Lucy in the Sky

Published by Tantor Media, Inc

Narrated by Em Eldridge

A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal.

The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life . . . but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste-and liked it. Really liked it.

Social drinking and drugging lead to more, faster, harder . . . She convinced herself that she was no different from anyone else who liked to party. But the evidence indicates otherwise: Soon she was she hanging out with an edgy crowd, blowing off school and everything she used to care about, all to find her next high.

But what goes up must come down, and everything-from her first swig, to her last breath-is chronicled in the diary she left behind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Oct 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781515949497

Reviews for Lucy in the Sky

[loveydoveybooks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As seen on WovenMyst.com - a YA MagazineA novel similar to Go Ask Alice, Lucy in the Sky chronicles the story of a 16 year old girl whose life is turned inside out by the pressure of drugs and alcohol. Her battles are many and her victories are temporary as she struggles through the pangs of adolescence.Reading her journal and not knowing her name seems like a breach of privacy, but the story pulls and tugs until its message is clear. The narrator has an average life with caring parents and brother, but her social life is a void she aches to fill. Enter Ross, Lauren, Ian, and Blake; the friends who fill the friendship void the summer before her junior year and introduce her to a world of parties and good feelings.The small band of friends experiment with drugs as if it were a harmless hobby. A line is drawn at the more lethal drugs until the bands of peer pressure, being one of the gang, tighten and squeeze every ounce of resistance out of the narrator. Not wanting to feel like the only one not having ‘fun’ fuels her dark determination, even when her friends up the ante with the worst of drugs imaginable.Lucy in the Sky tells a story in which readers will feel the roller coaster waves of emotion. Pride that the narrator makes friends, hope that she’ll just say no, and a little anger, sadness, and disappointment from the consequences of her actions. To experience Lucy in the Sky is to experience a darker side of YA realistic fiction. 

[jclheatherm · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

There are plenty of comparisons between Lucy's story in 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and Alice's in 'Go Ask Alice'. Both teens were relatively young and innocent before their first sample with the drug of choice; both girls were introduced to drugs through a friend; neither story ends very well for the titular character, who meets an untimely fate after losing her battle with substance abuse. 'Alice' may be seen as more pioneering given when the book was written, but there are lessons to learn from both books.

[shahnareads · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

"Smoke us out" is not a freakin term. I hate it! Every time she said it. gah

I think the author is trying too hard to sound like a teenager. Go Ask Alice was a million times better.

I like it, but some phrases made me mad. And her death is so freakin sudden. Like wtf. There was no real build up. She wasn't falling apart. She was otherwise healthy.

blurg

[prescottkris · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Super abrupt ending.

[amydross · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Built on the model of Go Ask Alice, and covering much the same territory, but lacking the offbeat weirdness of that narrative. Remember the part when Alice runs away to San Francisco and starts a successful jewelry store, against all odds? Nothing that unlikely happens here, with the result that the story is numbingly predictable: girl tries a drug to fit in, has a good time, then has a bad time, swears off drug. Girl tries different drug to fit in, has a good time, has a bad time, swears off drugs. Escalate from alcohol to pot to acid to coke to e to meth to smack until suitably tragic end has been achieved. Fin.

[justablondemoment · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a modern version of "Go Ask Alice" which was an awesome book. I'm not sure this book lived up to it. I remember reading it and was stunned this updated version didn't give me that same feeling. Maybe it's just because I'm way older and have experienced more so the downward spiral of someone in the throes of addiction doesn't shock me as it did when I read the other book. I was just barely a teenager then and ,at the time,very innocent to the partying crowds. I did find the book did a fantastic job moving from the seventies into today's times. Well done and, as with "Go Ask Alice" was to us girls then a required.. look before you leap.. reading so should this book be for today's young girls on the edge.