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Heroine

By: Mindy McGinnis
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
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A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis - the deadliest drug epidemic in American history - through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction, family, friendship, and hope.

When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she’s ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she’s been prescribed can help her get there.

The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good.

With a new circle of friends - fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill - Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue.

But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.

©2019 Mindy McGinnis (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers
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AMAZE!

Mindy McGinnis never disappoints. Both the story and narrator are great! A very nuanced and graceful take on addiction and the opioid crises.

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Good. Just not my thing.

Read it for book club. It’s a good book club book. It’s be good for teenagers. I don’t identify with this story. And it’s too predictable. It’s not fresh.

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Heroine

The title drew me in, and I wasn’t disappointed in the double meaning. The author took me on a trip that so many have experienced. The storyline helped me understand how easily drug abuse can happen.

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Breath Taking

Wow.... this book was unbelievably good. I think this should be mandatory reading in school. Brittany was absolutely the best auditor for this. So worth every penny you spend on this book.

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Intense.

Emotional right from the first line. The research is spot-on, characters as well. Brittany, who's become one of my favorite narrators, knocks it out of the park, yet again. Glad the only pills I take are sinus or allergy ones.

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Powerful

Mickey fractures her hip just a few months before senior year softball season. After one prescription of OxyContin, she’s hooked. Good thing she has it under control. She’s not an addict like Josie, the girl who gives her pills. She can stop any time she wants. Mickey just needs to be ready for spring training. She’d never crush and snort the pills. Until she does. She’d never mix them with water and shoot them into her veins. Until she does. She’d never switch to heroin. She can stop any time she wants.

HEROINE sent chills through my body from start to finish. I wanted to climb into my Kindle and stop Mickey from taking that first extra pill. I was the kid who listened to the Don’t Do Drugs lectures and took them seriously. I tell doctors I don’t want pain meds after surgery. I make the nurses remove the morphine drip the minute I’m lucid. I don’t fill pain med prescriptions. I’ve never had a substance abuse problem because Mickey is my nightmare. I’m lucky those lectures scared me so much, because I can see myself, in Mickey’s shoes, becoming her.

Mindy McGinnis has her pulse on the heart and mind of a teen who falls into addiction. She’s seventeen. Goal oriented. Softball. College scholarship. She knows her body better than the doctors the way most teenagers know more than adults. Nothing bad will happen because bad things happen to other people. Addiction happens to other people.

HEROINE should be required reading for teenagers, their teachers, coaches and parents. Anyone could become Mickey. Those of us who don’t have more fortunate DNA and get scared by cautionary tales. We are the lucky ones.

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Great Story

A little slow at times but overall really well written. It is a very serious topic and can be really hard for people who have experienced drug use in real life.

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Cuts you deep

All I have to say is that this audiobook is amazing. It's so real and heartbreaking that I couldn't stop listening. I had to binge the entire book in one day.

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great book

it says it require fifteen words to be submitted but I dont wanna do that so like uh "it made me cry" that's what I wanted to say

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PERFECT

I loved this book! I wish there was a part 2. definitely recommend it

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