A coming of age novel about a gang and their 'property', the girls who do their bidding. Violence and drugs are the norm. The 'heroine' who is an outsider at the start makes a play for the gang leader, and actually gets him - but life with a violent drug-addict is not what she wants, and to our relief, she's finally able to turn her life around. Depressing and claustrophobic.
Apparently Alice Hoffman has written many better novels than this one - I shall look forward to exploring some of them. ( )

Mmmmm. This book was strange. I liked the story, but when it started I wasn't sure what type of book it was. A boy named Danny the Sweet and a candy store. So I couldn't really buy in to the danger, even the involvement in drugs and murders had an innocence - maybe not really the word I want - to it. A good story about a girl who gets what she wants and comes to realize that it's not what she wanted after all. ( )