" This was a well written book about some challenging and scary issues for a teenage girl: one parent's addiction and illness, the other's emotional withdrawal, and when a terrible community tragedy is added to the mix, Sam must deal with feelings of suspicion, trust, questions of faith, isolation, and independence. The story is fraught and intense, and I wish more communication between the characters could have happened, but that teenage reticence (not limited to the teenages here, by any means) is all part of the package. "
— Shauna, 2/19/2014