The adult characters are stereotypical, but somehow Jenna remains believable. A testament to the author's writing skill is the unanswered question: Was Anderson genuinely in love with Jenna or was he a sexual predator? The multiple issues and dysfunctions may be difficult for some readers to follow. Anderson saves Jenna from drowning, but knowingly sacrifices himself. Her chemistry teacher befriends her, Jenna is attracted to him, and they enter into a sexual relationship she learns he has a history with 'troubled' female students.
Jenna is a cutter and recently discharged from a mental institution. Her father is a bully and a womanizer her mother drowns her feelings with alcohol her step-grandfather sexually abused her as a child. "Sixteen-year-old Jenna Lord has just enrolled in a new school. Nevertheless, she manages to avoid the didactic and dramatizes dysfunction and disorder in ways that will attract readers and offer opportunities for classroom discussion." - Booklist ( Journal) Bick, a child psychiatrist, writes about dysfunction with a professional's insight, and she goes to great pains to create believable characters―too much so, making the novel excessively long. Jenna's gratitude turns quickly to love and things get.complicated. Jenna is figuratively drowning in disorder until she enrolls in a new school and meets her chemistry teacher, a caring man who strives to help her. To make things even worse, she cuts herself. Her homelife isn't much better: she calls her plastic-surgeon father 'Psycho Dad,' her mother abuses alcohol, and her beloved older brother and only confidant is in Iraq. Badly burned in the fire that destroys her grandfather's house, she subsequently suffers a breakdown and is briefly institutionalized. "At 16, Jenna Lord has suffered enough misfortune to last a lifetime.
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