Description: Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one — she’s the star player on her AAU basketball team, she gets good grades, she dates a cute soccer player, and she tries to help out at home. Not like her older sister, Carla, who leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when both sisters are caught up in a drug deal — wrong place, wrong time — it falls to Sadie to confess to a crime she didn't commit to keep Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care. Sadie is supposed to get off with a slap on the wrist, but somehow, impossibly, gets sentenced to six months in juvie. As life as Sadie knew it disappears beyond the stark bars of her cell, her anger — at her ex-boyfriend, at Carla, and at herself — fills the empty space left behind. Can Sadie forgive Carla for getting her mixed up in this mess? Can Carla straighten herself out to make a better life for Lulu, and for all of them? Can Sadie survive her time in juvie with her spirit intact?
Review: I bought this book not knowing if I would enjoy it after reading reviews of other readers. Some voiced how there are aspects from Orange Is The New Black but I don't see it, except for maybe the drugs part. This book basically evolves around what happens when Sadie is in juvie, how she handles it and becoming friends with the right people. Would you do time for your sisters crime? I don't really think that Sadie had that much of a choice, Carla basically coaxing her into it, using her daughter as the reason why she couldn't go to jail, who Sadie happens to adore would obviously alter Sadie's decision about letting Carla take the fall. I did however, enjoy the book but not as much as I thought I would. This is a type of book that I would class as easy reading, something that you could read in a day or a couple and is quite fast paced, the book only showing the first 3 months of her sentence. I like how the author used a wide range of different characters when it came to who she was with when in juvie, that she shouldn't trust what anyone says even though they seemed as if they were being genuine and what would happen if they lost something unimportant like a spork. I wouldn't exactly say this book is filled with emotions and would have liked it more if the author included what happened to the jelly sisters and Chantrelle as it was if they completely disappeared, what happened when Sadie left juvie and if she ever talked to Kevin again. Overall, I would give this book 3.5 stars, enjoyed it but not a book I would read again in the near future.
