual love problems. Sam has a crush on this boy at school, he also like her, but the thing he doesnt know is that shes 13 years old and still a child. One night, he got Sam drunk, When Sam was drunk, She managed to mutter "Im a Kid" this is when her relation ship with the guy she likes ends.

The next day at school, she is called names, but nobody knows the truth. Her friends get mad at her because they assume things about her, and then she is left alone.

One day, her father was drunk and smashed a bottle against her baby brother's head, severely injuring him. Her father is sent to a place where druggies are.

Sam forgets her dad for a while

Near the end, Sam finds out about the Mysterious person AJK. Apperently it's someone she would never have imagined. This person brings Sam to her Dad.

I guess i could relate to Sam in a way, we both have brother which we are very self conscious, and we are the same age.

i thought it was amazing how Sam managed to put up with much, Especially when she found out she was a born mistake, which was not true.

Sam has an amazing personality, and Natasha Friend is a really great and descriptive writer