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Finished Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers for the New Author Challenge.
I got this because a lot of book bloggers were raving about it, and I enjoyed it.
According to the back of the book:
"When `Perfect' Parker Fadley starts drinking at school and failing her classes, all of St. Peter's High goes on alert. How has the cheerleading captain, girlfriend of the most popular guy in school, consummate teacher's pet, and future valedictorian fallen so far from grace?
Parker doesn't want to talk about it. She'd just like to be left alone, to disappear, to be ignored. But her parents have placed her on suicide watch and her counselors are demanding the truth. Worse, there's a nice guy falling in love with her and he's making her feel things again when she'd really rather not be feeling anything at all.
Nobody would have guessed she'd turn out like this. But nobody knows the truth.
Something horrible has happened, and it just might be her fault."
Totally disregard. It's much better (and different) than that would have you believe.
Parker seems like she was always a mean girl, but lately she's gotten meaner. She does drink and she has started skipping classes (and homework, although that probably goes without saying). She's pretty awful to essentially everyone in her life.
I don't think it's a spoiler to say that she has a pretty big secret, and I thought I had that secret totally pegged, but I was wrong.
I'd definitely recommend this.
And to back me up, here's the beginning:
"Imagine four years.
Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled food, theft, fights, broken limbs, turf wars--every day, a turf war--six months until graduation and no one gets a medal when they get out. But everything you do here counts.
High school."
