Edit: Put on hold at 184 pages because I keep moving and losing the book in the process. :(
What I've read is great and I will update this again when I can.

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Disclaimer: Written while still unfinished.

Pretty much all the negative reviews of this are from privileged people, who can't either read or respect Scots as a dialect, who demonize drug users, rape survivors, children in care, and swearing.

I've not been through the same sorts of things as the protagonist, but I felt like her narrative of the world was pretty spot-on. I'm not in and out of jails, but I've been a homeless teenager and I've been that aspect of society that doesn't fit in with the kind of suburbian squares that are complaining of swearing. A lot of teenagers need this voice.

It's a YA novel, and I will die on that hill. Young people live these lives. Why should their experiences be kept isolated from all other children?