Counting Backwards

Taylor Truwell has a neglectful, drunk mother and a callous father who left her mother. Taylor is also part Seminole. She tried to run away but caught. In the process of running away she stole a car and ended up being paroled to the custody of the Sunny Meadows Theraputic Boarding School.

She meets Kalya who is an intern-in-residence and Margo, her peer intervention helper. She meets Charlotte who is a patient what screams when Margo enters her room. She also learns about the safeties who are primarily guards.

Brandi is another girl she meets and she's a total bitch. The place has a school and shows motivational films and lectures. She meets some of the boys include one named A.J. Taylor sets up an elaborate escape plan that would possibly have worked but she's betrayed by someone at the school.

She has to figure out whether to continue to fight the system or to act as if she's surrendered to it so she can maybe get out earlier. Either way there are problems to solve, but one choice might change her in a manner so profound that she could deal with life outside. The other path could lead to even bigger problems.

It's an extremely well done story and reminds me a little of Girl, Interrupted, although there are differences, but the two both deal how a young girl who has a whole lot of problems in her life that she didn't really cause has to deal with going through a system that could be meant to help her, or could be just a 'reducation' approach in the worst form of the word.

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