Whereas Isaac is a kid with prospects, Ivy knows that her mum and dad have all but given up on her. Isaac tells himself that it’s just until his ankle heals, but he likes the way they make him feel so numb and as Roxy gets her claws into him, he begins to depend on her more and more.
Unfortunately, with his ankle too painful to walk on, playing soccer in any of the remaining games of the season is pretty much out of the question … Until Isaac’s grandmother offers him one of her oxycodone pills to get over the worst of the pain. Fortunately, he’s also captain of the school soccer team and while he’s not good enough to get a scholarship, if he attracts a college recruiter, that may be enough to tip him into a school like MIT or CalTech. Isaac is a kid with prospects – smart and athletic, he wants to be a propulsion engineer for NASA but his grades aren’t quite good enough to make the best colleges. So when 17-year-old Isaac Ramey twists his ankle when he’s attacked by his older sister Ivy’s waster boyfriend Craig, while trying to rescue her from a party, Roxy knows she’s found someone special. Addison may be a loser who has never taken any of his plus-ones to the VIP-room (they always fall prey to the other drugs in his family and leave him) but seeing him fail will be amusing and maybe when he does, he’ll learn to be happy with his place. Highly addictive, she makes people prone to overdosing, which is when she takes them to the VIP room of the Party that all of the gods of addictive substances attend, staying with her victims until the very end.īut even a good-time-girl like Roxy who lives in the moment can get bored sometimes and so when Addison (the personification of Adderall) proposes a wager, she’s intrigued. Roxy is a goddess, the anthropomorphic personification of oxycodone.
I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can order ROXY by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. Thanks to Walker Books for the review copy of this book. ROXY was released in the United Kingdom on 11th November 2021. This is the start of a race to the bottom that will determine life and death.
Isaac is desperate to recover from a sports injury that jeopardises his chance of a scholarship. Ivy is understimulated and over medicated. Roxy and Addison have made a wager to see who can be lethal the quickest. But here they are malevolent gods, toying with the fates of mortals. Humans know the partygoers simply as “narcotics”, “opioids”, “drugs”. Above our world is a toxic wonderland where the party has raged for centuries.
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