I looked up the reviews of it and that plus my very disjointed memories suggests you're spot-on.
As a teenager I had poor boundaries and an excessive desire to fix my broken friends and I think Lisa Bright and Dark fed into this, but I think you're probably correct that this wasn't really the fault of the book and more an illustration of how YA books sometimes feed precisely the stuff they're trying to warn against (see also: every eating disorders novel ever, and Thirteen Reasons Why).
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Date: 2019-05-02 02:54 pm (UTC)As a teenager I had poor boundaries and an excessive desire to fix my broken friends and I think Lisa Bright and Dark fed into this, but I think you're probably correct that this wasn't really the fault of the book and more an illustration of how YA books sometimes feed precisely the stuff they're trying to warn against (see also: every eating disorders novel ever, and Thirteen Reasons Why).