A delightfully dark and angry coming of age story perfect for all the kids who grew up mad at the world. Bailey is brutally honest about the cruelty amongst classmates while brilliantly underscoring that the violence in classrooms doesn't simply appear out of thin air. It's too often that YA fiction highlights only the nice kids, so much so that even the flawed kids are hardly flawed. But Erdbeere allows Adriana to be angry, to be mean, to be hateful. It allows us to see where this kind of anger comes from. But most of all it reminds us that no matter where our anger comes from, if we let hatred bury itself too deeply in our hearts, we hurt ourselves more than anyone else.