Dear Cassie by Lisa Burstein

Dear Cassie

by Lisa Burstein

What if the last place you should fall in love is the first place that you do?You'd think getting sent to Turning Pines Wilderness Camp for a month-long rehabilitation "retreat" and being forced to re-live it in this journal would be the worst thing that's ever happened to me.You'd be wrong.There's the reason I was sent to Turning Pines in the first place: I got arrested. On prom night. With my two best friends, who I haven't talked to since and probably never will again. And then there's the real reason I was sent here. The thing I can't talk about with the guy I can't even think about.What if the moment you've closed yourself off is the moment you start to break open?But there's this guy here. Ben. And the more I swear he won't--he can't--the deeper under my skin he's getting. After the thing that happened, I promised I'd never fall for another boy's lies.And yet I can't help but wonder...what if?

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I thoroughly enjoyed Dear Cassie, the companion novel to Pretty Amy. The story is told through Cassie's reflection journal, her inner most fears and self hatred. It's in between the young and new adult genres, as Cassie subtly self harms, commonly uses F*@K in most of her sentences (not uncommon for most teens) and it deals also with darker issues that can be confronting. The growing friendship between Cassie and Ben is surprisingly gentle and sweet.

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