Shortcomings

I feel the shortcomings of this book is the dialect of which it is written. The dialect leads to me to have minor doubt in the truth of the story. If you were to read an average teenage girl's diary you would find opinions on school, boys, other girls, etc... During this book her diary entries are freakishly on topic the whole time. The book, rarely goes off on a discussion outside of drugs. How can it be possible that a teenage girl doesn't have a crush or hates homework. It maybe that other topics were eliminated during the publication process.  However, I feel that had there been dialect relevant to her thoughts on things other than drugs it would be more true to life.