Smoke: How a Small-Town Girl Accidentally Wound Up Smuggling 7,000 Pounds of Marijuana with the Pot Princess of Beverly Hills

I gave this 5 stars solely for its category and marked style, which I believe accomplished all that the author intended it to. I happened upon Meili' s housearrestgirl blog by accident and was fascinated. I also being in a situation that I'd never see myself in, totally related to her writings on her blog, and her positive outlook to make the best and most of it. I also enjoyed her humor and sometimes sarcasm at times, as well. Her book was promoted at the end, so I got it. I'm glad I did. I love that 'transparency' is honored, for the most part, in our day. I also felt that she grew and has turned back around for the better coming out stronger and wiser. Her family has been amazing and supportive, and my goodness, "hello" Harper Collins published her book !!... Cheers to you Meili for a great and awesome outcome and future in your life.I also love to write and have been writing my own experience, so she is/was inspiring, for me and for many I'm sure. I saw another posted review saying that back in their day they laid low and hid such things. They seemed irritated that she is making money on a book about her experience, etc...which I saw as a shame. Perhaps that person might look a bit deeper into some unexpected challenging things they may have found themselves in, in their life. Perhaps if someone would've been brave enough to open up and talk about those things it may have helped that person. It's so easy to be judgmental for all of us, it takes discipline to see similarities vs our differences in others.I once read by a famous author, that we read to know that we're not alone...I think it helped Meili to write during her situation and I'm certain it was cathartic and healing to write the blog and then her book.It's why we write.Blessings to you Meili !!! 🍃🙌🏼💚

Great, exciting, true crime page-turner. Best I've read in a long time! This book would make a great lifetime movie.

fast read amazing someone could be duped to the extent the author was

Wonderful book!

This book is a different take on the classic drug thriller, it has a teen girl trendy vibe, yet it still was a great read that kept me entertained until the end. A good beach read!

The book was OK, just OK. There were a few grammatical errors and missing words that I noticed on my kindle version of the book, not sure if they are in the printed book as well. The story was interesting and it was a decent, quick read, nothing special. I found out about this book in Cosmo magazine and heard it was good so I gave it a shot.

I read the unpublished version so idk how much of a difference that makes but the character came off as unbelievably naïve and her story, though initially intriguing, seems to betray the reader when the truth is revealed with flat affect and no real growth or revelation. Boring but couldnt stop reading for some reason.

This is Ralphie's wife. I like true crime stories. Usually. I love Orange is the New Black and this is nowhere near it. Smoke is a story about what a person did to end up arrested. It is not a story about inside a woman's prison. The story and the characters are simplistic. Even, when the main character keeps reiterating how naive she is, it stretches one's credulity. This young woman, Meili, moves to California to follow her dream of acting. She has friends who just seem to pop into her life, the book giving no description of how they met. Then, she meets this Lissette character who seems, almost from the start, to have personality difficulties, but our girl stays with her - why, you may ask? Well, she has lots of money - might be an answer. They vow friendship with each other that is unlike any friendship I have had. You ask yourself, 'Are they gay, perhaps?' Or, maybe our heroine knows more than she lets on, and they are making a good living as partners in crime? Anyway, our little Meili, in the book, appears as a sort of groupie to this other women.Something that I also find unbelievable is why, when asked to flow money through her bank account, Meili does not just refuse. You see, 'normal' friends do that sort of thing. We all have barriers. Then, there is the time when she sees all that cash in luggage that they are moving - why didn't she just walk out? I would have gone to the cops with no problem at all. I would have realized I was being used and that the operation might not have been legal and asked the authorities to investigate. That Meili tolerated all of this makes you wonder at her upbringing.Maybe her acting training helped her to lose her interface with reality and lose the concept of what a solid and healthy friendship feels like. The book, to me, gives no good reason why she stuck with the drug smuggler other than she was getting money from it. At least her boyfriend, at the end, wanted no part of a felon, and I don't blame him.This is a quick book to get through and might be entertaining for beach or airplane reading. It in no way inspires thought and gives little insight to why a 'good' person goes bad. I probably would not have bought it, had I known what it was like.

This book is terrible don’t waste your time.