Five teenagers. Five different addictions. A rehabilitation center. Clean by Amy Reed is a very eye-opening book. It was published in 2011 and is 272 well-written pages. There is no particular reason why I chose this book. When I read the inside cover, it really appealed to me since I had never read a book on this subject, drug rehabilitation.Olivia. She's a quiet, shy girl, addicted to diet pills, who suffers from a severe case of OCD. Olivia is a 17-year-old girl, small, fragile and thin, with long brown hair. She started taking diet pills at the age of 14 because her spiteful mother thought she was too overweight to be part of this perfect, rich family. Olivia hated her mother. Olivia thought she didn't need to be in rehab and should be in school preparing for college. Overall, Olivia is just paranoid. She's paranoid about herself, her friends, her situation, her family, and her OCD doesn't help any of that. The main event that shows that she was paranoid throughout the book is when at the end she has a seizure due to so much anxiety and tension that has built up over time. No one ever really understood Olivia. The way she spent hours fixing up her room, moving everything an inch to the left and then a little more to the right, bothered everyone. People also didn't understand why she broke the rules, when over time she had to do her schoolwork. Most of the time, people didn't understand why she didn't want to eat. Eating is what you need to live, why would she want to make herself suffer. But what they didn't understand was that starving himself was his drug. Everyone was addicted to cocaine or alcohol, but she was addicted to not eating. Olivia was a very stressed girl and never let anything out... middle of paper... to stay sober. They decided they would stay in touch and support each other even though they were no longer in rehab with each other. The theme of this book could also be a source of inspiration in our lives, telling us that when you are at your lowest, all you can do is get back up. I really enjoyed reading Clean by Amy Reed. I was able to see the journey of an addict and all the ordeals he had to go through. Reading about it made me realize that I shouldn't take drugs, because even after using them once, like some of the characters in this book, I could become addicted to them. I have also noticed that people who are addicted to drugs are unhappy. Many addicts want to quit and try too, but it's just too much for them to handle. With deep, sympathetic characters and a beautiful writing style, Clean gets to the heart. It's poignant, real and just a very moving book.