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A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis - the deadliest drug epidemic in American history - through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction, family, friendship, and hope.
When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there.
The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good.Â
With a new circle of friends - fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill - Mickey finds peaceful acceptance and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue.
But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.
Read Online Heroine Audible Audio Edition Mindy McGinnis Brittany Pressley HarperAudio Books
"The first sentence of this book spoils it's own ending. It tells you exactly where Mickey's story is going. But really it doesn't spoil anything. I couldn't stop turning pages, unable to look away as Mickey spiraled further and further down into addiction."
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Heroine Audible Audio Edition Mindy McGinnis Brittany Pressley HarperAudio Books Reviews
- Mickey fractures her hip just a few months before senior year softball season. After one prescription of OxyContin, she’s hooked. Good thing she has it under control. She’s not an addict like Josie, the girl who gives her pills. She can stop any time she wants. Mickey just needs to be ready for spring training. She’d never crush and snort the pills. Until she does. She’d never mix them with water and shoot them into her veins. Until she does. She’d never switch to heroin. She can stop any time she wants.
HEROINE sent chills through my body from start to finish. I wanted to climb into my and stop Mickey from taking that first extra pill. I was the kid who listened to the Don’t Do Drugs lectures and took them seriously. I tell doctors I don’t want pain meds after surgery. I make the nurses remove the morphine drip the minute I’m lucid. I don’t fill pain med prescriptions. I’ve never had a substance abuse problem because Mickey is my nightmare. I’m lucky those lectures scared me so much, because I can see myself, in Mickey’s shoes, becoming her.
Mindy McGinnis has her pulse on the heart and mind of a teen who falls into addiction. She’s seventeen. Goal oriented. Softball. College scholarship. She knows her body better than the doctors the way most teenagers know more than adults. Nothing bad will happen because bad things happen to other people. Addiction happens to other people.
HEROINE should be required reading for teenagers, their teachers, coaches and parents. Anyone could become Mickey. Those of us who don’t have more fortunate DNA and get scared by cautionary tales. We are the lucky ones. - "There is no hurt, there is no fear, there is no stupidity of awkwardness. I am beautiful to these people and I want to share this warmth with them, press their hands to my skin and let them feel what I feel, absolute acceptance and love."
TW Addiction, Death, Overdosing, Needles, Addictive behavior and thoughts,
Our heroine, Mickey didn't ever expect to fall into drugs. She was a girl who was clean and played for her Varsity Softball team. She already had college scouts looking at her. She was an all star and she was so passionate about her sport and would let nothing come between her and her love of that sport. Not even the pain of a car accident, that left screws in her hip. She needed baseball like she needed air; so she decided that she needed to take Oxycontin to get through the pain so that she could continue to belong to her team.
This highlighted so many aspects of addiction and was not an easy book to get through emotionally. Mindy McGinnis made this feel so real. The fact that we had an all star Varsity Softball highschooler as our Heroine only contributed to the fact addiction can happen to anyone. This was the perfect main character to highlight how easy it can be to fall into such a destructive habit.
This allowed you to feel and see both sides of the argument clearly. You saw a girl who was fighting for her friends that she had before something happened that changed her life and you saw how alienated she was and how desperate she was to keep up with a social group that was physically more able than she. You saw a destructive habit that allowed her to continue with her old life, and how easily she could justify it. You understood her completely and you loved her, but you also saw her falling into something that became completely out of her control. You saw a desperate girl who loved a sport, and loved the life she still tried to exist in even after her accident. You saw what desperation do can to someone's life when it becomes more than what you originally loved. You saw a girl who believed everything was just fine........ until suddenly it wasn't.
This was heartfelt and so honest. I loved it, and while it was emotionally challenging to read, I flew through it's pages feeling as though I was on this spiral downward with Mickey. I needed to finish it to see where our Heroine ended her journey. - As I started this book i was expecting very little. I was so wrong. The story is written from the POV of the addict and the attention to detail was right on. I too am a recovering addict for 16 years. I related so well to this character and the despair. Definitely worth reading
. - Mindy knows how to pack a punch, and this book is no exception. Truthful, chilling, engaging, important.
- The first sentence of this book spoils it's own ending. It tells you exactly where Mickey's story is going. But really it doesn't spoil anything. I couldn't stop turning pages, unable to look away as Mickey spiraled further and further down into addiction.
- If you enjoy young adult books with serious topics this is a must read! Absolutely amazing story with a focus on substance abuse! Such a well written book that it makes for a very fast read! I Highly recommend!
- Every parent out there needs to read this book, ESPECIALLY any parent who is reading this review and thinking, “Nah, this wouldn’t happen to my kid.†The opioid crisis is real, it is everywhere, and affects everyone who knows or loves an addict. This book tells a story about a young girl who started off with hopes and dreams, and until she found opioids, she was well on her way to realizing those dreams. It’s so realistic that I wanted to jump into her world and try to save her from making bad decisions. I also think that after parents have read this book, they may want to consider sharing it with their teens. It’s a heavy and dark subject (and yes, there’s some profanity) but heroin is a dark place, the epidemic is real, and it’s in our back yards. I bought this book today and read the whole thing...I had to know what was going to happen. Kudos to the author for writing a book that not only keeps you turning the pages, but is also an eye-opener on a topic that can’t, and shouldn’t be ignored.
