Ask Me How I Got Here

by Christine Heppermann

Addie has always known what she was running toward. In cross country, in life, in love. Until she and her boyfriend her sensitive, good-guy boyfriend are careless one night and she ends up pregnant. Addie makes the difficult choice to have an abortion. And after that even though she knows it was the right decision for her nothing is the same anymore. She doesn t want anyone besides her parents and her boyfriend to know what happened; she doesn t want to run cross country; she can t bring herself to be excited about anything. Until she reconnects with Juliana, a former teammate who s going through her own dark places.

• ISBN10: 0062387952
• ISBN13: 9780062387950
• Publish Date: 3 May 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 240
• Language: English

Reviews

[whisperingchapters]

This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.


I'm a reader that loves free verse. I love Ellen Hopkins books and when Ask Me How I Got Here started, it sounded like an EH book so I was very excited and I even said so on a Goodreads status update when I started the book. I'm sorry to say that this story is pointless. It started off as if it was going to go somewhere and then it fell flat with nothing to go on. I feel like I wasted my time with this one.

As I mentioned, this story started so promising and then it plummeted right after. Addie was a character I had no sympathy for. She was awful most of the time and didn't really care for anyone but herself. I was hoping for her to grow as the story went on, but she kept getting worse in my opinion. The rest of the characters were no better but I can't really speak much for them since they didn't make much of an appearance. And when they did, they didn't impact me in any way.

One thing I love about free verse is the beautiful writing. I'm sorry to say this story lacked big time in having a great writing. I was left very disappointed on this end. As you guys know, I'm bad at DNF'ing a book but it came to a point where I wanted to stop reading and forget about this book. I couldn't deal with it at all. It took me 8 days to finish a book of free verse that has 240 pages... That's a lot for me.

Overall, I wouldn't recommend this story. Sadly, I have nothing positive to say except that it has a very strong beginning but you all know what happens after.

I received an eARC from the publisher for free in exchange for an honest review.This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.

[shannonmiz]

You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight
I feel bad saying I hated this book but... I hated this book. Now, I was able to find a few things I did like, so that's good?

Thing 1: It did deal with tough issues, and that is always important.

Thing 2: It took me about 45 minutes to read, and who doesn't love that?

Thing 3: Some of the poems were pretty clever.

So what made this not work for me?

First, while it deals with tough topics, it deals with wayyy too many of them. It's almost like someone was playing Tough Topics Bingo™ and really wanted to win cover-all. Which is great, except this book is incredibly short and in verse (which makes it even shorter) and you simply cannot cover that many topics in any amount of depth. So I felt like I was watching an After School Special on fast-forward. I didn't have time to care about most of what was happening before we were moving on to a new thing. And some of it didn't even make sense or feel authentic to the start of the story, especially the end.

I also could not have cared less about the main character. Actually, maybe that isn't true. I can't quite decide if I didn't like her, or was apathetic toward her, but regardless, I couldn't connect to her in any way.

Bottom Line: I know a lot of people did like this, so maybe it is a "me" thing? So if it sounds like your kind of thing, it could still be worth a shot- plus, it's short if you don't like it ;)

**Copy provided by publisher for review