In the book Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, the main character Alice writes her life down in a diary. She has quite a few friends in the town she was living in in the first part of the book. But later, she has to leave her town and move somewhere else. She doesn't know anyone and doesn’t make very many friends. She becomes good friends with her neighbor and she leaves for summer camp shortly after they meet. Alice is saddened. Some of her old friends called and asked her if she wanted to hang out. She went and while they were there they were playing a game involving soft drinks and one of them was laced with LSD. Shortly after that experience, she started getting involved with drugs and it became a bad addiction for her. She ran away from home and made new friends who sold and did drugs. This all continues throughout the book.

The title of the book, Go Ask Alice, is a good title for this book. The book is about Alice and her drug addiction. She talks a lot about how it is hard for her not to think about drugs all the time. The title is kind of saying to “ask” Alice how she is feeling and what her thoughts are. Since it is her diary, it explains how she is feeling during her whole experience with drugs, her family, and her friends.

There are a lot of characters in the book. The main one is Alice. In the eyes of other people, she seems to be very friendly, popular, and quiet. But when you read her diary, you can see that she has a few other characteristics. She is very secretive. She hides the fact that she uses drugs away from her parents and some of her friends. When Alice is at the doctor’s office, she meets a girl named Doris. She is also 14 and she is a drug addict. But she has it worse than Alice. Doris is an important character because she shows Alice how bad things could be if she continues with her actions. Another character who is important is Joel Reems. Joel doesn’t have a father so both Joel and his mother work a lot. He is accepted by Alice’s parents. He is supportive and very nice to Alice even when she is sent away. He cares about her a lot.

In the book, it says, “This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictiously.” They had to modify the diary to hide their identities and to avoid exposing the locations.

This book was very good. I did enjoy it. I liked how it was a diary because it made it feel more realistic. It also made it scarier because of how bad her drug addiction was getting. My favorite part of the book was the beginning/middle. The beginning tells the reader what her life is like and how her friends and family are. It also tells the reader how she was before she got into drugs. Honestly, I wouldn’t change the book in any way at all. Since it is a diary, I feel like it could be written in any way. If anything was changed, it wouldn’t feel appropriate. The ideas of the book relate a lot to the real world today. A lot of teens these days are starting drugs. A lot of them have addictions and won’t stop. It is a problem and it shouldn’t have to be.

I feel like this book would be aimed more towards teens and young adults. People who like reading diary/memoir type books would like this book. I would recommend this book to others. It is very real and shows how bad things could be for a person. The only problem I had while reading this book was understanding what the different types of drugs were. I feel like I was looking up what the drugs were every 10 seconds.