Clean: The London Collection

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Besonders gut gefallen hat mir ihre Rückkehr ins Leben; ihren alltäglichen Kampf damit ihrer Sucht zu widerstehen. However, it wasn’t addictive in the most important way, the way where you want to keep reading because the story is so good.

This is a YA novel about a teenage girl named Lexi, who comes from an incredibly rich and privileged background. It did take me a little while to get into the book as I can’t say I was overly fond of the main character, Lexi, to begin with. Tread carefully as this is a book that deals with many mental illnesses such as ODC, anorexia, overeating and drug abuse.If you’re currently going through this or in are recovery please be aware this book may be quite triggering. Und ich fand’s toll, dass Dawson auch viele Therapiegespräche eingebaut hat, dass sie überhaupt im Großen und Ganzen einen positiven Klinikaufenthalt eingebaut hat – aber letztendlich war es mir dann doch ein bisschen zu too much. Gerade, weil Lexi mit Ko-Abhängigkeit in Beziehungen kämpft und das auch großer Teil ihrer Therapie ist.

And so much of it felt like name dropping - people, brands, places, it felt like the reader was supposed to care and I just didn’t. The main character, Lexi, is a super rich, white and priviliged piece of trash when we first meet her.

I’d also recommend this novel for fans of Junk by Melvin Burgess and the Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison.

One of the greatest quotes in Clean has to be 'Why can't we be honest and say 'drugs are boss until you almost snuff it, your brother abducts you and you start shitting the bed'? So erfahren wir von dem trans Mädchen Kendall, die an Magersucht leidet; oder von Ruby, die esssüchtig ist. It’s great that a YA book delves into addiction and getting clean as I don’t think this is spoken about enough to younger people. She is astutely aware of the fact that she lives a privileged life and the benefits that come from having to never worry about money, even down the luxurious rehab that she had access to, and this is written in such a way that it feels honest in her awareness and her limited ability to fully comprehend this. The story opens with her brother checking her into rehab, or rather a treatment institution that deals with a variety of addictions.Door de cover hoopte ik een boek te lezen dat mij zou shockeren, mij zou verbazen en buiten de YA lijntjes zou kleuren. Was Juno Dawson mit Clean versucht hat, ist bewundernswert, und schwierig, und daher überrascht mich dieser Kritikpunkt nicht weiter: Zwar wird die Geschichte aus Lexis Perspektive erzählt, die unfreiwillig in die Therapie gesteckt wird, aber auch die Schicksale ihrer Mitpatient*innen gehen nicht spurlos an Lexi und den Leser*innen vorbei.