My Amazon account was hacked and had to be closed. After creating a new account, I lost the arcs on the original account which includes this title.

Thank you so much to net galley for sending me a copy of this book. I was so excited to read this book but I ended up feeling disappointed with it.

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose was nothing short of amazing. It made me cry. It made me laugh. It made me mad. It made me shake my head in disbelief. It walks you through the life of a real teenager dying since the day she was born. I recommend this for everyone, for all can learn a lesson or two from Mary Rose's life. Whether it be the hardships of moving to a new town and making new friends. The tragedy of a life-threatening disease. The devastating effects of drugs and alcohol. The need for children to feel loved, accepted and approved of. The sad reminder that if children don't get it from home, they will look elsewhere. The beauty of love, friendship and forgiveness, and the hurt felt when that isn't provided. The emotional scars bullying can really cause. No matter who you are, there will be something that resonates with you on the deepest level.

I'm sorry it has taken so long to review this title. I absolutely loved it and appreciate being able to have the opportunity to read it. This book was very thought provoking and I can only imagine what more happened to the characters. Thank you.

*****TRIGGER WARNING****** the book mentions addiction, abandonment, rape, abuse, and depression.

This story snuck up and sucker punched me. I was not expecting this to be THIS good. This girl when through a form of hell that most people only read about. She was gang raped, suffered with absent parents, and on top of that had massive medial issues. Nobody should have to go through that much. I found myself wanting to reach out and give her a hug. Especially after her friend, Geoff, was such a dbag to her. He was worthless in every sense of the word.

While I say that, this story is not without its problems. The main thing I had issue with was that the ending is very predictable. It seemed like the author tried too hard to wrap everything up in a nice neat box and it just did not work for me. You can't give me so much bad in a story and then POOF everything is fixed. It doesn't work like that, not even in a work of fiction.

This book is really emotionally beautiful and heartbreaking. I resonated with a lot of the stories as I have had experiences with family members who have experienced similar things and it was just overall beautiful

Mary Rose is the real deal. This is a girl who starts writing her thoughts and feelings in a diary with no intended audience and never with the thought it would turn into a book. Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil took the words of a 15-year-old girl and created a heart-ripping, tear-jerking, compelling story in Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose.
As I started reading this story, I was entrenched in the words of a young girl who was ruled by her addictions. My heart swelled as she told of her inhibitions with boys, but found Mary Rose could battle these fears as soon as the boys offered her an ounce of attention and if the boys had the ability to supply her with alcohol or drugs the fears dissipated altogether. Mary Rose did not, through the 336 pages, feel the guilt I thought she would have; she acts without thinking; she lives in the moment without any inhibitions and truly does what she wants. I have met teenagers like Mary Rose and reading this diary helped me further understand the strong decisions made all while completely unattached from emotion.
Unbeknownst to me, and several chapters deep in the diary, I discovered Mary Rose has Cystic Fibrosis. This disease doesn't seem to be the reason she makes bad decisions, nor does it seem to slow her down or enable any of her life choices. She does not let the disease control her, but allows substance abuse to be the trigger in most of her decisions. She knows she needs to stop, but there are days where the pain is too much for her. I don't know if it was the pain of her disease or the struggle of sobriety. She is brutally honest in her delivery as she never intended for any of us to read her words--even into her death her words are deliberate, raw and honest.
Mary Rose was a selfish, manipulative person as are most who suffer for addictions. They cannot see their decisions reflected in the eyes of those they love---especially when they do not feel they are loved. Mary Rose has an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather and a flux of friendships and not one of them offers the stability required to help her. Mary Rose made me want to slap some sense in to her while also wanting to squeeze her in the largest bear hug I could offer. Although Mary Rose is witty and often clever, there was no laughter in these pages. Her life was anything but funny, but a true story of a teenage girl with addictions.

Dear Nobody was pitched as Go Ask Alice (but not a hoax).
Okay, I loved Go Ask Alice and all of the diaries in the Anonymous series.
Hoax or not, most of them were very believable.
So I expected Dear Nobody to live up to those expectations.
It didn't even come close.
It was ridiculous, not believable in any way, and if any of this was actually happening I'm wondering why in the hell the law wasn't involved.
Dear Nobody focuses on a girl that has CF (Cystic Fibrosis). However, you don't know that until much later in the diary. The diary instead focuses on her drunken nights, fights with her mother, excessive amounts of drugs, and a new crush every other day.
At 14 years old, this girl has lost her mind and there is literally no way she's coming back. Time and time again she complains about how terrible her life is but then also makes note that she really isn't doing anything to change it.
Sympathy is not something I had in any way reading this.
I had no desire to continue reading about Mary Rose.
But I happened to be on a 10 hour flight and brought only this to read.
Please, please, please do not waste time or money on this book.

NetGalley provided me with an e-copy of this book months ago and I just now got around to reading it.

If you want to read published journals that may be a hoax but are much better than this...
Check out:
Go Ask Alice
Jay's Journal
The Book of David
Lucy in the Sky
Letting Ana Go
Calling Maggie May

I only have 3 of them reviewed at the moment, but I will work on getting the rest up soon!!