She had just turned sixteen and begun journaling when her life started to take a turn. Introduced to a new party crowd, she started joining in, first with a few drinks and smoking some pot, but things changed radically and quickly got out of control. More drugs, more serious drugs, family troubles, friendship troubles, academic troubles and eventually legal troubles all start to add up and take a toll. Her journal openly and honestly chronicles all the details that led her to a very dark and dangerous place.

Extremely similar to Go Ask Alice in both content, style, and tone, Lucy in the Sky also tells a cautionary tale, through journal entries, of a downward spiral into drug use and addiction. Teens use drugs to excess, including marijuana, alcohol, hash, cocaine, ecstasy, crystal meth, and heroin. Excessive drug and alcohol use leads to a DUI, a stint in rehab, and attendance at twelve-step meetings. Nudity, making out, an incidence of date rape, as well as consensual teen sex all take place, and several characters are openly homosexual. Language is graphic. Engaging and very quick to read, the message behind this story is a valuable one--that of a good girl who made some very poor choices and who sadly dies of a drug overdose following her last journal entry.

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