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Obviously, her parents are divorced, so things didn't go well with their marriage.The previous summer, a court-ordered visit sent her on an ill-fated summer visit to see her dad. Kristina now hits the throwback button and tells us a little about how this whole situation got started.Bree's not an imaginary friend or a hallucination or a Three Faces of Eve kind of deal she's just the person Kristina becomes when she's not quite interested in being her good girl self.

As if she can read our minds, Kristina reassures us that she's totally not psychotic.

Okay, wait a minute… What's going on here? Is Bree an alter ego? Does Kristina have schizophrenia? What kind of narrator are we dealing with here, really?.

She tries to remember the first time she remembered feeling her presence and says she calls upon Bree when life for Kristina gets a little too overwhelming.

Kristina imagines that even before the events of this tale unfolded, Bree was always there in some way.

Still, Kristina's obviously sick of her own perfect, gifted and talented persona, and Bree seems to be her antidote of choice.

She's crude, obscene, not a great student, and isn't quite all there mentally speaking.

Bree pretty much sounds like the opposite of Kristina.

Having gotten the fam out of the way, Kristina tells us about the person inside of her, whom she likes much better than who she really is: Bree.

Combine that with some messed up authority figures and you get a home life that doesn't look pretty. She also has two siblings-an older sister, Leigh, who's a lesbian, and a younger, extremely spoiled little brother named Jake.She doesn't have a great relationship with her mom, who is going through some kind of midlife crisis, or her stepfather, who holds really high standards for her and really just stresses her out. Kristina tells us a little about her family, and it sure doesn't sound happy.Dude-we're only a few pages in and it already sounds like things haven't gone well.She also alludes to the fact that her actions have caused a lot of grief for a lot of people.Kristina offers to tell us the real story behind her walk off the deep end, withholding zero of the sordid details. Since we're going to spending somewhere around five hundred pages with her, let's get to know our main character a little better.Kristina opens up our story by telling us the before and after of her relationship with "the monster." Things were good, but the drug made it better.