This book was way better than I thought. It captivated you from the start all the way until the end. Highly recommend. I was new to this author but I really enjoyed their writing style! It was a breath of fresh air. This book also dealt with a couple of hard topics so make sure it is going to be right for you before reading it.

Anna is a teenage prostitute living in New York until she’s arrested and sent home with her parents. Having left home at 13, Anna has a lot of catching up to do at school so her parents’ first ruling upon her return is that she must get back to school as soon as possible. I feel a bit torn over Naked because, although Stacey Trombley does a good job of exploring the idea that you can never really leave your past behind, a lot of this story just doesn’t feel authentic. If you really had run away from home for three years and you had very rich parents, I highly doubt sending you back to public school would be at the top of their list. Anna’s relationship with Luis also makes me raise my eyebrows: at the start of the story she defends him wholeheartedly because she says he’s never done anything wrong to her and that he saved her from a life on the streets, but later she admits that he both a) sold her and b) hit her, so I can’t imagine her feeling that loyal to him after those experiences. I didn’t feel strongly either way so I decided to sit in the middle on three stars, but I do wonder if I’m being generous.