Clean by Amy Reed

Difficulty level (easiest to hardest) - 2

Emotional level (least to most) - 3

Action (little to a lot) - 1.5

Clean is a novel about a handful of misfit teens who spend a month in an adolescent drug rehabilitation center. The novel is written from the perspective of their diary entries and answers to drug use/abuse questionnaires. I liked the novel somewhat, but found that it was lacking in depth. I would have thought that a 300+ page novel could have gone into further depth of the individual characters. Maybe the author bit off more than she could chew with developing so many characters (I can think of 5 characters which needed to be developed more). 

I thought that Amy Reed did a satisfactory job of explaining how drug use/abuse affects individuals and families, and I thought that this was a better novel than How I Made it to Eighteen, but less descriptive than A Million Little Pieces. 

I would recommend this book to someone who wanted to read about drug use/abuse from a rehab perspective, but didn't want to get into the characters' heads. 

Overall rating (poor to excellent) - 3

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