Review: LOVED IT!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
I received this ARC from Netgalley for an honest review.Warning.....Does contain a rape scene!!This is the first of 6 novellas chronicling Mia's struggles and triumphs. It says the novellas will be released over the course of a year, tentatively every 2 months (to give you a heads up if you are not a cliffhanger lover)This book is about almost 18 year old Mia Abbott-Renou. She is the youngest daughter of a wealthy politician. When the book starts, Mia decided to go to a party (with a fake ID)instead of an event for her father where she ended up getting drugged and raped by 2 guys. One she knows, Robert Conner, the son of a wealthy man AND one of her fathers most important allies. Mia is found by two police officers, Dom and Keisha, who she feels safe with and insists they stay by her side. Because of this her father sends his attorney, who is also Mia's uncle Chris to see her at the hospital because he is "to busy" to see that she keeps quiet about WHO the person was (grrrrr)The Drs want her to take the morning after pill but her father is against abortion and will not allow it. (He had told Mia in the past that in events like rape, you couldn't get pregnant, so at the time, she isn't really worried about it)My heart breaks for Mia because other than her friend Ari, she is basically alone. Her mother is in rehab because she is an alcoholic and her father is off to busy to come see his own daughter cleaning up the mess of it all.Eventually Mia has to go to the police station for questioning over her fake ID and drinking where she is charged for possession of a fraudulent ID and identity theft because the guy she got the ID from stole it. She is sentenced to do 100 hours community service and to see a counselor. The DA then tells her she will be booked, processed, charged and then released upon telling them who she got the ID from. When she agrees but says she does not want her lawyer present they take her back for questioning. When they go to get on the elevator, the one person she feels safest with and her guardian angel Dom is there. Once in the interview room they also inform her that there have been other rapes by the same 2 men and try to get her to admit who the men are. Once the DA knows he is getting no where he steps out and leaves Dom to see if he can get her to open up which crushes her. She doesn't talk and she can see the disappointment in his eyes but he finally drives her home where he gives her his card and his sisters card at a womens shelter if she ever decides to open up or talk.Once she goes in the house, Chris asks her what kind of community service she wants to do and she chooses to do it at the women's shelter where Dom's sister works. Once she starts, she is not to thrilled with the place but she tries her best. One evening as she is walking down the hall a nurse yells for her to come help her and asks her to take some urine samples up to the next floor for testing. Once she does a nurse named Ricki tells her they are actually urine samples to be tested for pregnancy. When they stick the test strips in all 20 bottles, they all turn pink which means pregnant so they do it over and over again thinking it has to be defective somehow. Finally Ricki tells Mia that they are also gonna try it just to see if they can get different results. Once she sticks her strip in, it turns pink!!! She begins to freak and goes into a closet where she is closing herself off and going into her own little world. She can hear voices trying to bring her out of it but it does no good. Finally, she hears a voice she knows and trust....DOM. Dom drives her home and once they pull in the driveway she sees her daddy's car which is still running so she knows he is planning on leaving so she goes in to confront him. Once she does, she asks him why he lied to her and he wants to know about what and she says about getting pregnant when your raped and her uncle Chris speaks up and says "are you pregnant" and she tells him yes. Her dad says so your going to be a mother and she says NO and he says you know this family doesn't believe in abortion and she says you don't but I can't live with this. He tells her she can't kill an innocent life and she depends to know what about her life, what about the fact that I was raped. He tells her what happened to her is every fathers nightmare but she can't commit another sin by having an abortion and then.................................damn cliffhanger!!!!!What will happen with Mia? Will she have an abortion? Will she finally start the process to put the two who raped her in jail? I can see the connection with Mia and Dom, when she turns 18 will there finally be love for the two of them? OMG, there is so many questions. I need the other books like NOW!!This is a great read, I would def recommend. My only complaint about this book is its just to short.(I think it is about 85 pages)