Marlena was a roller coaster of emotions for me.

It is such a beautiful coming-of-age story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Cat who recently moved to Silver Lake and befriended this girl named Marlena.

Marlena is a rebellious teenage girl who does everything from smoking, doing drugs and every possible badass and rebellious teenage girl would do.

Cat slowly became used to everything Marlena does and soon they became best friends. However, after moving away again, her and Marlena drifted apart until one day, Marlena was found dead.

I wasn’t a fan of Part I of the book because I kind of feel like the present point of view and flashback point of view was a bit mixed up and sometimes got me confused.

But Part II is where my liking for this book builds up because I can understand the story better because of how the POVs are focused seperately.

Nevertheless, this is a good book. I thoroughly enjoyed it despite my slow reading process.