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    Roxy
    Roxy
    Roxy
    Audiobook10 hours

    Roxy

    Written by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

    Narrated by Neal Shusterman, Michael Crouch, Megan Tusing and

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    From the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Dry comes a “gritty and unflinching” (Booklist) thriller that proves when gods play games, even love is a lie.

    The freeway is coming.

    It will cut the neighborhood in two. Construction has already started, pushing toward this corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the momentum of the inevitable. Yet there you are, in the fifth house on the left, fighting for your life.

    Ramey, I.

    The victim of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), who is at the top of her game, and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall), who is tired of being the helpful one, and longs for a more dangerous, less wholesome image. The wager—a contest to see who can bring their mark to “the Party” first—is a race to the bottom of a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. And you are only human, dazzled by the lights and music. Drawn by what the drugs offer—tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful…and the troubled places that lie beyond.

    But there are two I. Rameys—Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy’s orbit by a bad fall and a bad doctor and Ivy, his older sister, whose increasing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy.

    Which one are you?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 9, 2021
    ISBN9781797133416
    Author

    Neal Shusterman

    Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of more than fifty books, including Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award; Scythe, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Dry, which he cowrote with his son, Jarrod Shusterman; Unwind, which won more than thirty domestic and international awards; Bruiser, which was on a dozen state lists; The Schwa Was Here, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award; and Game Changer, which debuted as an indie top-five best seller. He is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for the body of his work. You can visit him online at storyman.com.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to have a well-written narration, but some have concerns about the portrayal of drug addiction. The book explores the story of a teen with ADHD who becomes addicted to drugs, which some readers find to be a negative message. The world of drugs and the party scenes are not well-developed, and some characters lack depth. However, the book does create suspense around the death of a Ramey sibling. Overall, the book has mixed reviews and may not appeal to all readers.

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    • 1/5
      The narration was great and the book was well-written, however the message of a teen with ADHD who was reluctant to begin taking Adderall in the first place (and who is actually helped immensely by the drug in the beginning) becoming an addict is a horrible one. The implication that taking Adderall for an already stigmatized disorder is a gateway to crystal meth was absolutely absurd, and I only finished this book to make sure it didn’t somehow redeem itself. (Spoiler: it didn’t!)

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    • 4/5
      I need to think things before I can live again
    • 4/5
      Wow! This book is an incredible, tragic ride. It was hard to follow who all the "drug" characters were though. You really need to know the world of drugs to actually "get" Roxy. I have little experience, except that my dad is a pharmacist, so I felt lost in the drug world and lingo. I was still captivated by the story though. I'm not sure who the target audience is, druggies aren't known for their taste in literature and families that have been impacted by drug addiction would likely struggle to read the book.
    • 3/5
      It sure was an interesting concept but executed quite poorly. I felt like painting the drugs as sympathetic characters might have undermined the central message that drugs are bad. Also the whole party thing was really weird, the world building for that part was not well thought out especially considering how much time the characters spent at the party. Plus the characters of ivy and Issac weren’t fully fleshed out enough, they didn’t talk like teenagers, and the dialogue felt forced when I heard the voice actors read it. The only reason I actually continued to listen to the book is because I wanted to know which Ramey sibling dies in end as stated in the beginning of the book. I felt like though that without this poorly written method of suspense the book would not stand on its own though. Overall I would say that I was not glad I read this book but I wasn’t angry either. It was an interesting thought experiment that probably did not warrant its own book. But still I’m a huge Neal Shusterman fan and can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.