YES!
+Genna's longtime crush admits that he's liked her too, but wanted to drop his bad reputation before asking her out.
+Jake has seen Genna at her worst and wants her anyway.
+After mangling her leg, Genna has surgery, her basketball career is over, her grades are suffering, but she finds solace in making out with Jake and popping Vicodin like candy. Drug addiction doesn't have to be hard, street drugs. Prescription medications are just as easily abused, which I think is an important topic.
+This book goes real deep into prescription drug abuse. Not just Genna's physical and mental addiction, followed the withdrawal and rehab. But the social and legal ramifications of her actions. This girl is faced with jail because she visited so many doctors to get refills.

NO!
-Uhhh...I dunno? This book basically confirmed every nightmare I've ever had about painkillers.

Relatable, well written and full of emotions. Genna is a snarky and fun teenager who gets thrown one heck of a curveball her senior year of high school. The story is based around that curveball and how she handles all the ensuing events. This is a YA novel and has some hot topics such as opioid abuse, divorce, and college admission/financial aid stress.

This is my first book that I have read from KH and I enjoyed it. Well paced and entertaining. I enjoyed the detailed perspective that was shown from Genna in terms of her thoughts about the events, talking to her Dad, friend and therapist. I found the details in the nurses, PT, therapy, DA etc. very realistic and helpful to creating a detailed environment for this story. I would recommend this story to others and will look into other books by this author.

Thank you NetGalley and Entangled Teen for the opportunity to review this book and share my opinions.

Just your fun YA contemporary - great characters that are really easy to relate to.

Sidelined by Kendra C. Highley gives a gritty and raw view on the power of addiction. Genna is the star player on her high school basketball team with a promising future in college sports. All that changes one night when she is injured during an accident while playing against a rival team. Her injury killing her dreams of playing ball, and her family falling apart, Genna turns to prescription drugs numb the pain. Her life spiraling out of control Genna finally seeks help after hitting her rock bottom.

This powerful story is about Genna's struggle to overcome her addiction and fight to get her life back. Highley did an amazing job of describing about the bittersweet seduction of the addiction to prescription drugs, with a focus on recovery, withdrawal, and the consequences of illegal drug use.

Sidelined is an emotional and realistic contemporary YA fiction. I would recommend you give it a try.