Charlie is a girl who has been through it. She has a terrible past and deals with it by harming herself. This self-harm got to a point where she was found wrapped in a sheet, suffering and she had to be put in a facility to help her with her mental health. Charlie’s health is slowly but surely improving, until the funding for her stay runs out and she is sent back to the streets, where she was found. Charlie learns how to live on her own, work as a dishwasher at a coffee shop, and how to manage her feelings for a boy who has issues of his own. Charlie tries to deal with all these things, while trying not to revert to her old ways. Charlie finds this harder than she thought it would be, and even more things change when her friend Blue, who she knew from the treatment center, somewhat literally shows up on her front doorstep.
This was recommended to me by a friend, but I found it a little slow in some parts. I really felt for Charlie and all she was going through, but I would warn anyone that this is very far from a light beach read. In fact, it is the exact opposite. This book was well written to pull on heartstrings, but because of this, I felt it was hard to continue reading for long periods of time. I would recommend it to someone looking for a sad story, but not to someone who is trying to get out of a reading slump.