This novel was a bit hard to read because of the incest-rape and abuse. But, from someone who has read a bunch of sexual abuse stories, I think this captured the character reactions from someone who was raped quite perfectly. Usually, the character is just sad in the aftermath. But Jamie was: scared...
She has a baby in her cart. He’s sitting in the baby seat like he’s supposed to be, his curly blonde hair like a halo, his soft baby legs dangling, one chubby little hand holding the railing in front of him, the other clutching a piece of Red Vine licorice. He’s looking at me, his face and hands coa...
BrokenI loved you as a child loves strong.You used me, beat, done me wrong.I cower, for I am in fear, of others who won't be so dear.I'm broken, just a hollow shell.I'm in hell, hell, hell.I found love, but can't express myself.He loves me more than he loves himself.He broke me again to make whole.P...
This book was just emotionally draining, but underneath the horrific subject matter of this book is a beautiful love story. Be warned that the graphic, horrifying child abuse that is portrayed made the book very hard to read.The story is told in alternating POV's of Jamie and Tammy from the time th...
This book was just emotionally draining, but underneath the horrific subject matter of this book is a beautiful love story. Be warned that the graphic, horrifying child abuse that is portrayed made the book very hard to read.The story is told in alternating POV's of Jamie and Tammy from the time th...
Overall I thought it was a good book about really horrible things, in addition to really good things like enduring love and friendship, finding yourself and overcoming the utter shit life throws at you. I feel it could have been shorter, as the story overall dragged out a bit. It's the same I often ...
3.5 stars. Finished this at last, it was a long, hard slog. The book is overlong and needs some severe editing. Tells the story in the first person alternately from Tammy (pronounced Temmy) and Jamie's pov from toddlers to their thirties. Jamie was horribly abused as a child and Tammy to a lesser ex...
3.5 starsWow, the blurb doesn’t even begin to cover it.The beginning: Hold on. This is an unbelievably grim, wrenching depiction of two very young boys in extreme, brutal abuse and neglect at the hands of their parents and family. Some people should never have kids. If you can make it past these ea...
It was a good story, heartwrenching and all. Seriously. The topic is hard, and it was not easy to read about it for me, it was disturbing. But something just felt off. I really didn't like the writing. There is a trap in alternating POVs - I'm tired of reading about the same situation/day in differe...
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