Book review by Brinette Pickett

What would you do if every time you came home with your little sister, your mom’s boyfriend constantly tried to have relations with you and when you told your mother, she didn’t do anything but get mad at you? In this book I just recently finished reading called White Lines, a young sixteen-year-old by the name of Jada and her fourteen-year-old sister Ava, have came into a numerous amount of encounters with their mother’s boyfriend. He’s always drunk and even hits their mother when he’s totally wasted. In a situation like that, what would you do? Like any other right minded person the sisters wanted out and made a pact that at the first chance they see they would leave.
Unfortunately the first chance Ava seen was at the end of a blade. After attempting to tell her mother about her awful encounters with the unwanted man in the house, she cut herself in the bathroom. Jada found her sister on the bathroom floor the next morning and she immediately called the police where after being hospitalized, she was sent to a children’s home where she was reported suicidal. Jada then turned to the life of marijuana. After years of not seeing her mother or sister, she turned to more serious drugs like crack. Her life headed nowhere but downhill until one day she came into contact with her sister.
Ava was doing well while Jada was on the street prostituting and doing drugs. Jada wanted to do right by her sister since she seen how hard it was for Ava to see her that way, so she gave up drugs and later met a guy named Born who she fell in love with. Now I know you’re probably thinking “aww, yay, happily ever after ending” but no, it actually gets even deeper than what it already is but you would have to read it to find out what happens.
I would highly recommend you read this book because it keeps you wanting to read more. Once I got past the first several pages I couldn’t put it down; it’s that good. There were even parts in the story that made me tear up. It’s not one of those Zane books you’re probably thinking of, this book actually has morals and life learned lessons in it. It teaches you the power of drugs and what not to do when you come across some. READ THE BOOK! I promise you won’t be sorry.